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Clustering analysis is one of the critical tasks in machine learning. Traditionally, clustering has been an independent task, separate from outlier detection. Due to the fact that the performance of clustering can be significantly eroded by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jiahao Deng , Eli T. Brown

We present a novel 2D convex hull peeling algorithm for outlier detection, which repeatedly removes the point on the hull that decreases the hull's area the most. To find k outliers among n points, one simply peels k points. The algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vinesh Sridhar , Rolf Svenning

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

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 a method for discovering unusual and suspicious behavior. In many real-world scenarios, the examined events can be directly linked to the actions of an adversary, such as attacks on computer networks or frauds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Olga Petrova , Karel Durkota , Galina Alperovich , Karel Horak , Michal Najman , Branislav Bosansky , Viliam Lisy

We study supervised learning algorithms in which a quantum device is used to perform a computational subroutine - either for prediction via probability estimation, or to compute a kernel via estimation of quantum states overlap. We design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ulysse Chabaud , Damian Markham , Adel Sohbi

This paper presents a novel quantum K-nearest neighbors (QKNN) algorithm, which offers improved performance over the classical k-NN technique by incorporating quantum computing (QC) techniques to enhance classification accuracy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Asif Akhtab Ronggon , Md. Saifur Rahman

We present an algorithm for measurement of $k$-local operators in a quantum state, which scales logarithmically both in the system size and the output accuracy. The key ingredients of the algorithm are a digital representation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Apoorva Patel , Anjani Priyadarsini

With the constant flow of data from vast sources over the past decades, a plethora of advanced analytical techniques have been developed to extract relevant information from different data types ranging from labeled data, quasi-labeled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Andrew Vlasic , Anh Pham

Outlier detection tasks aim at discovering potential issues or opportunities and are widely used in cybersecurity, financial security, industrial inspection, etc. To date, thousands of outlier detection algorithms have been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Qi Li

Machine-learning tasks frequently involve problems of manipulating and classifying large numbers of vectors in high-dimensional spaces. Classical algorithms for solving such problems typically take time polynomial in the number of vectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 Seth Lloyd , Masoud Mohseni , Patrick Rebentrost

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying abnormal instances or events in data sets which deviate from the norm significantly. In this study, we propose a signatures based machine learning algorithm to detect rare or unexpected items…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-09 Erdinc Akyildirim , Matteo Gambara , Josef Teichmann , Syang Zhou

We propose an anomaly detection method for multi-variate scientific data based on analysis of high-order joint moments. Using kurtosis as a reliable measure of outliers, we suggest that principal kurtosis vectors, by analogy to principal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Konduri Aditya , Hemanth Kolla , W. Philip Kegelmeyer , Timothy M. Shead , Julia Ling , Warren L. Davis

Image classification is an important task in the field of machine learning and image processing. However, the usually used classification method --- the K Nearest-Neighbor algorithm has high complexity, because its two main processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yijie Dang , Nan Jiang , Hao Hu , Zhuoxiao Ji , Wenyin Zhang

Currently, digital security mechanisms like Anomaly Detection Systems using Autoencoders (AE) show great potential for bypassing problems intrinsic to the data, such as data imbalance. Because AE use a non-trivial and nonstandardized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Luan Gonçalves Miranda , Pedro Ivo da Cruz , Murilo Bellezoni Loiola

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) is a basic machine learning (ML) algorithm, and several quantum versions of it, employing different distance metrics, have been presented in the last few years. Although the Euclidean distance is one of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Anomaly Detection (AD) is critical in data analysis, particularly within the domain of IT security. In this study, we explore the potential of Quantum Machine Learning for application to AD with special focus on the robustness to noise and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Kilian Tscharke , Maximilian Wendlinger , Sebastian Issel , Pascal Debus

On-line detection of anomalies in time series is a key technique used in various event-sensitive scenarios such as robotic system monitoring, smart sensor networks and data center security. However, the increasing diversity of data sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Yi Su , Yuhua Cui , Carsten Maple , Stephen Jarvis

This article provides a thorough meta-analysis of the anomaly detection problem. To accomplish this we first identify approaches to benchmarking anomaly detection algorithms across the literature and produce a large corpus of anomaly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Andrew Emmott , Shubhomoy Das , Thomas Dietterich , Alan Fern , Weng-Keen Wong

Here is considered a specific detection loophole, that is relevant not only to testing of quantum nonlocality, but also to some other applications of quantum computations and communications. It is described by a simple affine relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov