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In statistics and machine learning, the traditional meaning of the terms `outlier' and `anomaly' is a case in the dataset that behaves differently from the bulk of the data. This raises suspicion that it may belong to a different…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Mia Hubert , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Outlier detection is a core task in data mining with a plethora of algorithms that have enjoyed wide scale usage. Existing algorithms are primarily focused on detection, that is the identification of outliers in a given dataset. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yue Wu , Leman Akoglu , Ian Davidson

It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Thomas Dietterich

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

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

The unsupervised outlier detection (UOD) problem refers to a task to identify inliers given training data which contain outliers as well as inliers, without any labeled information about inliers and outliers. It has been widely recognized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-17 Dongha Kim , Jaesung Hwang , Jongjin Lee , Kunwoong Kim , Yongdai Kim

Outlier detection refers to the identification of data points that deviate from a general data distribution. Existing unsupervised approaches often suffer from high computational cost, complex hyperparameter tuning, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Zheng Li , Yue Zhao , Xiyang Hu , Nicola Botta , Cezar Ionescu , George H. Chen

This paper investigates differentially private analysis of distance-based outliers. The problem of outlier detection is to find a small number of instances that are apparently distant from the remaining instances. On the other hand, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-28 Rina Okada , Kazuto Fukuchi , Kazuya Kakizaki , Jun Sakuma

The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Outlier detection is one of the most important processes taken to create good, reliable data in machine learning. The most methods of outlier detection leverage an auxiliary reconstruction task by assuming that outliers are more difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ning Huyan , Dou Quan , Xiangrong Zhang , Xuefeng Liang , Jocelyn Chanussot , Licheng Jiao

Detecting a small number of outliers from a set of data observations is always challenging. This problem is more difficult in the setting of multiple network samples, where computing the anomalous degree of a network sample is generally not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Xuan-Hong Dang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami , Prithwish Basu

The ability to detect objects that are not prevalent in the training set is a critical capability in many 3D applications, including autonomous driving. Machine learning methods for object recognition often assume that all object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zizhao Li , Xueyang Kang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

Often the challenge associated with tasks like fraud and spam detection[1] is the lack of all likely patterns needed to train suitable supervised learning models. In order to overcome this limitation, such tasks are attempted as outlier or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Utkarsh Porwal , Smruthi Mukund

A new technique for the detection of outliers in contingency tables is introduced. Outliers thereby are unexpected cell counts with respect to classical loglinear Poisson models. Subsets of cell counts called minimal patterns are defined,…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-15 Sonja Kuhnt , Fabio Rapallo , André Rehage

Outlier detection (OD) aims to identify abnormal instances, known as outliers or anomalies, by learning typical patterns of normal data, or inliers. Performing OD under an unsupervised regime-without any information about anomalous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Minseo Kang , Seunghwan Park , Dongha Kim

Outlier detection is an essential capability in safety-critical applications of supervised visual recognition. Most of the existing methods deliver best results by encouraging standard closed-set models to produce low-confidence predictions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Anja Delić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić

Outlier detection (OD) is the task of identifying unusual observations (or outliers) from a given or upcoming data by learning unique patterns of normal observations (or inliers). Recently, a study introduced a powerful unsupervised OD…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-08 Seoyoung Cho , Jaesung Hwang , Kwan-Young Bak , Dongha Kim

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

Event sequence data record the occurrences of events in continuous time. Event sequence forecasting based on temporal point processes (TPPs) has been extensively studied, but outlier or anomaly detection, especially without any supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Somjit Nath , Yik Chau Lui , Siqi Liu

In order to allow machine learning algorithms to extract knowledge from raw data, these data must first be cleaned, transformed, and put into machine-appropriate form. These often very time-consuming phase is referred to as preprocessing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 David Cemernek