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We apply several machine learning algorithms to the problem of anomaly detection in operational data for large-scale, high-voltage electric power grids. We observe important differences in the performance of the algorithms. Neural networks…

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The sophistication and diversity of contemporary cyberattacks have rendered the use of proxies, gateways, firewalls, and encrypted tunnels as a standalone defensive strategy inadequate. Consequently, the proactive identification of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Liyang Wang , Yu Cheng , Hao Gong , Jiacheng Hu , Xirui Tang , Iris Li

Anomaly detection is to recognize samples that differ in some respect from the training observations. These samples which do not conform to the distribution of normal data are called outliers or anomalies. In real-world anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

In many real-world AD applications including computer security and fraud prevention, the anomaly detector must be configurable by the human analyst to minimize the effort on false positives. One important way to configure the detector is by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shubhomoy Das , Md Rakibul Islam , Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Performance and high availability have become increasingly important drivers, amongst other drivers, for user retention in the context of web services such as social networks, and web search. Exogenic and/or endogenic factors often give…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Jordan Hochenbaum , Owen S. Vallis , Arun Kejariwal

The demands on visual recognition systems do not end with the complexity offered by current large-scale image datasets, such as ImageNet. In consequence, we need curious and continuously learning algorithms that actively acquire knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Christoph Käding , Erik Rodner , Alexander Freytag , Joachim Denzler

Anomaly detection can be conceived either through generative modelling of regular training data or by discriminating with respect to negative training data. These two approaches exhibit different failure modes. Consequently, hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Matej Grcić , Petra Bevandić , Siniša Šegvić

In many applications, data is easy to acquire but expensive and time-consuming to label prominent examples include medical imaging and NLP. This disparity has only grown in recent years as our ability to collect data improves. Under these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Blake Camp , Rolando Estrada

We propose a one-class neural network (OC-NN) model to detect anomalies in complex data sets. OC-NN combines the ability of deep networks to extract a progressively rich representation of data with the one-class objective of creating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Raghavendra Chalapathy , Aditya Krishna Menon , Sanjay Chawla

We address the problem of sequentially selecting and observing processes from a given set to find the anomalies among them. The decision-maker observes a subset of the processes at any given time instant and obtains a noisy binary indicator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Geethu Joseph , Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar , Pramod K. Varshney

Anomaly detection becomes increasingly important for the dependability and serviceability of IT services. As log lines record events during the execution of IT services, they are a primary source for diagnostics. Thereby, unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Thorsten Wittkopp , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Dominik Scheinert , Wu Fan , Odej Kao

Deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve high performance when applied to In-Distribution (ID) data which come from the same distribution as the training set. When presented with anomaly inputs not from the ID, the outputs of a DNN should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Fangzhen Zhao , Chenyi Zhang , Naipeng Dong , Zefeng You , Zhenxin Wu

In the fields of statistics and unsupervised machine learning a fundamental and well-studied problem is anomaly detection. Anomalies are difficult to define, yet many algorithms have been proposed. Underlying the approaches is the nebulous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Nassir Mohammad

Anomaly detection is the process of finding data points that deviate from a baseline. In a real-life setting, anomalies are usually unknown or extremely rare. Moreover, the detection must be accomplished in a timely manner or the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mariem Ben Fadhel , Kofi Nyarko

The detection and classification of anomalies in gravitational wave data plays a critical role in improving the sensitivity of searches for signals of astrophysical origins. We present ABNORMAL (AI Based Nonstationarity Observer for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Yi-Yang Guo , Soumya D. Mohanty , Xie Qunying , Yu-Xiao Liu

Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source is clean, i.e., features and labels are correctly set.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Rui Han , Bogdan Robu , Sara Bouchenak , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Lydia Y. Chen

In this paper, we address the anomaly detection problem where the objective is to find the anomalous processes among a given set of processes. To this end, the decision-making agent probes a subset of processes at every time instant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Geethu Joseph , Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar , Pramod K. Varshney

As IoT networks become more complex and generate massive amounts of dynamic data, it is difficult to monitor and detect anomalies using traditional statistical methods and machine learning methods. Deep learning algorithms can process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mei Liu , Leon Yang

Cloud computing is ubiquitous: more and more companies are moving the workloads into the Cloud. However, this rise in popularity challenges Cloud service providers, as they need to monitor the quality of their ever-growing offerings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Mohammad Saiful Islam , William Pourmajidi , Lei Zhang , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , Andriy Miranskyy

Automatic log file analysis enables early detection of relevant incidents such as system failures. In particular, self-learning anomaly detection techniques capture patterns in log data and subsequently report unexpected log event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Sebastian Onder , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger