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We investigate whether a multiscale tensor-network architecture can provide a useful inductive bias for reconstruction-based anomaly detection in collider jets. Jets are produced by a branching cascade, so their internal structure is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Emre Gurkanli , Michael Spannowsky

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

Searches for new physics at the LHC at CERN traditionally use advanced simulations to model Standard Model and new-physics processes in high-energy collisions and compare them with data. The lack of recent direct discoveries, however, has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-30 Antonio D'Avanzo

An anomaly detection method based on deep autoencoders is proposed to address anomalies that often occur in enterprise-level ETL data streams. The study first analyzes multiple types of anomalies in ETL processes, including delays, missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Chen , Saili Uday Gadgil , Kangning Gao , Yi Hu , Cong Nie

There is an increased interest in model agnostic search strategies for physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a Deep Set Variational Autoencoder and present results on the Dark Machines Anomaly Score…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Bryan Ostdiek

Reliably detecting anomalies in a given set of images is a task of high practical relevance for visual quality inspection, surveillance, or medical image analysis. Autoencoder neural networks learn to reconstruct normal images, and hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Laura Beggel , Michael Pfeiffer , Bernd Bischl

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

Using variational autoencoders trained on known physics processes, we develop a one-sided threshold test to isolate previously unseen processes as outlier events. Since the autoencoder training does not depend on any specific new physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-14 Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu , Jean-Roch Vlimant

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 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

A novel anomaly detection algorithm is presented. The Wasserstein normalized autoencoder (WNAE) is a normalized probabilistic model that minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the learned probability distribution -- a Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-03 CMS Collaboration

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

The pursuit of discovering new phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) demands constant innovation in algorithms and technologies. Tensor networks are mathematical models on the intersection of classical and quantum machine learning,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Ema Puljak , Maurizio Pierini , Artur Garcia-Saez

Medical anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal findings using only normal training data, playing a crucial role in health screening and recognizing rare diseases. Reconstruction-based methods, particularly those utilizing autoencoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yu Cai , Hao Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng

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

Reliable aero-engine anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring aircraft safety and operational efficiency. This research explores the application of the Fisher autoencoder as an unsupervised deep learning method for detecting anomalies in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

In recent years, interest has grown in alternative strategies for the search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model. One envisaged solution lies in the development of anomaly detection algorithms based on unsupervised machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-08 Louis Vaslin , Vincent Barra , Julien Donini

We focus on a specific use case in anomaly detection where the distribution of normal samples is supported by a lower-dimensional manifold. Here, regularized autoencoders provide a popular approach by learning the identity mapping on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexander Bauer , Shinichi Nakajima , Klaus-Robert Müller

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely challenging environment of a real-time event selection system…

The current practice of manually processing features for high-dimensional and heterogeneous aviation data is labor-intensive, does not scale well to new problems, and is prone to information loss, affecting the effectiveness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Liya Wang , Panta Lucic , Keith Campbell , Craig Wanke