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Outliers widely occur in big-data applications and may severely affect statistical estimation and inference. In this paper, a framework of outlier-resistant estimation is introduced to robustify an arbitrarily given loss function. It has a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-20 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , Jiahui Shen

This paper introduces a novel family of outlier detection algorithms based on Cluster Catch Digraphs (CCDs), specifically tailored to address the challenges of high dimensionality and varying cluster shapes, which deteriorate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Rui Shi , Nedret Billor , Elvan Ceyhan

Outlier detection refers to the identification of rare items that are deviant from the general data distribution. Existing approaches suffer from high computational complexity, low predictive capability, and limited interpretability. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-04 Zheng Li , Yue Zhao , Nicola Botta , Cezar Ionescu , Xiyang Hu

Unsupervised outlier detection constitutes a crucial phase within data analysis and remains a dynamic realm of research. A good outlier detection algorithm should be computationally efficient, robust to tuning parameter selection, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-23 Sheikh Arafat , Na Sun , Maria L. Weese , Waldyn G. Martinez

The presence of outliers is prevalent in machine learning applications and may produce misleading results. In this paper a new method for dealing with outliers and anomal samples is proposed. To overcome the outlier issue, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Parsa Bagherzadeh , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

Outlier detection and cleaning are essential steps in data preprocessing to ensure the integrity and validity of data analyses. This paper focuses on outlier points within individual trajectories, i.e., points that deviate significantly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mariana M Garcez Duarte , Mahmoud Sakr

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) Detection aims to separate the samples falling outside the distribution of training data without label information. Among numerous branches, contrastive learning has shown its excellent capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Menglong Chen , Xingtai Gui , Shicai Fan

The presence of outliers can prevent clustering algorithms from accurately determining an appropriate group structure within a data set. We present outlierMBC, a model-based approach for sequentially removing outliers and clustering the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-30 Ultán P. Doherty , Paul D. McNicholas , Arthur White

Object detection is a pivotal task in computer vision that has received significant attention in previous years. Nonetheless, the capability of a detector to localise objects out of the training distribution remains unexplored. Whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Toby P. Breckon

Reliable outlier detection in high-dimensional data is crucial in modern science, yet it remains a challenging task. Traditional methods often break down in these settings due to their reliance on asymptotic behaviors with respect to sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-05 Seong-ho Lee , Yongho Jeon

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is important for machine learning models deployed in the wild. Recent methods use auxiliary outlier data to regularize the model for improved OOD detection. However, these approaches make a strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Julian Katz-Samuels , Julia Nakhleh , Robert Nowak , Yixuan Li

Circle fitting methods are extensively utilized in various industries, particularly in quality control processes and design applications. The effectiveness of these algorithms can be significantly compromised when the point sets to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ahmet Gökhan Poyraz

High-dimensional data poses unique challenges in outlier detection process. Most of the existing algorithms fail to properly address the issues stemming from a large number of features. In particular, outlier detection algorithms perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Firuz Kamalov , Ho Hon Leung

This paper proposes a novel fast online methodology for outlier detection called the exception maximization outlier detection method(EMODM), which employs probabilistic models and statistical algorithms to detect abnormal patterns from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Zhikun Zhang , Yiting Duan , Xiangjun Wang , Mingyuan Zhang

Handling out-of-distribution (OOD) samples has become a major stake in the real-world deployment of machine learning systems. This work explores the use of self-supervised contrastive learning to the simultaneous detection of two types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Charles Guille-Escuret , Pau Rodriguez , David Vazquez , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Joao Monteiro

No matter the expressive power and sophistication of supervised learning algorithms, their effectiveness is restricted by the features describing the data. This is not a new insight in ML and many methods for feature selection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Albrecht Zimmermann

Outlier detection amounts to finding data points that differ significantly from the norm. Classic outlier detection methods are largely designed for single data type such as continuous or discrete. However, real world data is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-18 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

A recent popular approach to out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is based on a self-supervised learning technique referred to as contrastive learning. There are two main variants of contrastive learning, namely instance and class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Nawid Keshtmand , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Jonathan Lawry

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is important for deploying reliable machine learning models on real-world applications. Recent advances in outlier exposure have shown promising results on OOD detection via fine-tuning model with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianing Zhu , Geng Yu , Jiangchao Yao , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Bo Han

Machine learning and data analysis have been used in many robotics fields, especially for modelling. Data are usually the result of sensor measurements and, as such, they might be subjected to noise and outliers. The presence of outliers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Francesco Cursi , Guang-Zhong Yang