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Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

Anomaly detection is to identify samples that do not conform to the distribution of the normal data. Due to the unavailability of anomalous data, training a supervised deep neural network is a cumbersome task. As such, unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , John Taylor Jewell , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Anomaly detection in High Energy Physics requires identifying rare signals against overwhelming backgrounds, without prior knowledge of the signal. We present the first application of masked-token prediction, a technique from Large Language…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ambre Visive , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Sascha Caron

Inspired by the complexity and diversity of biological neurons, a quadratic neuron is proposed to replace the inner product in the current neuron with a simplified quadratic function. Employing such a novel type of neurons offers a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jing-Xiao Liao , Bo-Jian Hou , Hang-Cheng Dong , Hao Zhang , Xiaoge Zhang , Jinwei Sun , Shiping Zhang , Feng-Lei Fan

Anomaly detection is the problem of recognizing abnormal inputs based on the seen examples of normal data. Despite recent advances of deep learning in recognizing image anomalies, these methods still prove incapable of handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nina Shvetsova , Bart Bakker , Irina Fedulova , Heinrich Schulz , Dmitry V. Dylov

Anomaly detection is a prominent data preprocessing step in learning applications for correction and/or removal of faulty data. Automating this data type with the use of autoencoders could increase the quality of the dataset by isolating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Benjamin Smith , Kevin Cant , Gloria Wang

Autoencoders have been extensively used in the development of recent anomaly detection techniques. The premise of their application is based on the notion that after training the autoencoder on normal training data, anomalous inputs will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Amin Ghafourian , Huanyi Shui , Devesh Upadhyay , Rajesh Gupta , Dimitar Filev , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi

Detecting mission-critical anomalous events and data is a crucial challenge across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and energy. Quantum computing has recently emerged as a powerful tool for tackling several machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jason Zev Ludmir , Sophia Rebello , Jacob Ruiz , Tirthak Patel

We apply several machine learning algorithms to the problem of anomaly detection in operational data for large-scale, high-voltage electric power grids. We observe important differences in the performance of the algorithms. Neural networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Marc Gillioz , Guillaume Dubuis , Étienne Voutaz , Philippe Jacquod

Despite extensive theoretical motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics, searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found no significant evidence for BSM physics. Therefore, it is essential to broaden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Jack H. Collins , Kiel Howe , Benjamin Nachman

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

The standard model (SM) of particle physics represents a theoretical paradigm for the description of the fundamental forces of nature. Despite its broad applicability, the SM does not enable the description of all physically possible…

Due to the growing amount of data from in-situ sensors in wastewater systems, it becomes necessary to automatically identify abnormal behaviours and ensure high data quality. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Stefania Russo , Andy Disch , Frank Blumensaat , Kris Villez

Escalating cyber threats and the high-dimensional complexity of IoT traffic have outpaced classical anomaly detection methods. While deep learning offers improvements, computational bottlenecks limit real-time deployment at scale. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Swathi Chandrasekhar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Swati Kumari , Navneet Singh

Discoveries of new phenomena often involve a dedicated search for a hypothetical physics signature. Recently, novel deep learning techniques have emerged for anomaly detection in the absence of a signal prior. However, by ignoring signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Sang Eon Park , Dylan Rankin , Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Mikaeel Yunus , Philip Harris

Autoencoders are frequently used for anomaly detection, both in the unsupervised and semi-supervised settings. They rely on the assumption that when trained using the reconstruction loss, they will be able to reconstruct normal data more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Roel Bouman , Tom Heskes

Anomaly detection is a challenging task for machine learning algorithms due to the inherent class imbalance. It is costly and time-demanding to manually analyse the observed data, thus usually only few known anomalies if any are available.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 J. -P. Schulze , P. Sperl , K. Böttinger

Anomaly detection in cybersecurity is a challenging task, where normal events far outnumber anomalous ones with new anomalies occurring frequently. Classical autoencoders have been used for anomaly detection, but struggles in data-limited…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rohan Senthil , Swee Liang Wong

Classical autoencoders are neural networks that can learn efficient low dimensional representations of data in higher dimensional space. The task of an autoencoder is, given an input $x$, is to map $x$ to a lower dimensional point $y$ such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Jonathan Romero , Jonathan P. Olson , Alan Aspuru-Guzik