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Classical discriminant analysis (DA) is based on the mean and empirical covariance matrix of each class, both of which are sensitive to outliers in the data. In the past the focus was on casewise outliers, that is, datapoints that lie far…

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In diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis (DTA-MA), standard inference methods using bivariate random-effects models for jointly synthesizing sensitivity and specificity can be sensitive to outlying studies and may yield misleading…

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In many cases, the values of some model parameters are determined by maximising the likelihood of a set of data points given the parameter values. The presence of outliers in the data and correlations between data points complicate this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-08-28 M. de Jong

The combination of the Internet of Things and the Edge Computing gives many opportunities to support innovative applications close to end users. Numerous devices present in both infrastructures can collect data upon which various processing…

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Supervised learning models are challenged by the intrinsic complexities of training data such as outliers and minority subpopulations and intentional attacks at inference time with adversarial samples. While traditional robust learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shu Hu , Zhenhuan Yang , Xin Wang , Yiming Ying , Siwei Lyu

Outlier detection aims to identify unusual data instances that deviate from expected patterns. The outlier detection is particularly challenging when outliers are context dependent and when they are defined by unusual combinations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Charmgil Hong , Milos Hauskrecht

The task of robust linear estimation in the presence of outliers is of particular importance in signal processing, statistics and machine learning. Although the problem has been stated a few decades ago and solved using classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 George Papageorgiou , Pantelis Bouboulis , Sergios Theodoridis , Kostantinos Themelis

Gaussian process regression in its most simplified form assumes normal homoscedastic noise and utilizes analytically tractable mean and covariance functions of predictive posterior distribution using Gaussian conditioning. Its…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-20 Pooja Algikar , Lamine Mili

This study explores the impact of class outliers on the effectiveness of example-based explainability methods for black-box machine learning models. We reformulate existing explainability evaluation metrics, such as correctness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ikhtiyor Nematov , Dimitris Sacharidis , Tomer Sagi , Katja Hose

Linear regression with the classical normality assumption for the error distribution may lead to an undesirable posterior inference of regression coefficients due to the potential outliers. This paper considers the finite mixture of two…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-12 Yasuyuki Hamura , Kaoru Irie , Shonosuke Sugasawa

Learning-based outlier (mismatched correspondence) rejection for robust 3D registration generally formulates the outlier removal as an inlier/outlier classification problem. The core for this to be successful is to learn the discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Haobo Jiang , Zheng Dang , Zhen Wei , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Mathieu Salzmann

Robust estimation approaches are of fundamental importance for statistical modelling. To reduce susceptibility to outliers, we propose a robust estimation procedure with t-process under functional ANOVA model. Besides common mean structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-19 Chen Zhang , Zimu Chen , Zhanfeng Wang , Yaohua Wu

Robust statistics traditionally focuses on outliers, or perturbations in total variation distance. However, a dataset could be corrupted in many other ways, such as systematic measurement errors and missing covariates. We generalize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Banghua Zhu , Jiantao Jiao , Jacob Steinhardt

In an industrial context, the activity of sensors is recorded at a high frequency. A challenge is to automatically detect abnormal measurement behavior. Considering the sensor measures as functional data, the problem can be formulated as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Martial Amovin-Assagba , Irène Gannaz , Julien Jacques

Extracting the underlying trend signal is a crucial step to facilitate time series analysis like forecasting and anomaly detection. Besides noise signal, time series can contain not only outliers but also abrupt trend changes in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Qingsong Wen , Jingkun Gao , Xiaomin Song , Liang Sun , Jian Tan

Outlier detection is an inevitable step to most statistical data analyses. However, the mere detection of an outlying case does not always answer all scientific questions associated with that data point. Outlier detection techniques,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Michiel Debruyne , Sebastiaan Höppner , Sven Serneels , Tim Verdonck

This paper develops a flexible distribution-free method for collective outlier detection and enumeration, designed for situations in which the presence of outliers can be detected powerfully even though their precise identification may be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Chiara G. Magnani , Matteo Sesia , Aldo Solari

In this work we propose a robust methodology to mitigate the undesirable effects caused by outliers to generate reliable physical models. In this way, we formulate the inverse problems theory in the context of Kaniadakis statistical…

The sample covariance matrix is a cornerstone of multivariate statistics, but it is highly sensitive to outliers. These can be casewise outliers, such as cases belonging to a different population, or cellwise outliers, which are deviating…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-27 Fabio Centofanti , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Advances in machine learning technologies have led to increasingly powerful models in particular in the context of big data. Yet, many application scenarios demand for robustly interpretable models rather than optimum model accuracy; as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Lukas Pfannschmidt , Jonathan Jakob , Fabian Hinder , Michael Biehl , Peter Tino , Barbara Hammer