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This paper discusses model-agnostic searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using anomaly-detection techniques for the identification of event signatures that deviate from the Standard Model (SM). We investigate anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-26 S. V. Chekanov , W. Hopkins

We propose a new scientific application of unsupervised learning techniques to boost our ability to search for new phenomena in data, by detecting discrepancies between two datasets. These could be, for example, a simulated standard-model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrea De Simone , Thomas Jacques

Anomaly detection in massive networks has numerous theoretical and computational challenges, especially as the behavior to be detected becomes small in comparison to the larger network. This presentation focuses on recent results in three…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Benjamin A. Miller , Nicholas Arcolano , Michael M. Wolf , Nadya T. Bliss

Anomaly detection aims at detecting unexpected behaviours in the data. Because anomaly detection is usually an unsupervised task, traditional anomaly detectors learn a decision boundary by employing heuristics based on intuitions, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lorenzo Perini , Jesse Davis

This work introduces a novel deep learning-based approach for gravitational wave anomaly detection, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional matched filtering techniques in identifying unknown waveform gravitational wave signals.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jianqi Yan , Alex P. Leung , Zhiyuan Pei , David C. Y. Hui , Sangin Kim

Timely detection of concerning events is an important problem in clinical practice. In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response, such as the omission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Michal Valko , Hamed Valizadegan , Branislav Kveton , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Autoencoders are frequently used for anomaly detection, both in the unsupervised and semi-supervised settings. They rely on the assumption that when trained using the reconstruction loss, they will be able to reconstruct normal data more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Roel Bouman , Tom Heskes

Anomaly detection is an important problem in many application areas, such as network security. Many deep learning methods for unsupervised anomaly detection produce good empirical performance but lack theoretical guarantees. By casting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Tian-Yi Zhou , Matthew Lau , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

Novelty detection is a critical task in various engineering fields. Numerous approaches to novelty detection rely on supervised or semi-supervised learning, which requires labelled datasets for training. However, acquiring labelled data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ariel Priarone , Umberto Albertin , Carlo Cena , Mauro Martini , Marcello Chiaberge

Acoustic anomaly detection aims at distinguishing abnormal acoustic signals from the normal ones. It suffers from the class imbalance issue and the lacking in the abnormal instances. In addition, collecting all kinds of abnormal or unknown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Lingyu Yang , Jinyuan Mo , Haichuan Song , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

In many signal processing applications, including communications, sonar, radar, and localization, a fundamental problem is the detection of a signal of interest in background noise, known as signal detection [1] [2]. A simple version of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Tom Anders , Hiten Prakash Kothari , R. Michael Buehrer

There is an increased interest in model agnostic search strategies for physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a Deep Set Variational Autoencoder and present results on the Dark Machines Anomaly Score…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Bryan Ostdiek

Hacking and false data injection from adversaries can threaten power grids' everyday operations and cause significant economic loss. Anomaly detection in power grids aims to detect and discriminate anomalies caused by cyber attacks against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xijuan Sun , Di Wu , Arnaud Zinflou , Benoit Boulet

Anomaly detection has the potential to discover new physics in unexplored regions of the data. However, choosing the best anomaly detector for a given data set in a model-agnostic way is an important challenge which has hitherto largely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Marie Hein , Gregor Kasieczka , Michael Krämer , Louis Moureaux , Alexander Mück , David Shih

As data continues to grow in volume and complexity across domains such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, effective anomaly detection is essential for identifying irregular patterns that may signal critical issues. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jing Ren , Tao Tang , Hong Jia , Ziqi Xu , Haytham Fayek , Xiaodong Li , Suyu Ma , Xiwei Xu , Feng Xia

Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods leverage a few anomaly examples to yield drastically improved performance compared to unsupervised models. However, they still suffer from two limitations: 1) unlabeled anomalies (i.e., anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Hongzuo Xu , Yijie Wang , Guansong Pang , Songlei Jian , Ning Liu , Yongjun Wang

This paper proposes a strategy for the detection and triangulation of structural anomalies in solid media. The method revolves around the construction of sparse representations of the medium's dynamic response, obtained by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Jeffrey M. Druce , Jarvis D. Haupt , Stefano Gonella

The production of dark matter particles from confining dark sectors may lead to many novel experimental signatures. Depending on the details of the theory, dark quark production in proton-proton collisions could result in semivisible jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-14 Florencia Canelli , Annapaola de Cosa , Luc Le Pottier , Jeremi Niedziela , Kevin Pedro , Maurizio Pierini

mmWave radar enables human sensing in non-visual scenarios-e.g., through clothing or certain types of walls-where traditional cameras fail due to occlusion or privacy limitations. However, robust anomaly detection with mmWave remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Tarik Reza Toha , Shao-Jung , Lu , Mahathir Monjur , Shahriar Nirjon

Discoveries of new phenomena often involve a dedicated search for a hypothetical physics signature. Recently, novel deep learning techniques have emerged for anomaly detection in the absence of a signal prior. However, by ignoring signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Sang Eon Park , Dylan Rankin , Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Mikaeel Yunus , Philip Harris