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The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known as "glitches", can impact signal detection in various ways.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Neev Shah , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , David Stenning

Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptible to background noise, which can obscure these signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Harsh Narola , Stefano Bromuri , R. Lyana Curier , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill , Daniel Stanley Tan

Glitches are non-Gaussian noise transients originating from environmental and instrumental sources that contaminate data from gravitational wave detectors. Some glitches can even mimic gravitational wave signals from compact object mergers,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tabata Aira Ferreira , Gabriela González

The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough in our comprehension of the Universe. However, due to the…

Despite achieving sensitivities capable of detecting the extremely small amplitude of gravitational waves (GWs), LIGO and Virgo detector data contain frequent bursts of non-Gaussian transient noise, commonly known as 'glitches'. Glitches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Sofia Alvarez-Lopez , Annudesh Liyanage , Julian Ding , Raymond Ng , Jess McIver

Data from gravitational-wave (GW) detectors often contains a high rate of non-Gaussian transient noise, known as glitches. The parameters estimated from GW signals coinciding with detector glitches are occasionally biased away from their…

Anomaly detection is a classical but worthwhile problem, and many deep learning-based anomaly detection algorithms have been proposed, which can usually achieve better detection results than traditional methods. In view of reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Chunkai Zhang , Shaocong Li , Hongye Zhang , Yingyang Chen

In recent years, much work have studied the use of convolutional neural networks for gravitational-wave detection. However little work pay attention to whether the transient noise can trigger the CNN model or not. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-08 Chao Zhan , Mingzhen Jia , Cunliang Ma , Zhongliang Lu , Wenbin Lin

Gravitational wave astronomy is a rapidly growing field of modern astrophysics, with observations being made frequently by the LIGO detectors. Gravitational wave signals are often extremely weak and the data from the detectors, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-31 Hongyu Shen , Daniel George , E. A. Huerta , Zhizhen Zhao

In the field of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers, the most severe limitation to the detection of transient signals from astrophysical sources comes from transient noise artefacts, known as glitches, that happens at a rate around $1$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Stefano Schmidt , Sarah Caudill

The gravitational-wave (GW) detector data are affected by short-lived instrumental or terrestrial transients, called glitches, which can simulate GW signals. Mitigation of glitches is particularly difficult for algorithms which target…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Sophie Bini , Gabriele Vedovato , Marco Drago , Francesco Salemi , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

We present an application of anomaly detection techniques based on deep recurrent autoencoders to the problem of detecting gravitational wave signals in laser interferometers. Trained on noise data, this class of algorithms could detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Eric A. Moreno , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maria Spiropulu , Bartlomiej Borzyszkowski , Maurizio Pierini

LIGO and Virgo recently completed searches for gravitational waves at their initial target sensitivities, and soon Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will commence observations with even better capabilities. In the search for short duration…

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We introduce the variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE), a framework for unsupervised learning on graph-structured data based on the variational auto-encoder (VAE). This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Thomas N. Kipf , Max Welling

The noise of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers limits their sensitivity and impacts the data quality, hindering the detection of GW signals from astrophysical sources. For transient searches, the most problematic are transient noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Kerwin Buijsman , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill

Broadband frequency output of gravitational-wave detectors is a non-stationary and non-Gaussian time series data stream dominated by noise populated by local disturbances and transient artifacts, which evolve on the same timescale as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-27 P. Bacon , A. Trovato , M. Bejger

We present a new method for the classification of transient noise signals (or glitches) in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. The method uses learned dictionaries (a supervised machine learning algorithm) for signal denoising, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

We present a method to identify and categorize gravitational wave candidate triggers identified by matched filtering gravitational wave searches (pipelines) caused by transient noise (glitches) in gravitational wave detectors using Support…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Zach Yarbrough , Andre Guimaraes , Prathamesh Joshi , Gabriela González , Andrew Valentini

We propose a robust variational autoencoder with $\beta$ divergence for tabular data (RTVAE) with mixed categorical and continuous features. Variational autoencoders (VAE) and their variations are popular frameworks for anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Haleh Akrami , Sergul Aydore , Richard M. Leahy , Anand A. Joshi

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of contemporary Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architectures employed in anomaly detection, elucidating their performance and behavioral characteristics within this specific task. The…

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