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Anomaly is defined as a state of the system that do not conform to the normal behavior. For example, the emission of neutrons in a nuclear reactor channel above the specified threshold is an anomaly. Big data refers to the data set that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chandresh Kumar Maurya

When neural networks process images which do not resemble the distribution seen during training, so called out-of-distribution images, they often make wrong predictions, and do so too confidently. The capability to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Marc Masana , Idoia Ruiz , Joan Serrat , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio M. Lopez

Anomaly detection is a longstanding and active research area that has many applications in domains such as finance, security, and manufacturing. However, the efficiency and performance of anomaly detection algorithms are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yang Cao , Haolong Xiang , Hang Zhang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

Modern machine learning is driving a paradigm shift in particle physics phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider. This short review examines the transformative role of machine learning across the entire theoretical prediction pipeline,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Maria Ubiali

In the realm of dijet searches in high-energy physics, a significant challenge has emerged: with experiments producing more and more data, the traditional methods of using analytic functions to describe dijet mass spectra start to fail. To…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-14 Sergei V. Chekanov , Rui Zhang

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is an exciting tool that has received significant recent attention due in part to advances in quantum computing hardware. While there is currently no formal guarantee that QML is superior to classical ML for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sulaiman Alvi , Christian Bauer , Benjamin Nachman

Machine learning techniques in particle physics are most powerful when they are trained directly on data, to avoid sensitivity to theoretical uncertainties or an underlying bias on the expected signal. To be able to train on data in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao , Anton van den Hengel

Anomaly detection is to recognize samples that differ in some respect from the training observations. These samples which do not conform to the distribution of normal data are called outliers or anomalies. In real-world anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

We consider the problem of anomaly detection in images, and present a new detection technique. Given a sample of images, all known to belong to a "normal" class (e.g., dogs), we show how to train a deep neural model that can detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Izhak Golan , Ran El-Yaniv

This work presents advancements in model-agnostic searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the application of event-based anomaly detection techniques utilizing unsupervised machine learning. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Wasikul Islam , Sergei Chekanov , Nicholas Luongo

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in machine learning that involves identifying unusual patterns or events in data. It has numerous applications in various domains such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. With the advent of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Julien Mellaerts

When recording the movement of individual animals, cells or molecules one will often observe changes in their diffusive behaviour at certain points in time along their trajectory. In order to capture the different diffusive modes assembled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-21 Henrik Seckler , Ralf Metzler

One of the contemporary challenges in anomaly detection is the ability to detect, and differentiate between, both point and collective anomalies within a data sequence or time series. The anomaly package has been developed to provide users…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-30 Alex Fisch , Daniel Grose , Idris A. Eckley , Paul Fearnhead , Lawrence Bardwell

Depending on the point of view, modern machine learning is either providing an unprecedented boost to the numerical methods of particle physics, or it is transforming the way we do science with vast amounts of complex data. In any case, it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-25 Tilman Plehn , Anja Butter , Barry Dillon , Theo Heimel , Claudius Krause , Ramon Winterhalder

The advent of quantum computers has justified the development of quantum machine learning algorithms , based on the adaptation of the principles of machine learning to the formalism of qubits. Among such quantum algorithms, anomaly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Sebastiano Corli , Lorenzo Moro , Daniele Dragoni , Massimiliano Dispenza , Enrico Prati

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

The paper explores the use of various machine learning methods to search for heterogeneous or atypical structures on astronomical maps. The study was conducted on the maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation from the Planck mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 I. A. Karkin , A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

Machine Learning is a powerful tool to reveal and exploit correlations in a multi-dimensional parameter space. Making predictions from such correlations is a highly non-trivial task, in particular when the details of the underlying dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Philip Harris , Michael Spannowsky

Methods for anomaly detection of new physics processes are often limited to low-dimensional spaces due to the difficulty of learning high-dimensional probability densities. Particularly at the constituent level, incorporating desirable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-06 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman