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Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

As with many other tasks, neural networks prove very effective for anomaly detection purposes. However, very few deep-learning models are suited for detecting anomalies on tabular datasets. This paper proposes a novel methodology to flag…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hugo Thimonier , Fabrice Popineau , Arpad Rimmel , Bich-Liên Doan , Fabrice Daniel

Anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of web service systems. Logs and metrics contain multiple information that can reflect the system's operational state and potential anomalies. Thus, existing anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xixuan Yang , Xin Huang , Chiming Duan , Tong Jia , Shandong Dong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Anomaly detection consists in identifying, within a dataset, those samples that significantly differ from the majority of the data, representing the normal class. It has many practical applications, e.g. ranging from defective product…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Pankaj Mishra , Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

Detecting anomalies in link streams that represent various kinds of interactions is an important research topic with crucial applications. Because of the lack of ground truth data, proposed methods are mostly evaluated through their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Matthieu Latapy , Stephany Rajeh

Credit card fraud incurs a considerable cost for both cardholders and issuing banks. Contemporary methods apply machine learning-based classifiers to detect fraudulent behavior from labeled transaction records. But labeled data are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sheng Xiang , Mingzhi Zhu , Dawei Cheng , Enxia Li , Ruihui Zhao , Yi Ouyang , Ling Chen , Yefeng Zheng

Unsupervised GAD methods assume the lack of anomaly labels, i.e., whether a node is anomalous or not. One common observation we made from previous unsupervised methods is that they not only assume the absence of such anomaly labels, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Junghoon Kim , Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Junmo Lee , Chanyoung Park

Processes such as disease propagation and information diffusion often spread over some latent network structure which must be learned from observation. Given a set of unlabeled training examples representing occurrences of an event type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-09 Sriram Somanchi , Daniel B. Neill

Anomaly detection aims to identify deviations from normal patterns within data. This task is particularly crucial in dynamic graphs, which are common in applications like social networks and cybersecurity, due to their evolving structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

Credit card fraud is a major issue nowadays, costing huge money and affecting trust in financial systems. Traditional fraud detection methods often fail to detect advanced and growing fraud techniques. This study focuses on using Graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Irin Sultana , Syed Mustavi Maheen , Naresh Kshetri , Md Nasim Fardous Zim

This study explores the application of anomaly detection (AD) methods in imbalanced learning tasks, focusing on fraud detection using real online credit card payment data. We assess the performance of several recent AD methods and compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Hugo Thimonier , Fabrice Popineau , Arpad Rimmel , Bich-Liên Doan , Fabrice Daniel

In recent years, graph anomaly detection has found extensive applications in various domains such as social, financial, and communication networks. However, anomalies in graph-structured data present unique challenges, including label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Chen Zhao , Jiaan Wang , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify anomalous samples from normal ones. In this paper, a small number of anomalies are assumed to be available at the training stage, but they are assumed to be collected only from several anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Bowen Tian , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

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

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Georgios Anyfantis , Pere Barlet-Ros

This study proposes a risk pricing anomaly detection method for social network user portraits based on graph neural networks (GNNs), aiming to improve the ability to identify abnormal users in social network environments. In view of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yiwei Zhang

Anomaly detection has become an indispensable tool for modern society, applied in a wide range of applications, from detecting fraudulent transactions to malignant brain tumours. Over time, many anomaly detection techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mikael Sabuhi , Ming Zhou , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Petr Musilek

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a technique used to identify abnormal nodes within graphs, finding applications in network security, fraud detection, social media spam detection, and various other domains. A common method for GAD is Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Amit Roy , Juan Shu , Jia Li , Carl Yang , Olivier Elshocht , Jeroen Smeets , Pan Li

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential in identifying rare and often critical events in complex systems, finding applications in fields such as network intrusion detection, financial fraud detection, and fault detection in infrastructure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hao Dong , Gaëtan Frusque , Yue Zhao , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

Anomaly detection is generally acknowledged as an important problem that has already drawn attention to various domains and research areas, such as, network security. For such "classic" application domains a wide range of surveys and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Kristof Böhmer , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma