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We address the problem of sequentially selecting and observing processes from a given set to find the anomalies among them. The decision-maker observes a subset of the processes at any given time instant and obtains a noisy binary indicator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Geethu Joseph , Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar , Pramod K. Varshney

The development of analysis methods to distinguish potential beyond the Standard Model phenomena in a model-agnostic way can significantly enhance the discovery reach in collider experiments. However, the typical machine learning (ML)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Gabriel Matos , Elena Busch , Ki Ryeong Park , Julia Gonski

Learning about underlying patterns in data using latent unobserved structures to improve the accuracy of predictive models has become an active avenue of deep learning research. Most approaches cluster the original features to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Rishav Mukherjee , Jeffrey Ahearn Thompson

Detecting test data deviating from training data is a central problem for safe and robust machine learning. Likelihoods learned by a generative model, e.g., a normalizing flow via standard log-likelihood training, perform poorly as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Robert Schmier , Ullrich Köthe , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

We devise an autoencoder based strategy to facilitate anomaly detection for boosted jets, employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to do so. To overcome known limitations of GNN autoencoders, we design a symmetric decoder capable of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Oliver Atkinson , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Christoph Englert , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Anomaly detection is a classical problem in computer vision, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when datasets are highly biased towards one class (normal) due to the insufficient sample size of the other class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Energy estimation is critical to impact identification on aerospace composites, where low-velocity impacts can induce internal damage that is undetectable at the surface. Current methodologies for energy prediction are often constrained by…

Causal understanding is important in many disciplines of science and engineering, where we seek to understand how different factors in the system causally affect an experiment or situation and pave a pathway towards creating effective or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Miguel Arana-Catania , Weisi Guo

This paper presents a novel density estimation method for anomaly detection using density matrices (a powerful mathematical formalism from quantum mechanics) and Fourier features. The method can be seen as an efficient approximation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Oscar Bustos-Brinez , Joseph Gallego-Mejia , Fabio A. González

Most current methods for detecting anomalies in text concentrate on constructing models solely relying on unlabeled data. These models operate on the presumption that no labeled anomalous examples are available, which prevents them from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Anindya Sundar Das , Aravind Ajay , Sriparna Saha , Monowar Bhuyan

Anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal events by a model of normality. It plays an important role in many domains such as network intrusion detection, criminal activity identity and so on. With the rapidly growing size of accessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Chu Wang , Yan-Ming Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Novelty detection is a task of machine learning that aims at detecting novel events without a prior knowledge. In particular, its techniques can be applied to detect unexpected signals from new phenomena at colliders. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 Xu-Hui Jiang , Aurelio Juste , Ying-Ying Li , Tao Liu

Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying unusual or interesting patterns in data. A recently proposed conditional anomaly detection framework extends anomaly detection to the problem of identifying anomalous patterns on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Michal Valko , Milos Hauskrecht

A data sample containing top quark pairs ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) produced in association with a Lorentz-boosted Z or Higgs boson is used to search for signs of new physics using effective field theory. The data correspond to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-21 CMS Collaboration

We introduce Time-Conditioned Contraction Matching (TCCM), a novel method for semi-supervised anomaly detection in tabular data. TCCM is inspired by flow matching, a recent generative modeling framework that learns velocity fields between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Yuxuan Zhu , Lincen Yang , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Niki van Stein , Matthijs van Leeuwen

A web-based tool called ADFilter was developed to process collision events using autoencoders based on a deep unsupervised neural network. The autoencoders are trained on a small fraction of either collision data or Standard Model Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Sergei V. Chekanov , Wasikul Islam , Rui Zhang , Nicholas Luongo

The TeV energy region is currently being explored by both the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the Large Hadron Collider and phenomena beyond the Standard Model are extensively searched for. Large fractions of the parameter space of many models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-20 Benjamin Fuks , Josselin Proudom , Juan Rojo , Ingo Schienbein

Modern smart grids rely on dense measurement infrastructures, communication links, and intelligent field devices. Although this improves supervision and control, it also increases vulnerability to cyber-physical disruptions. Operators must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adis Alihodžić , Eva Tuba , Milan Tuba

We propose a new type of variational autoencoder to perform improved pre-processing for clustering and anomaly detection on data with a given label. Anomalies however are not known or labeled. We call our method conditional latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Erik Norlander , Alexandros Sopasakis

The random motion of molecules in living cells has consistently been reported to deviate from standard Brownian motion, a behavior coined as ``anomalous diffusion''. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) is a powerful method to…

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