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The use of learning-based methods for optimizing cellular radio access networks (RAN) has received increasing attention in recent years. This coincides with a rapid increase in the number of cell sites worldwide, driven largely by dramatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jimmy Li , Igor Kozlov , Di Wu , Xue Liu , Gregory Dudek

Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have been proposed, adding sensitivity to unexpected signals.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Anders Andreassen , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

Anomaly detection techniques are growing in importance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), motivated by the increasing need to search for new physics in a model-agnostic way. In this work, we provide a detailed comparative study between a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Jack H. Collins , Pablo Martín-Ramiro , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

Previous studies have demonstrated the utility and applicability of machine learning techniques to jet physics. In this paper, we construct new observables for the discrimination of jets from different originating particles exclusively from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Kaustuv Datta , Andrew J. Larkoski

Learning unnormalized statistical models (e.g., energy-based models) is computationally challenging due to the complexity of handling the partition function. To eschew this complexity, noise-contrastive estimation~(NCE) has been proposed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Wei Jiang , Jiayu Qin , Lingyu Wu , Changyou Chen , Tianbao Yang , Lijun Zhang

We propose the Autoencoding Binary Classifiers (ABC), a novel supervised anomaly detector based on the Autoencoder (AE). There are two main approaches in anomaly detection: supervised and unsupervised. The supervised approach accurately…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-27 Yuki Yamanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Hiroshi Takahashi , Masanori Yamada , Sekitoshi Kanai

Anomaly detection presents a unique challenge in machine learning, due to the scarcity of labeled anomaly data. Recent work attempts to mitigate such problems by augmenting training of deep anomaly detection models with additional labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ziyu Ye , Yuxin Chen , Haitao Zheng

We apply an Adversarially Learned Anomaly Detection (ALAD) algorithm to the problem of detecting new physics processes in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Anomaly detection based on ALAD matches performances reached by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-06 Oliver Knapp , Guenther Dissertori , Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

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

In this paper, we propose POTATOES (Partitioning OverfiTting AuTOencoder EnSemble), a new method for unsupervised outlier detection (UOD). More precisely, given any autoencoder for UOD, this technique can be used to improve its accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Boris Lorbeer , Max Botler

High Energy collider experiments are moving to the highest precision frontier quickly. The predictions of observables are based on the factorization formula which helps to connect small to large distances. These predictions can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 David F. Renteria-Estrada , Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , G. F. R. Sborlini , Pia Zurita

In Federated Learning (FL), anomaly detection (AD) is a challenging task due to the decentralized nature of data and the presence of non-IID data distributions. This study introduces a novel federated threshold calculation method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sofiane Laridi , Gregory Palmer , Kam-Ming Mark Tam

Designing model-independent anomaly detection algorithms for analyzing LHC data remains a central challenge in the search for new physics, due to the high dimensionality of collider events. In this work, we develop a graph autoencoder as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Jack Y. Araz , Dimitrios Athanasakos , Mateusz Ploskon , Felix Ringer

Recent advances in anomaly generation approaches alleviate the effect of data insufficiency on task of anomaly localization. While effective, most of them learn multiple large generative models on different datasets and cumbersome anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ying Zhao

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at collider experiments requires model-independent strategies to avoid missing possible discoveries of unexpected signals. Anomaly detection (AD) techniques offer a promising approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Fernando Abreu de Souza , Maura Barros , Nuno Filipe Castro , Miguel Crispim Romão , Céu Neiva , Rute Pedro

Anomaly segmentation is an essential capability for safety-critical robotics applications that must be aware of unexpected events. Normalizing flows (NFs), a class of generative models, are a promising approach for this task due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chang Won Lee , Selina Leveugle , Svetlana Stolpner , Chris Langley , Paul Grouchy , Jonathan Kelly , Steven L. Waslander

We propose a physics-informed anomaly detection framework for collider data based on a Bayesian latent diffusion model. Our method combines a probabilistic encoder with diffusion dynamics in the latent space, allowing for stable and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-27 Jigar Patel , Tommaso Dorigo

Recently, advances in machine learning techniques have attracted the attention of the research community to build intrusion detection systems (IDS) that can detect anomalies in the network traffic. Most of the research works, however, do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tara Salman , Deval Bhamare , Aiman Erbad , Raj Jain , Mohammed Samaka

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

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