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Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a crucial tool in network anomaly detection (NAD) for cybersecurity. While DL models for anomaly detection excel at extracting features and learning patterns from data, they are vulnerable to data…

Semi-supervised learning algorithms reduce the high cost of acquiring labeled training data by using both labeled and unlabeled data during learning. Deep Convolutional Networks (DCNs) have achieved great success in supervised tasks and as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Tan Nguyen , Wanjia Liu , Ethan Perez , Richard G. Baraniuk , Ankit B. Patel

We introduce a new semi-supervised, time series anomaly detection algorithm that uses deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and active learning to efficiently learn and adapt to anomalies in real-world time series data. Our model - called RLAD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tong Wu , Jorge Ortiz

Anomaly detection in industrial visual inspection is challenging due to the scarcity of defective samples. Most existing methods rely on unsupervised reconstruction using only normal data, often resulting in overfitting and poor detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Amirhossein Khadivi Noghredeh , Abdollah Safari , Fatemeh Ziaeetabar , Firoozeh Haghighi

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is critical for identifying abnormal nodes in graph-structured data from diverse domains, including cybersecurity and social networks. The existing GAD methods often focus on the learning paradigms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Anomaly detecting as an important technical in cloud computing is applied to support smooth running of the cloud platform. Traditional detecting methods based on statistic, analysis, etc. lead to the high false-alarm rate due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Jing Zhang

Selecting informative data points for expert feedback can significantly improve the performance of anomaly detection (AD) in various contexts, such as medical diagnostics or fraud detection. In this paper, we determine a set of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Most anomaly detection systems try to model normal behavior and assume anomalies deviate from it in diverse manners. However, there may be patterns in the anomalies as well. Ideally, an anomaly detection system can exploit patterns in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jonas Soenen , Elia Van Wolputte , Vincent Vercruyssen , Wannes Meert , Hendrik Blockeel

Responding to the challenge of detecting unusual radar targets in a well identified environment, innovative anomaly and novelty detection methods keep emerging in the literature. This work aims at presenting a benchmark gathering common and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Martin Bauw , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo , Claude Adnet , Olivier Airiau

In order to circumvent statistical and computational hardness results in sequential decision-making, recent work has considered smoothed online learning, where the distribution of data at each time is assumed to have bounded likeliehood…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-26 Adam Block , Alexander Rakhlin , Abhishek Shetty

We present a new method of training energy-based models (EBMs) for anomaly detection that leverages low-dimensional structures within data. The proposed algorithm, Manifold Projection-Diffusion Recovery (MPDR), first perturbs a data point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sangwoong Yoon , Young-Uk Jin , Yung-Kyun Noh , Frank C. Park

Decision-tree-based ensemble classification methods (DTEMs) are a prevalent tool for supervised anomaly detection. However, due to the continued growth of datasets, DTEMs result in increasing drawbacks such as growing memory footprints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shay Vargaftik , Isaac Keslassy , Ariel Orda , Yaniv Ben-Itzhak

Recent advancements in diffusion models have demonstrated significant success in unsupervised anomaly segmentation. For anomaly segmentation, these models are first trained on normal data; then, an anomalous image is noised to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar

This paper proposes deception as a mechanism for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization: by learning data representations that make training data appear independent and identically distributed (iid) to an observer, we can identify stable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anirudha Majumdar

In this paper we study the differentially private Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) problem in different settings. For smooth (strongly) convex loss function with or without (non)-smooth regularization, we give algorithms that achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Di Wang , Minwei Ye , Jinhui Xu

Invariant risk minimization (IRM) aims to enable out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in deep learning by learning invariant representations. As IRM poses an inherently challenging bi-level optimization problem, most existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kotaro Yoshida , Konstantinos Slavakis

Fraud in healthcare is widespread, as doctors could prescribe unnecessary treatments to increase bills. Insurance companies want to detect these anomalous fraudulent bills and reduce their losses. Traditional fraud detection methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Victoria Snorovikhina , Alexey Zaytsev

Recent studies give more attention to the anomaly detection (AD) methods that can leverage a handful of labeled anomalies along with abundant unlabeled data. These existing anomaly-informed AD methods rely on manually predefined score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Minqi Jiang , Songqiao Han , Hailiang Huang

Exfiltration of data via email is a serious cybersecurity threat for many organizations. Detecting data exfiltration (anomaly) patterns typically requires labeling, most often done by a human annotator, to reduce the high number of false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jaturong Kongmanee , Mark Chignell , Khilan Jerath , Abhay Raman

Unsupervised Deep Learning (DL) techniques have been widely used in various security-related anomaly detection applications, owing to the great promise of being able to detect unforeseen threats and superior performance provided by Deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dongqi Han , Zhiliang Wang , Wenqi Chen , Ying Zhong , Su Wang , Han Zhang , Jiahai Yang , Xingang Shi , Xia Yin