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Anomaly detection - identifying deviations from Standard Model predictions - is a key challenge at the Large Hadron Collider due to the size and complexity of its datasets. This is typically addressed by transforming high-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-03 Kyle Metzger , Lana Xu , Mia Sodini , Thea K. Arrestad , Katya Govorkova , Gaia Grosso , Philip Harris

Autoencoders are unsupervised models which have been used for detecting anomalies in multi-sensor environments. A typical use includes training a predictive model with data from sensors operating under normal conditions and using the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Bang Xiang Yong , Yasmin Fathy , Alexandra Brintrup

We investigate a method of model-agnostic anomaly detection through studying jets, collimated sprays of particles produced in high-energy collisions. We train a transformer neural network to encode simulated QCD "event space" dijets into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Barry M. Dillon , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

With the hyperspectral imaging technology, hyperspectral data provides abundant spectral information and plays a more important role in geological survey, vegetation analysis and military reconnaissance. Different from normal change…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Meiqi Hu , Chen Wu , Liangpei Zhang , Bo Du

We propose a new type of variational autoencoder to perform improved pre-processing for clustering and anomaly detection on data with a given label. Anomalies however are not known or labeled. We call our method conditional latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Erik Norlander , Alexandros Sopasakis

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify examples that deviate from normal or expected behavior. We tackle this problem for images. We consider a two-phase approach. First, using normal examples, a convolutional autoencoder (CAE) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic , Jesse Davis

Autoencoders are an effective analysis tool for the LHC, as they represent one of its main goal of finding physics beyond the Standard Model. The key challenge is that out-of-distribution anomaly searches based on the compressibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Barry M. Dillon , Luigi Favaro , Tilman Plehn , Peter Sorrenson , Michael Krämer

Anomaly detection on the attributed network has recently received increasing attention in many research fields, such as cybernetic anomaly detection and financial fraud detection. With the wide application of deep learning on graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yuanjun Shi

In Federated Learning (FL), anomaly detection (AD) is a challenging task due to the decentralized nature of data and the presence of non-IID data distributions. This study introduces a novel federated threshold calculation method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sofiane Laridi , Gregory Palmer , Kam-Ming Mark Tam

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

Anomaly detection and localization without any manual annotations and prior knowledge is a challenging task under the setting of unsupervised learning. The existing works achieve excellent performance in the anomaly detection, but with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Honghui Chen , Pingping Chen , Huan Mao , Mengxi Jiang

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

The detection of anomalies is crucial to ensuring the safety and security of maritime vessel traffic surveillance. Although autoencoders are popular for anomaly detection, their effectiveness in identifying collective and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Divya Acharya , Pierre Bernab'e , Antoine Chevrot , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb , Bruno Legeard

Anomaly detection seeks to identify unusual phenomena, a central task in science and industry. The task is inherently unsupervised as anomalies are unexpected and unknown during training. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Eliahu Horwitz , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen

There is a growing need for machine learning-based anomaly detection strategies to broaden the search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and elsewhere. The first step of any anomaly detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gregor Kasieczka , Radha Mastandrea , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Mariel Pettee , David Shih

Autoencoders have useful applications in high energy physics in anomaly detection, particularly for jets - collimated showers of particles produced in collisions such as those at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We explore the use of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-11-29 Steven Tsan , Raghav Kansal , Anthony Aportela , Daniel Diaz , Javier Duarte , Sukanya Krishna , Farouk Mokhtar , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

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

Unsupervised anomaly detection from high dimensional data like mobility networks is a challenging task. Study of different approaches of feature engineering from such high dimensional data have been a focus of research in this field. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Urwa Muaz , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Complete anomaly detection strategies that are both signal sensitive and compatible with background estimation have largely focused on resonant signals. Non-resonant new physics scenarios are relatively under-explored and may arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kehang Bai , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

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