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We devise an autoencoder based strategy to facilitate anomaly detection for boosted jets, employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to do so. To overcome known limitations of GNN autoencoders, we design a symmetric decoder capable of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Oliver Atkinson , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Christoph Englert , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

We leverage representation learning and the inductive bias in neural-net-based Standard Model jet classification tasks, to detect non-QCD signal jets. In establishing the framework for classification-based anomaly detection in jet physics,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-26 Taoli Cheng , Aaron Courville

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

We focus on a specific use case in anomaly detection where the distribution of normal samples is supported by a lower-dimensional manifold. Here, regularized autoencoders provide a popular approach by learning the identity mapping on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexander Bauer , Shinichi Nakajima , Klaus-Robert Müller

Machine learning techniques in particle physics are most powerful when they are trained directly on data, to avoid sensitivity to theoretical uncertainties or an underlying bias on the expected signal. To be able to train on data in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

Autoencoders have been proposed as a powerful tool for model-independent anomaly detection in high-energy physics. The operating principle is that events which do not belong to the space of training data will be reconstructed poorly, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-06 Joshua Batson , C. Grace Haaf , Yonatan Kahn , Daniel A. Roberts

Designing model-independent anomaly detection algorithms for analyzing LHC data remains a central challenge in the search for new physics, due to the high dimensionality of collider events. In this work, we develop a graph autoencoder as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Jack Y. Araz , Dimitrios Athanasakos , Mateusz Ploskon , Felix Ringer

Anomaly detection is the problem of recognizing abnormal inputs based on the seen examples of normal data. Despite recent advances of deep learning in recognizing image anomalies, these methods still prove incapable of handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nina Shvetsova , Bart Bakker , Irina Fedulova , Heinrich Schulz , Dmitry V. Dylov

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging task. Autoencoders (AEs) or generative models are often employed to model the data distribution of normal inputs and subsequently identify anomalous, out-of-distribution inputs by high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yalin Liao , Austin J. Brockmeier

The production of dark matter particles from confining dark sectors may lead to many novel experimental signatures. Depending on the details of the theory, dark quark production in proton-proton collisions could result in semivisible jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-14 Florencia Canelli , Annapaola de Cosa , Luc Le Pottier , Jeremi Niedziela , Kevin Pedro , Maurizio Pierini

This study explores the potential of unsupervised anomaly detection for identifying physics beyond the Standard Model that may appear at proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a novel quantum autoencoder circuit ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Callum Duffy , Mohammad Hassanshah , Marcin Jastrzebski , Sarah Malik

Anomaly detection refers to the task of finding unusual instances that stand out from the normal data. In several applications, these outliers or anomalous instances are of greater interest compared to the normal ones. Specifically in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Deep autoencoder has been extensively used for anomaly detection. Training on the normal data, the autoencoder is expected to produce higher reconstruction error for the abnormal inputs than the normal ones, which is adopted as a criterion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Dong Gong , Lingqiao Liu , Vuong Le , Budhaditya Saha , Moussa Reda Mansour , Svetha Venkatesh , Anton van den Hengel

In the recent times, autoencoders, besides being used for compression, have been proven quite useful even for regenerating similar images or help in image denoising. They have also been explored for anomaly detection in a few cases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Shruti Mittal , Dattaraj Rao

Autoencoders are neural network formulations where the input and output of the network are identical and the goal is to identify the hidden representation in the provided datasets. Generally, autoencoders project the data nonlinearly onto a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Debjani Bhowick , Deepak K. Gupta , Saumen Maiti , Uma Shankar

Autoencoder reconstructions are widely used for the task of unsupervised anomaly localization. Indeed, an autoencoder trained on normal data is expected to only be able to reconstruct normal features of the data, allowing the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David Dehaene , Oriel Frigo , Sébastien Combrexelle , Pierre Eline

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Autoencoders are certainly among the most studied and used Deep Learning models: the idea behind them is to train a model in order to reconstruct the same input data. The peculiarity of these models is to compress the information through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gabriele Martino , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

In the hunt for new and unobserved phenomena in particle physics, attention has turned in recent years to using advanced machine learning techniques for model independent searches. In this paper we highlight the main challenge of applying…

Pathological anomalies exhibit diverse appearances in medical imaging, making it difficult to collect and annotate a representative amount of data required to train deep learning models in a supervised setting. Therefore, in this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu