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Classifying stars, galaxies, and quasars is essential for understanding cosmic structure and evolution; however, the vast data from modern surveys make manual classification impractical, while supervised learning methods remain constrained…

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How can we discover objects we did not know existed within the large datasets that now abound in astronomy? We present an outlier detection algorithm that we developed, based on an unsupervised Random Forest. We test the algorithm on more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Dalya Baron , Dovi Poznanski

We propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Unsupervised anomaly detection with localization has many practical applications when labeling is infeasible and, moreover, when anomaly examples are completely missing in the train data. While recently proposed models for such data setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Denis Gudovskiy , Shun Ishizaka , Kazuki Kozuka

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying cases, or groups of cases, that are in some way unusual and do not fit the general patterns present in the dataset. Numerous algorithms use discretization of numerical data in their detection…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ralph Foorthuis

The next generation of telescopes such as the SKA and the Rubin Observatory will produce enormous data sets, requiring automated anomaly detection to enable scientific discovery. Here, we present an overview and friendly user guide to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett

Resonant anomaly detection is a promising framework for model-independent searches for new particles. Weakly supervised resonant anomaly detection methods compare data with a potential signal against a template of the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Tobias Golling , Samuel Klein , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

Weak supervision (WS) is a rich set of techniques that produce pseudolabels by aggregating easily obtained but potentially noisy label estimates from a variety of sources. WS is theoretically well understood for binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Harit Vishwakarma , Nicholas Roberts , Frederic Sala

The availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben

The plethora of space-borne and ground-based observatories has provided astrophysicists with an unprecedented volume of data, which can only be processed at scale using advanced computing algorithms. Consequently, ensuring the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mahsa Khazaei , Azim Ahmadzadeh , Alexei Pevtsov , Luca Bertello , Alexander Pevtsov

Online unsupervised detection of anomalies is crucial to guarantee the correct operation of cyber-physical systems and the safety of humans interacting with them. State-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning via neural networks…

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We propose a machine learning approach to the blind detection of extragalactic point sources on maps of the temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. Using realistic simulations of the microwave sky as seen by Planck, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 P. Diego-Palazuelos , R. B. Barreiro , P. Vielva , D. Balbás , M. López-Caniego , D. Herranz , B. Casaponsa

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) enables finding an object using a dataset without any localization information. By simply training a classification model using only image-level annotations, the feature map of the model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jeesoo Kim , Junsuk Choe , Sangdoo Yun , Nojun Kwak

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

Anomaly detection has various applications including condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. The objective is to sense the environment, learn the normal system state, and then periodically classify whether the instantaneous state deviates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Kiril Ralinovski , Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

The Gaia astrometric mission may offer an unprecedented opportunity to discover new tidal streams in the Galactic halo. To test this, we apply nGC3, a great-circle-cell count method that combines position and proper motion data to identify…

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Curation of large fully supervised datasets has become one of the major roadblocks for machine learning. Weak supervision provides an alternative to supervised learning by training with cheap, noisy, and possibly correlated labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Selecting informative data points for expert feedback can significantly improve the performance of anomaly detection (AD) in various contexts, such as medical diagnostics or fraud detection. In this paper, we determine a set of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Wide-field time domain facilities detect transient events in large numbers through difference imaging. For example, Zwicky Transient Facility produces alerts for hundreds of thousands of transient events per night, a rate set to be dwarfed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 D. Mistry , C. M. Copperwheat , M. J. Darnley , I. Olier

In the coming years, next-generation space-based infrared observatories will significantly increase our samples of rare massive stars, representing a tremendous opportunity to leverage modern statistical tools and methods to test massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein , James R. A. Davenport , Daniela Huppenkothen , Emily M. Levesque