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Predictive machine learning models generally excel on in-distribution data, but their performance degrades on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. Reliable deployment therefore requires robust OOD detection, yet this is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 David Graber , Victor Armegioiu , Rebecca Buller , Siddhartha Mishra

Weighted Outlier Detection is a method for identifying unusual or anomalous data points in a dataset, which can be caused by various factors like human error, fraud, or equipment malfunctions. Detecting outliers can reveal vital information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ravindrakumar Purohit , Jai Prakash Verma , Rachna Jain , Madhuri Bhavsar

Outlier detection, crucial for identifying unusual patterns with significant implications across numerous applications, has drawn considerable research interest. Existing semi-supervised methods typically treat data as purely numerical and}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Baiyang Chen , Zhong Yuan , Dezhong Peng , Hongmei Chen , Xiaomin Song , Huiming Zheng

We introduce an online outlier detection algorithm to detect outliers in a sequentially observed data stream. For this purpose, we use a two-stage filtering and hedging approach. In the first stage, we construct a multi-modal probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Mohammadreza Mohaghegh Neyshabouri , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

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

This note investigates the problem of detecting outliers in longitudinal data. It compares well-known methods used in official statistics with proposals from the fields of data mining and machine learning that are based on the distance…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-30 Marcello D'Orazio

We propose an inlier-based outlier detection method capable of both identifying the outliers and explaining why they are outliers, by identifying the outlier-specific features. Specifically, we employ an inlier-based outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Makoto Yamada , Song Liu , Samuel Kaski

Outlier detection algorithms typically assign an outlier score to each observation in a dataset, indicating the degree to which an observation is an outlier. However, these scores are often not comparable across algorithms and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philipp Röchner , Henrique O. Marques , Ricardo J. G. B. Campello , Arthur Zimek , Franz Rothlauf

Using the intuition that out-of-distribution data have lower likelihoods, a common approach for out-of-distribution detection involves estimating the underlying data distribution. Normalizing flows are likelihood-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Seyedeh Fatemeh Razavi , Mohammad Mahdi Mehmanchi , Reshad Hosseini , Mostafa Tavassolipour

With predictive models becoming prevalent, companies are expanding the types of data they gather. As a result, the collected datasets consist not only of simple numerical features but also more complex objects such as time series, images,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Dariusz Brzezinski

Functional linear regression is a widely used approach to model functional responses with respect to functional inputs. However, classical functional linear regression models can be severely affected by outliers. We therefore introduce a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-02 Harjit Hullait , David S. Leslie , Nicos G. Pavlidis , Steve King

Outlier detection is a fundamental task in data mining and has many applications including detecting errors in databases. While there has been extensive prior work on methods for outlier detection, modern datasets often have sizes that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Laure Berti-Equille , Ji Meng Loh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Malicious PDF files have emerged as a persistent threat and become a popular attack vector in web-based attacks. While machine learning-based PDF malware classifiers have shown promise, these classifiers are often susceptible to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Side Liu , Jiang Ming , Guodong Zhou , Xinyi Liu , Jianming Fu , Guojun Peng

Addressing the Out-of-Distribution (OoD) segmentation task is a prerequisite for perception systems operating in an open-world environment. Large foundational models are frequently used in downstream tasks, however, their potential for OoD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nazir Nayal , Youssef Shoeb , Fatma Güney

Deep neural networks have demonstrated great generalization capabilities for tasks whose training and test sets are drawn from the same distribution. Nevertheless, out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a challenging task that has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

Unsupervised outlier detection, which predicts if a test sample is an outlier or not using only the information from unlabelled inlier data, is an important but challenging task. Recently, methods based on the two-stage framework achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

Outlier detection is a critical task in data mining, aimed at identifying objects that significantly deviate from the norm. Semi-supervised methods improve detection performance by leveraging partially labeled data but typically overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Baiyang Chen , Zhong Yuan , Zheng Liu , Dezhong Peng , Yongxiang Li , Chang Liu , Guiduo Duan

Outlier detection is a well-researched and crucial problem in machine learning. However, there is little research on string data outlier detection, as most literature focuses on outlier detection of numerical data. A robust string data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Philip Maus

Diagnosing the changes of structural behaviors using monitoring data is an important objective of structural health monitoring (SHM). The changes in structural behaviors are usually manifested as the feature changes in monitored structural…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-14 Xinyi Lei , Zhicheng Chen , Hui Li , Shiyin Wei

Anomaly detection in real-world scenarios poses challenges due to dynamic and often unknown anomaly distributions, requiring robust methods that operate under an open-world assumption. This challenge is exacerbated in practical settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Dayananda Herurkar , Sebastian Palacio , Ahmed Anwar , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel