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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Jaemin Yoo , Tiancheng Zhao , Leman Akoglu

Accuracy anomaly detection in user-level network traffic is crucial for network security. Compared with existing models that passively detect specific anomaly classes with large labeled training samples, user-level network traffic contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tongtong Feng , Qi Qi , Lingqi Guo , Jingyu Wang

Anomaly detection is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning due to the lack of label information. In this work, we propose a novel and powerful framework, dubbed as SLA$^2$P, for unsupervised anomaly detection. After…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Rongzhe Wei , Yi Xu , Yue Bai , Yun Fu

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Dealing with atypical traffic scenarios remains a challenging task in autonomous driving. However, most anomaly detection approaches cannot be trained on raw sensor data but require exposure to outlier data and powerful semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Daniel Bogdoll , Noël Ollick , Tim Joseph , Svetlana Pavlitska , J. Marius Zöllner

In [1, 2], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature extraction optimization processes for solving largescale problems and overcoming machine learning limitations. Majority of optimization algorithms that have been introduced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Hyperspectral sensing is a valuable tool for detecting anomalies and distinguishing between materials in a scene. Hyperspectral anomaly detection (HS-AD) helps characterize the captured scenes and separates them into anomaly and background…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Mazharul Hossain , Aaron Robinson , Lan Wang , Chrysanthe Preza

In line with the development of Industry 4.0, surface defect detection/anomaly detection becomes a topical subject in the industry field. Improving efficiency as well as saving labor costs has steadily become a matter of great concern in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Anomaly detection (AD) is the machine learning task of identifying highly discrepant abnormal samples by solely relying on the consistency of the normal training samples. Under the constraints of a distribution shift, the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 João B. S. Carvalho , Mengtao Zhang , Robin Geyer , Carlos Cotrini , Joachim M. Buhmann

Anomaly detection is a significant and hence well-studied problem. However, developing effective anomaly detection methods for complex and high-dimensional data remains a challenge. As Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Houssam Zenati , Manon Romain , Chuan Sheng Foo , Bruno Lecouat , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar

Anomaly detection for time-series data becomes an essential task for many data-driven applications fueled with an abundance of data and out-of-the-box machine-learning algorithms. In many real-world settings, developing a reliable anomaly…

We investigate unsupervised anomaly detection for high-dimensional data and introduce a deep metric learning (DML) based framework. In particular, we learn a distance metric through a deep neural network. Through this metric, we project the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Selim F. Yilmaz , Suleyman S. Kozat

Anomaly detection has wide applications in machine intelligence but is still a difficult unsolved problem. Major challenges include the rarity of labeled anomalies and it is a class highly imbalanced problem. Traditional unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhi Chen , Jiang Duan , Li Kang , Guoping Qiu

Exfiltration of data via email is a serious cybersecurity threat for many organizations. Detecting data exfiltration (anomaly) patterns typically requires labeling, most often done by a human annotator, to reduce the high number of false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jaturong Kongmanee , Mark Chignell , Khilan Jerath , Abhay Raman

Anomaly detection (AD) is a machine learning task that identifies anomalies by learning patterns from normal training data. In many real-world scenarios, anomalies vary in severity, from minor anomalies with little risk to severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tri Cao , Minh-Huy Trinh , Ailin Deng , Quoc-Nam Nguyen , Khoa Duong , Ngai-Man Cheung , Bryan Hooi

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection. Here, we propose a highly parallelizable quantum-inspired approach which we call SMT-AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Si Min Chan , Wenxuan Zhang , Swee Liang Wong , Joshua Lim , Dario Poletti

Unsupervised anomaly detection from high dimensional data like mobility networks is a challenging task. Study of different approaches of feature engineering from such high dimensional data have been a focus of research in this field. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Urwa Muaz , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task in computer vision. It aims to identify incorrect image data patterns which deviate from the normal ones. Conventional methods generally address AD by preparing augmented negative samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianjian Qin , Chunzhi Gu , Jun Yu , Chao Zhang

Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with applications in fraud detection, content moderation, and user behavior analysis. However, AD is relatively understudied in a natural language processing (NLP) context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yuangang Li , Jiaqi Li , Zhuo Xiao , Tiankai Yang , Yi Nian , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao