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To keep modern Radio Access Networks (RAN) running smoothly, operators need to spot the real-world triggers behind Service-Level Agreement (SLA) breaches well before customers feel them. We introduce an AI/ML pipeline that does two things…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chenhua Shi , Joji Philip , Subhadip Bandyopadhyay , Jayanta Choudhury

Logs constitute a form of evidence signaling the operational status of software systems. Automated log anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of modern software systems. However, existing approaches face significant…

Anomaly detection in time series has been widely researched and has important practical applications. In recent years, anomaly detection algorithms are mostly based on deep-learning generative models and use the reconstruction error to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Chunkai Zhang , Wei Zuo , Xuan Wang

Anomaly, or out-of-distribution, detection is a promising tool for aiding discoveries of new particles or processes in particle physics. In this work, we identify and address two overlooked opportunities to improve anomaly detection for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-18 Abhijith Gandrakota , Lily Zhang , Aahlad Puli , Kyle Cranmer , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Rajesh Ranganath , Nhan Tran

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

The increasing digitization of medical imaging enables machine learning based improvements in detecting, visualizing and segmenting lesions, easing the workload for medical experts. However, supervised machine learning requires reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Michael Gadermayr

Cross-domain graph anomaly detection (CD-GAD) describes the problem of detecting anomalous nodes in an unlabelled target graph using auxiliary, related source graphs with labelled anomalous and normal nodes. Although it presents a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Qizhou Wang , Guansong Pang , Mahsa Salehi , Wray Buntine , Christopher Leckie

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in various domains. Most of the existing methods assume the normal sample data clusters around a single central prototype while the real data may consist of multiple categories or subgroups. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Zhijin Dong , Hongzhi Liu , Boyuan Ren , Weimin Xiong , Zhonghai Wu

Anomaly detection is a challenging task that frequently arises in practically all areas of industry and science, from fraud detection and data quality monitoring to finding rare cases of diseases and searching for new physics. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Artem Ryzhikov , Maxim Borisyak , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Denis Derkach

Monitoring machine learning (ML) systems is hard, with standard practice focusing on detecting distribution shifts rather than their causes. Root-cause analysis often relies on manual tracing to determine whether a shift is caused by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Joran Leest , Ilias Gerostathopoulos , Patricia Lago , Claudia Raibulet

Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods leverage a few anomaly examples to yield drastically improved performance compared to unsupervised models. However, they still suffer from two limitations: 1) unlabeled anomalies (i.e., anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Hongzuo Xu , Yijie Wang , Guansong Pang , Songlei Jian , Ning Liu , Yongjun Wang

Anomaly detection is fundamental yet, challenging problem with practical applications in industry. The current approaches neglect the higher-order dependencies within the networks of interconnected sensors in the high-dimensional time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sakhinana Sagar Srinivas , Rajat Kumar Sarkar , Venkataramana Runkana

An important tool grid operators use to safeguard against failures, whether naturally occurring or malicious, involves detecting anomalies in the power system SCADA data. In this paper, we aim to solve a real-time anomaly detection problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 SangWoo Park , Amritanshu Pandey

We study distribution-free root cause analysis in multi-stream data, where an evolving underlying system is observed through multiple data streams that may each undergo distributional changes at unknown timepoints. In such settings, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-22 Rohan Hore , Aaditya Ramdas

Learning representations that clearly distinguish between normal and abnormal data is key to the success of anomaly detection. Most of existing anomaly detection algorithms use activation representations from forward propagation while not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gukyeong Kwon , Mohit Prabhushankar , Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

Identifying anomalies in large multi-dimensional time series is a crucial and difficult task across multiple domains. Few methods exist in the literature that address this task when some of the variables are categorical in nature. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Matthew Horak , Sowmya Chandrasekaran , Giovanni Tobar

Root cause analysis in microservice systems typically involves two core tasks: root cause localization (RCL) and failure type identification (FTI). Despite substantial research efforts, conventional diagnostic approaches still face two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuaiyu Xie , Hanbin He , Jian Wang , Bing Li

System logs are some of the most important information for the maintenance of software systems, which have become larger and more complex in recent years. The goal of log-based anomaly detection is to automatically detect system anomalies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomokatsu Takahashi , Takuya Minami , Yoshiaki Nakajima

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

Anomaly detection in large industrial cooling systems is very challenging due to the high data dimensionality, inconsistent sensor recordings, and lack of labels. The state of the art for automated anomaly detection in these systems…