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We have designed a powerful new algorithm to detect stellar streams in an automated and systematic way. The algorithm, which we call the STREAMFINDER, is well suited for finding dynamically cold and thin stream structures that may lie along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo Ibata

Weakly-supervised anomaly detection can outperform existing unsupervised methods with the assistance of a very small number of labeled anomalies, which attracts increasing attention from researchers. However, existing weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xu Tan , Junqi Chen , Sylwan Rahardja , Jiawei Yang , Susanto Rahardja

Detecting anomalies in radio astronomy is challenging due to the vast amounts of data and the rarity of labeled anomalous examples. Addressing this challenge requires efficient methods capable of identifying unusual radio galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Steven Ndung'u , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , George Azzopardi

Anomaly detection is critical for finding suspicious behavior in innumerable systems. We need to detect anomalies in real-time, i.e. determine if an incoming entity is anomalous or not, as soon as we receive it, to minimize the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Siddharth Bhatia

The Gaia dataset has revealed many intricate Milky Way substructures in exquisite detail, including moving groups and the phase spiral. Precise characterisation of these features and detailed comparisons to theoretical models require…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Ziyang Yan , Jason L. Sanders

Image anomaly detection consists in finding images with anomalous, unusual patterns with respect to a set of normal data. Anomaly detection can be applied to several fields and has numerous practical applications, e.g. in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Claudio Piciarelli , Pankaj Mishra , Gian Luca Foresti

In the era of big astronomical surveys, our ability to leverage artificial intelligence algorithms simultaneously for multiple datasets will open new avenues for scientific discovery. Unfortunately, simply training a deep neural network on…

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Anomalies are ubiquitous in all scientific fields and can express an unexpected event due to incomplete knowledge about the data distribution or an unknown process that suddenly comes into play and distorts observations. Due to such events'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Alperen Kantarci , Şeymanur Akti , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Giuseppe Amato

Narrow stellar streams in the Milky Way halo are uniquely sensitive to dark-matter subhalos, but many of these subhalos may be tidally disrupted. I calculate the interaction between stellar and dark-matter streams using analytical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-30 Jo Bovy

We present an anomaly detection method using Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) on optical galaxy images from the wide-field survey conducted with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i. The WGAN is…

Anomaly detection is defined as the problem of finding data points that do not follow the patterns of the majority. Among the various proposed methods for solving this problem, classification-based methods, including one-class Support…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Amir Hossein Noormohammadia , Seyed Ali MirHassania , Farnaz Hooshmand Khaligh

Formulating learning systems for the detection of real-world anomalous events using only video-level labels is a challenging task mainly due to the presence of noisy labels as well as the rare occurrence of anomalous events in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

With a focus on abnormal events contained within untrimmed videos, there is increasing interest among researchers in video anomaly detection. Among different video anomaly detection scenarios, weakly-supervised video anomaly detection poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yidan Fan , Yongxin Yu , Wenhuan Lu , Yahong Han

At the crossway of machine learning and data analysis, anomaly detection aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Romain Valla , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims to find the nodes whose behaviors are significantly different from other majority nodes. Generally, network data contains information about relationships between entities, and the anomaly is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Enbo He , Yitong Hao , Yue Zhang , Guisheng Yin , Lina Yao

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Chieh-An Lin

The development of synoptic sky surveys has led to a massive amount of data for which resources needed for analysis are beyond human capabilities. To process this information and to extract all possible knowledge, machine learning…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Isadora Nun , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas , Dae-Won Kim

We propose a novel method utilizing stellar kinematic data to detect low-mass substructure in the Milky Way's dark matter halo. By probing characteristic wakes that a passing dark matter subhalo leaves in the phase space distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Malte Buschmann , Joachim Kopp , Benjamin R. Safdi , Chih-Liang Wu

A machine-learning-based method is developed to identify objects with unusual stellar spectra. The method employs an autoencoder, a neural network trained to compress spectral data into a low-dimensional representation and subsequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Akihiro Suzuki