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Anomaly detection or outlier detection is a common task in various domains, which has attracted significant research efforts in recent years. Existing works mainly focus on structured data such as numerical or categorical data; however,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zeyu You , Yichu Zhou , Tao Yang , Wei Fan

The detection of previously unseen network attacks remains a major challenge for intrusion detection systems. Although supervised learning methods often perform well on known attack classes, they are limited when new attack types are not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Saif Alzubi , Frederic Stahl

Monitoring traffic in computer networks is one of the core approaches for defending critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been proposed in the past as a tool to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Daniel L. Marino , Chathurika S. Wickramasinghe , Craig Rieger , Milos Manic

Knowledge-augmented learning enables the combination of knowledge-based and data-driven approaches. For anomaly detection and diagnosis, understandability is typically an important factor, especially in high-risk areas. Therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Martin Atzmueller , Tim Bohne , Patricia Windler

Anomaly generation is an effective way to mitigate data scarcity for anomaly detection task. Most existing works shine at industrial anomaly generation with multiple specialists or large generative models, rarely generalizing to anomalies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ying Zhao

Diffusion models have found valuable applications in anomaly detection by capturing the nominal data distribution and identifying anomalies via reconstruction. Despite their merits, they struggle to localize anomalies of varying scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Justin Tebbe , Jawad Tayyub

Detecting unusual patterns in graph data is a crucial task in data mining. However, existing methods face challenges in consistently achieving satisfactory performance and often lack interpretability, which hinders our understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yifei Yang , Peng Wang , Xiaofan He , Dongmian Zou

This paper considers an anomaly detection problem in which a detection algorithm assigns anomaly scores to multi-dimensional data points, such as cellular networks' Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). We propose an optimization framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ali Maatouk , Fadhel Ayed , Wenjie Li , Yu Wang , Hong Zhu , Jiantao Ye

Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao , Anton van den Hengel

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

There is a growing demand for explainable, transparent, and data-driven models within the domain of fraud detection. Decisions made by fraud detection models need to be explainable in the event of a customer dispute. Additionally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Samantha Visbeek , Erman Acar , Floris den Hengst

Anomaly detection is a challenging problem in machine learning, and is even more so when dealing with instances that are captured in low-level, raw data representations without a well-behaved set of engineered features. The Radial Basis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Mehran H. Z. Bazargani , Arjun Pakrashi , Brian Mac Namee

Reliable anomaly detection in distributed power plant monitoring systems is essential for ensuring operational continuity and reducing maintenance costs, particularly in regions where telecom operators heavily rely on diesel generators.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Corneille Niyonkuru , Marcellin Atemkeng , Gabin Maxime Nguegnang , Arnaud Nguembang Fadja

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging problem due to the diversity of data distributions and the lack of labels. Ensemble methods are often adopted to mitigate these challenges by combining multiple detectors, which can reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jordan Levy , Paul Saves , Moncef Garouani , Nicolas Verstaevel , Benoit Gaudou

The paper introduces a novel framework based on category theory to enhance the explainability of artificial intelligence systems, particularly focusing on word embeddings. Key topics include the construction of categories $\mathcal{L}_T$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ares Fabregat-Hernández , Javier Palanca , Vicent Botti

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

The primary objective of Continual Anomaly Detection (CAD) is to learn the normal patterns of new tasks under dynamic data distribution assumptions while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Existing embedding-based CAD approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Gen Yang , Zhipeng Deng , Junfeng Man

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

Anomaly detection aims to identify samples that deviate from the nominal data distribution and is central to many safety-critical applications. However, developing effective anomaly detection methods for categorical, mixed-type, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lixing Zhang , Yuchen Liang , Liyan Xie

Semantic segmentation is a crucial component for perception in automated driving. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly used for this task and they are usually trained on a closed set of object classes appearing in a closed operational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Robin Chan , Svenja Uhlemeyer , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk