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With increasing scale and complexity of cloud operations, automated detection of anomalies in monitoring data such as logs will be an essential part of managing future IT infrastructures. However, many methods based on artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Alexander Acker

Semantic segmentation networks have achieved significant success under the assumption of independent and identically distributed data. However, these networks often struggle to detect anomalies from unknown semantic classes due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Liangyu Zhong , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Hanno Gottschalk

Log analysis is one of the main techniques that engineers use for troubleshooting large-scale software systems. Over the years, many supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised log analysis methods have been proposed to detect system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Log data anomaly detection is a core component in the area of artificial intelligence for IT operations. However, the large amount of existing methods makes it hard to choose the right approach for a specific system. A better understanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Odej Kao

Log messages are now widely used in software systems. They are important for classification as millions of logs are generated each day. Most logs are unstructured which makes classification a challenge. In this paper, Deep Learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Amir Farzad , T. Aaron Gulliver

Due to the dynamic nature of human language, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems need to continuously acquire new vocabulary. Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) words, such as trending words and new named entities, pose problems to modern ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Effective anomaly detection from logs is crucial for enhancing cybersecurity defenses by enabling the early identification of threats. Despite advances in anomaly detection, existing systems often fall short in areas such as post-detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Zhuoran Tan , Qiyuan Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Shameem P. Parambath , Jeremy Singer , Sam Temple

Log anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying system failures and preempting security breaches, detects irregular patterns within large volumes of log data, and impacts domains such as service reliability, performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shenglin Zhang , Ziang Chen , Zijing Que , Yilun Liu , Yongqian Sun , Sicheng Wei , Dan Pei , Hailin Li

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

The reliability of cloud platforms is of significant relevance because society increasingly relies on complex software systems running on the cloud. To improve it, cloud providers are automating various maintenance tasks, with failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Li Wu , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Log-based anomaly detection is a essential task for ensuring the reliability and performance of software systems. However, the performance of existing anomaly detection methods heavily relies on labeling, while labeling a large volume of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Pei Xiao , Tong Jia , Xin Zhang , Zhewei Zhong , Xiang Luo , Yan Niu , Lingzhe Zhang , Yifan Wu , Siyu Yu , Weijie Hong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Identification of anomalous events within system logs constitutes a pivotal element within the frame- work of cybersecurity defense strategies. However, this process faces numerous challenges, including the management of substantial data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zeng Zhang , Wenjie Yin , Xiaoqi Li

The identification of undesirable behavior in event logs is an important aspect of process mining that is often addressed by anomaly detection methods. Traditional anomaly detection methods tend to focus on statistically rare behavior and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kiran Busch , Timotheus Kampik , Henrik Leopold

Logical image understanding involves interpreting and reasoning about the relationships and consistency within an image's visual content. This capability is essential in applications such as industrial inspection, where logical anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Er Jin , Qihui Feng , Yongli Mou , Stefan Decker , Gerhard Lakemeyer , Oliver Simons , Johannes Stegmaier

Network log data analysis plays a critical role in detecting security threats and operational anomalies. Traditional log analysis methods for anomaly detection and root cause analysis rely heavily on expert knowledge or fully supervised…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xuanhao Luo , Shivesh Madan Nath Jha , Akruti Sinha , Zhizhen Li , Yuchen Liu

Log parsing transforms raw logs into structured templates containing constants and variables. It underpins anomaly detection, failure diagnosis, and other AIOps tasks. Current parsers are mostly reactive and log-centric. They only infer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiaqi Sun , Wei Li , Heng Zhang , Chutong Ding , Shiyou Qian , Jian Cao , Guangtao Xue

Deep learning (DL) based language models achieve high performance on various benchmarks for Natural Language Inference (NLI). And at this time, symbolic approaches to NLI are receiving less attention. Both approaches (symbolic and DL) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zeming Chen , Qiyue Gao , Lawrence S. Moss

Nowadays large computers extensively output logs to record the runtime status and it has become crucial to identify any suspicious or malicious activities from the information provided by the realtime logs. Thus, fast log anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yifei Lin , Hanqiu Deng , Xingyu Li

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Existing Log Anomaly Detection (LogAD) methods are often slow, dependent on error-prone parsing, and use unrealistic evaluation protocols. We introduce $K^4$, an unsupervised and parser-independent framework for high-performance online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weicong Chen , Vikash Singh , Zahra Rahmani , Debargha Ganguly , Mohsen Hariri , Vipin Chaudhary