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One of the contemporary challenges in anomaly detection is the ability to detect, and differentiate between, both point and collective anomalies within a data sequence or time series. The anomaly package has been developed to provide users…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-30 Alex Fisch , Daniel Grose , Idris A. Eckley , Paul Fearnhead , Lawrence Bardwell

Anomaly detection methods have demonstrated remarkable success across various applications. However, assessing their performance, particularly at the pixel-level, presents a complex challenge due to the severe imbalance that is most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mehdi Rafiei , Toby P. Breckon , Alexandros Iosifidis

Anomaly detection is an emerging approach in digital pathology for its ability to efficiently and effectively utilize data for disease diagnosis. While supervised learning approaches deliver high accuracy, they rely on extensively annotated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Jiamu Wang , Keunho Byeon , Jinsol Song , Anh Nguyen , Sangjeong Ahn , Sung Hak Lee , Jin Tae Kwak

This paper introduces Redescription Model Mining, a novel approach to identify interpretable patterns across two datasets that share only a subset of attributes and have no common instances. In particular, Redescription Model Mining aims to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Felix I. Stamm , Martin Becker , Markus Strohmaier , Florian Lemmerich

This paper proposes the notion of 'Privacy-Anomaly Detection' and considers the question of whether behavioural-based anomaly detection approaches can have a privacy semantic interpretation and whether the detected anomalies can be related…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Muhammad Imran Khan , Simon Foley , Barry O'Sullivan

This paper introduces a new methodology for detecting anomalies in time series data, with a primary application to monitoring the health of (micro-) services and cloud resources. The main novelty in our approach is that instead of modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Fadhel Ayed , Lorenzo Stella , Tim Januschowski , Jan Gasthaus

Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Anomaly detection focuses on identifying samples that deviate from the norm. Discovering informative representations of normal samples is crucial to detecting anomalies effectively. Recent self-supervised methods have successfully learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Alain Ryser , Thomas M. Sutter , Alexander Marx , Julia E. Vogt

Outlier detection is an important problem occurring in a wide range of areas. Outliers are the outcome of fraudulent behaviour, mechanical faults, human error, or simply natural deviations. Many data mining applications perform outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juan A. Lara , David Lizcano , Víctor Rampérez , Javier Soriano

The life of a cell is governed by highly dynamical microscopic processes. Two notable examples are the diffusion of membrane receptors and the kinetics of transcription factors governing the rates of gene expression. Different fluorescence…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-03 Maxime Woringer , Ignacio Izeddin , Cyril Favard , Hugues Berry

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify observations that are generated by a distribution that differs from the reference distribution that qualifies normal behavior. When examining a time series, the reference distribution may evolve…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-23 Etienne Krönert , Dalila Hattab , Alain Celisse

We propose a new approach, the calibrated nonparametric scan statistic (CNSS), for more accurate detection of anomalous patterns in large-scale, real-world graphs. Scan statistics identify connected subgraphs that are interesting or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-28 Chunpai Wang , Daniel B. Neill , Feng Chen

Scientific experiments study interventions that show evidence of an effect size that is meaningfully large, negligibly small, or inconclusively broad. Previously, we proposed contra-analysis as a decision-making process to help determine…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-17 Bruce A. Corliss , Yaotian Wang , Heman Shakeri , Philip E. Bourne

Anomaly detection is an essential task in the analysis of dynamic networks, offering early warnings of abnormal behavior. We present a principled approach to detect anomalies in dynamic networks that integrates community structure as a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Hadiseh Safdari , Caterina De Bacco

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a popular approach for the analysis of neuroimaging data as it allows to identify a wide variety of anomalies from unlabelled data. It relies on building a subject-specific model of healthy appearance to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Maëlys Solal , Ravi Hassanaly , Ninon Burgos

Deep generative models for anomaly detection in multivariate time-series are typically trained by maximizing data likelihood. However, likelihood in observation space measures marginal density rather than conformity to structured temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Baumgartner , Eliezer de Souza da Silva , Iñigo Urteaga

In this paper, we propose a new approach to causal inference with panel data. Instead of using panel data to adjust for differences in the distribution of unobserved heterogeneity between the treated and comparison groups, we instead use…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-01 Brantly Callaway , Derek Dyal , Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna , Emmanuel S. Tsyawo

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series is an important problem across various fields such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing or physics detector monitoring. Accurately identifying when unexpected errors or faults occur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Laura Boggia , Rafael Teixeira de Lima , Bogdan Malaescu

Irregular multivariate time series with missing values present significant challenges for predictive modeling in domains such as healthcare. While deep learning approaches often focus on temporal interpolation or complex architectures to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dingyi Nie , Yixing Wu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Deviations from expected behavior during runtime, known as anomalies, have become more common due to the systems' complexity, especially for microservices. Consequently, analyzing runtime monitoring data, such as logs, traces for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Monika Steidl , Benedikt Dornauer , Michael Felderer , Rudolf Ramler , Mircea-Cristian Racasan , Marko Gattringer