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Anomaly detection is critical in domains such as cybersecurity and finance, especially when working with large-scale tabular data. Yet, unsupervised anomaly detection-where no labeled anomalies are available-remains challenging because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Spencer King , Zhilu Zhang , Ruofan Yu , Baris Coskun , Wei Ding , Qian Cui

Due to the rare occurrence of anomalous events, a typical approach to anomaly detection is to train an autoencoder (AE) with normal data only so that it learns the patterns or representations of the normal training data. At test time, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Marcella Astrid , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Djamila Aouada , Seung-Ik Lee

Explainable machine learning has attracted much interest in the community where the stakes are high. Counterfactual explanations methods have become an important tool in explaining a black-box model. The recent advances have leveraged the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Zhang , Brian Barr , John Paisley

Building a scalable machine learning system for unsupervised anomaly detection via representation learning is highly desirable. One of the prevalent methods is using a reconstruction error from variational autoencoder (VAE) via maximizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Seonho Park , George Adosoglou , Panos M. Pardalos

Recent advancements in tabular deep learning have demonstrated exceptional practical performance, yet the field often lacks a clear understanding of why these techniques actually succeed. To address this gap, our paper highlights the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Nikolay Kartashev , Ivan Rubachev , Artem Babenko

In the research area of anomaly detection, novel and promising methods are frequently developed. However, most existing studies exclusively focus on the detection task only and ignore the interpretability of the underlying models as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Cheng Feng , Pingge Hu

Machine learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods are being adopted rapidly, especially in computer network security, such as fraud detection, network anomaly detection, intrusion detection, and much more. However, the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar

The accelerated progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has popularized deep learning models across various domains, yet their inherent opacity poses challenges, particularly in critical fields like healthcare, medicine, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Michail Mamalakis , Antonios Mamalakis , Ingrid Agartz , Lynn Egeland Mørch-Johnsen , Graham Murray , John Suckling , Pietro Lio

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a daunting task, as it relies solely on normality patterns from the training data to identify unseen anomalies during testing. Recent approaches have focused on leveraging domain-specific transformations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hyuntae Kim , Changhee Lee

Tabular data is the foundation of many applications in fields such as finance and healthcare. Although DNNs tailored for tabular data achieve competitive predictive performance, they are blackboxes with little interpretability. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Khawla Elhadri , Jörg Schlötterer , Christin Seifert

Deep learning has now become the de facto approach to the recognition of anomalies in medical imaging. Their 'black box' way of classifying medical images into anomaly labels poses problems for their acceptance, particularly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Satyananda Kashyap , Alexandros Karargyris , Joy Wu , Yaniv Gur , Arjun Sharma , Ken C. L. Wong , Mehdi Moradi , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

Dealing with missing data in data analysis is inevitable. Although powerful imputation methods that address this problem exist, there is still much room for improvement. In this study, we examined single imputation based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Björn Linse , Patrik Edén , Mattias Ohlsson

Anomaly detection in X-ray images has been an active and lasting research area in the last decades, especially in the domain of medical X-ray images. For this work, we created a real-world labeled anomaly dataset, consisting of 16-bit X-ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Simon B. Jensen , Thomas B. Moeslund , Søren J. Andreasen

In medical applications, weakly supervised anomaly detection methods are of great interest, as only image-level annotations are required for training. Current anomaly detection methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Robin Sandkühler , Philippe C. Cattin

With the advent of the big data era, the data quality problem is becoming more critical. Among many factors, data with missing values is one primary issue, and thus developing effective imputation models is a key topic in the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xinyao Liu , Shengdong Du , Tianrui Li , Fei Teng , Yan Yang

We focus on the problem of unsupervised cell outlier detection and repair in mixed-type tabular data. Traditional methods are concerned only with detecting which rows in the dataset are outliers. However, identifying which cells are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Simão Eduardo , Alfredo Nazábal , Christopher K. I. Williams , Charles Sutton

In the field of Explainable AI (XAI), counterfactual (CF) explanations are one prominent method to interpret a black-box model by suggesting changes to the input that would alter a prediction. In real-world applications, the input is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Emmanouil Panagiotou , Manuel Heurich , Tim Landgraf , Eirini Ntoutsi

Anomaly detection and its explanation is important in many research areas such as intrusion detection, fraud detection, unknown attack detection in network traffic and logs. It is challenging to identify the cause or explanation of why one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar

Pathological anomalies exhibit diverse appearances in medical imaging, making it difficult to collect and annotate a representative amount of data required to train deep learning models in a supervised setting. Therefore, in this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu

The detection of rare cell types in single-cell transcriptomics data is crucial for elucidating disease pathogenesis and tissue development dynamics. However, a critical gap that persists in current methods is their inability to provide an…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Di Su , Kai Ming Ting , Jie Zhang , Xiaorui Zhang , Xinpeng Li