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We study the classic $k$-means/median clustering, which are fundamental problems in unsupervised learning, in the setting where data are partitioned across multiple sites, and where we are allowed to discard a small portion of the data by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jiecao Chen , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Qin Zhang

Outlier detection refers to the identification of data points that deviate from a general data distribution. Existing unsupervised approaches often suffer from high computational cost, complex hyperparameter tuning, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Zheng Li , Yue Zhao , Xiyang Hu , Nicola Botta , Cezar Ionescu , George H. Chen

LiDAR-based semantic scene understanding is an important module in the modern autonomous driving perception stack. However, identifying outlier points in a LiDAR point cloud is challenging as LiDAR point clouds lack semantically-rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shaocong Xu , Pengfei Li , Qianpu Sun , Xinyu Liu , Yang Li , Shihui Guo , Zhen Wang , Bo Jiang , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang , Hao Zhao , Yilun Chen

In real world, our datasets often contain outliers. Moreover, the outliers can seriously affect the final machine learning result. Most existing algorithms for handling outliers take high time complexities (e.g. quadratic or cubic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hu Ding , Zixiu Wang

Ensemble methods for classification and clustering have been effectively used for decades, while ensemble learning for outlier detection has only been studied recently. In this work, we design a new ensemble approach for outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Shebuti Rayana , Wen Zhong , Leman Akoglu

The scores of distance-based outlier detection methods are difficult to interpret, making it challenging to determine a cut-off threshold between normal and outlier data points without additional context. We describe a generic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 David Muhr , Michael Affenzeller , Josef Küng

Scoring systems are classification models that only require users to add, subtract and multiply a few meaningful numbers to make a prediction. These models are often used because they are practical and interpretable. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-14 Berk Ustun , Stefano Tracà , Cynthia Rudin

Spatial perception is the backbone of many robotics applications, and spans a broad range of research problems, including localization and mapping, point cloud alignment, and relative pose estimation from camera images. Robust spatial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-31 Vasileios Tzoumas , Pasquale Antonante , Luca Carlone

Notwithstanding the popularity of conventional clustering algorithms such as K-means and probabilistic clustering, their clustering results are sensitive to the presence of outliers in the data. Even a few outliers can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-27 Pedro A. Forero , Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Monitoring the performance of large shared computing systems such as the cloud computing infrastructure raises many challenging algorithmic problems. One common problem is to track users with the largest deviation from the norm (outliers),…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Chiranjeeb Buragohain , Luca Foschini , Subhash Suri

Outlier detection and cleaning are essential steps in data preprocessing to ensure the integrity and validity of data analyses. This paper focuses on outlier points within individual trajectories, i.e., points that deviate significantly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mariana M Garcez Duarte , Mahmoud Sakr

Real data often contain anomalous cases, also known as outliers. These may spoil the resulting analysis but they may also contain valuable information. In either case, the ability to detect such anomalies is essential. A useful tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Robust regression models in the presence of outliers have significant practical relevance in areas such as signal processing, financial econometrics, and energy management. Many existing robust regression methods, either grounded in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Pengyang Song , Jue Wang

Optimal stopping is the problem of deciding when to stop a stochastic system to obtain the greatest reward, arising in numerous application areas such as finance, healthcare and marketing. State-of-the-art methods for high-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Dragos Florin Ciocan , Velibor V. Mišić

The human intelligence lies in the algorithm, the nature of algorithm lies in the classification, and the classification is equal to outlier detection. A lot of algorithms have been proposed to detect outliers, meanwhile a lot of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Ching-an Hsiao , Xinchun Tian

Table reasoning with large language models (LLMs) plays a critical role in building intelligent systems capable of understanding and analyzing tabular data. Despite recent progress, existing methods still face key limitations: their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Huajian Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Yucong Luo , Xiaoyu Tao

Patterns that appear rarely or unusually in the data can be defined as outlier patterns. The basic idea behind detecting outlier patterns is comparison of their relative frequencies with frequent patterns. Their frequencies of appearance…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Archana N. , S. S. Pawar

When analysing binary data, the ease at which one can interpret results is very important. Many existing methods, however, discover either models that are difficult to read, or return so many results interpretation becomes impossible. Here,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Nikolaj Tatti , Jilles Vreeken

Many computer vision tasks involve processing large amounts of data contaminated by outliers, which need to be detected and rejected. While outlier detection methods based on robust statistics have existed for decades, only recently have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Chong You , Daniel P. Robinson , René Vidal

Anomalies (or outliers) are prevalent in real-world empirical observations and potentially mask important underlying structures. Accurate identification of anomalous samples is crucial for the success of downstream data analysis tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Ofir Lindenbaum , Yariv Aizenbud , Yuval Kluger