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Supervised machine learning has enabled accurate pathology detection in brain MRI, but requires training data from diseased subjects that may not be readily available in some scenarios, for example, in the case of rare diseases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Ana Lawry Aguila , Peirong Liu , Oula Puonti , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Given the temporal GPS coordinates from a large set of human agents, how can we model their mobility behavior toward effective anomaly (e.g. bad-actor or malicious behavior) detection without any labeled data? Human mobility and trajectory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Haomin Wen , Shurui Cao , Zeeshan Rasheed , Khurram Hassan Shafique , Leman Akoglu

Traditional deep learning models often lack annotated data, especially in cross-domain applications such as anomaly detection, which is critical for early disease diagnosis in medicine and defect detection in industry. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wahyu Rahmaniar , Kenji Suzuki

Anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial task in machine learning with various applications, such as detecting emerging diseases, identifying financial frauds, and detecting fake news. However, obtaining complete, accurate, and precise labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Minqi Jiang , Chaochuan Hou , Ao Zheng , Xiyang Hu , Songqiao Han , Hailiang Huang , Xiangnan He , Philip S. Yu , Yue Zhao

Confounding pathology with normal anatomical variation remains a significant challenge in unsupervised medical-image anomaly detection, resulting in numerous false positives. To enhance integration of healthy variation, we augment the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 P. Bilha Githinji , Xi Yuan , Ijaz Gul , Lian Zhang , Jinhao Xu , Zhenglin Chen , Peiwu Qin , Dongmei Yu

We introduce Unsupervised Partner Design (UPD) - a population-free, multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for robust ad-hoc teamwork that adaptively generates training partners without requiring pretrained partners or manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Constantin Ruhdorfer , Matteo Bortoletto , Victor Oei , Anna Penzkofer , Andreas Bulling

Objective: Area under the receiving operator characteristic curve (AUC) is commonly reported alongside prediction models for binary outcomes. Recent articles have raised concerns that AUC might be a misleading measure of prediction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Emily Minus , R. Yates Coley , Susan M. Shortreed , Brian D. Williamson

Anomaly detection is a ubiquitous and challenging task relevant across many disciplines. With the vital role communication networks play in our daily lives, the security of these networks is imperative for smooth functioning of society. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gopikrishna Rathinavel , Nikhil Muralidhar , Timothy O'Shea , Naren Ramakrishnan

The rise of smart factories has heightened the demand for automated maintenance, and normal-data-based anomaly detection has proved particularly effective in environments where anomaly data are scarce. This method, which does not require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Wonjun Yi , Yong-Hwa Park , Wonho Jung

Anomaly Detection (AD) in images is a fundamental computer vision problem and refers to identifying images and image substructures that deviate significantly from the norm. Popular AD algorithms commonly try to learn a model of normality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Oliver Rippel , Patrick Mertens , Dorit Merhof

Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

With the rapid expansion of machine learning and deep learning (DL), researchers are increasingly employing learning-based algorithms to alleviate diagnostic challenges across diverse medical tasks and applications. While advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zikang Xu , Fenghe Tang , Quan Quan , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning , S. Kevin Zhou

Background: Medical decision-making impacts both individual and public health. Clinical scores are commonly used among a wide variety of decision-making models for determining the degree of disease deterioration at the bedside. AutoScore…

Unsupervised image Anomaly Detection (UAD) aims to learn robust and discriminative representations of normal samples. While separate solutions per class endow expensive computation and limited generalizability, this paper focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ruiying Lu , YuJie Wu , Long Tian , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Xiyang Liu , Ruimin Hu

Undesirable biases encoded in the data are key drivers of algorithmic discrimination. Their importance is widely recognized in the algorithmic fairness literature, as well as legislation and standards on anti-discrimination in AI. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marina Ceccon , Giandomenico Cornacchia , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

Many definitions of fairness or inequity involve unobservable causal quantities that cannot be directly estimated without strong assumptions. For instance, it is particularly difficult to estimate notions of fairness that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yewon Byun , Dylan Sam , Michael Oberst , Zachary C. Lipton , Bryan Wilder

Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection (AD) is a kind of data mining task which aims at learning features from partially-labeled datasets to help detect outliers. In this paper, we classify existing semi-supervised AD methods into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Chao Chen , Dawei Wang , Feng Mao , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Areas under ROC (AUROC) and precision-recall curves (AUPRC) are common metrics for evaluating classification performance for imbalanced problems. Compared with AUROC, AUPRC is a more appropriate metric for highly imbalanced datasets. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qi Qi , Youzhi Luo , Zhao Xu , Shuiwang Ji , Tianbao Yang

Noise-inclusive fully unsupervised anomaly detection (FUAD) holds significant practical relevance. Although various methods exist to address this problem, they are limited in both performance and scalability. Our work seeks to overcome…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Chengming Liu , Fengjie Wang , Lei Shi , Zhe Zhao

The vast majority of techniques to train fair models require access to the protected attribute (e.g., race, gender), either at train time or in production. However, in many important applications this protected attribute is largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hadi Elzayn , Emily Black , Patrick Vossler , Nathanael Jo , Jacob Goldin , Daniel E. Ho