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The core challenge in unsupervised anomaly detection is identifying abnormal patterns without prior knowledge of their characteristics. While existing methods have addressed aspects of this problem, they often struggle to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , Nicholas G. Murray , Alireza Tavakkoli

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task of critical importance across numerous domains. Current systems increasingly operate in rapidly evolving environments that generate diverse yet interconnected data modalities -- such as time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhongyuan Wu , Jingyuan Wang , Zexuan Cheng , Yilong Zhou , Weizhi Wang , Juhua Pu , Chao Li , Changqing Ma

Unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) is critical for a wide range of practical applications, from network security to health and medical tools. Due to the diversity of problems, no single algorithm has been found to be superior for all AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Małgorzata Gutowska , Suzanne Little , Andrew McCarren

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) plays an important role in modern data analytics and it is crucial to provide simple yet effective and guaranteed UAD algorithms for real applications. In this paper, we present a novel UAD method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wei Dai , Kai Hwang , Jicong Fan

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a critical task in graph machine learning, with the primary objective of identifying anomalous nodes that deviate significantly from the majority. This task is widely applied in various real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Zhongying Zhao , Guanjie Zheng , Lei Cao , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

3D Anomaly Detection (AD) has shown great potential in detecting anomalies or defects of high-precision industrial products. However, existing methods are typically trained in a class-specific manner and also lack the capability of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haoquan Lu , Hanzhe Liang , Jie Zhang , Chenxi Hu , Jinbao Wang , Can Gao

We introduce Neural Contextual Anomaly Detection (NCAD), a framework for anomaly detection on time series that scales seamlessly from the unsupervised to supervised setting, and is applicable to both univariate and multivariate time series.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Chris U. Carmona , François-Xavier Aubet , Valentin Flunkert , Jan Gasthaus

Unsupervised aspect detection (UAD) aims at automatically extracting interpretable aspects and identifying aspect-specific segments (such as sentences) from online reviews. However, recent deep learning-based topic models, specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tian Shi , Liuqing Li , Ping Wang , Chandan K. Reddy

Existing anomaly detection (AD) methods often treat the modality and class as independent factors. Although this paradigm has enriched the development of AD research branches and produced many specialized models, it has also led to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuan Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Hanqi Liu , Jiaming Zuo , Huchuan Lu , Xiaoqi Zhao

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) seeks to localize the anomaly mask of an input image with respect to normal samples. Either by reconstructing normal counterparts (reconstruction-based) or by learning an image feature embedding space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Zhe Zhang , Mingxiu Cai , Hanxiao Wang , Gaochang Wu , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

Continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring via wearable devices is vital for early cardiovascular disease detection. However, deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained microcontrollers faces reliability challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mustafa Fuad Rifet Ibrahim , Maurice Meijer , Alexander Schlaefer , Peer Stelldinger

The focus of this study is on Unsupervised Continual Learning (UCL), as it presents an alternative to Supervised Continual Learning which needs high-quality manual labeled data. The experiments under the UCL paradigm indicate a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chen Cheng , Jingkuan Song , Xiaosu Zhu , Junchen Zhu , Lianli Gao , Hengtao Shen

Most advanced unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods rely on modeling feature representations of frozen encoder networks pre-trained on large-scale datasets, e.g. ImageNet. However, the features extracted from the encoders that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jia Guo , Shuai Lu , Lize Jia , Weihang Zhang , Huiqi Li

Conventional unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods build separate models for each object category. Recent studies have proposed to train a unified model for multiple classes, namely model-unified UAD. However, such methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jia Guo , Haonan Han , Shuai Lu , Weihang Zhang , Huiqi Li

Deep unsupervised approaches are gathering increased attention for applications such as pathology detection and segmentation in medical images since they promise to alleviate the need for large labeled datasets and are more generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ioannis Lagogiannis , Felix Meissen , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) based on deep generative modelling has been increasingly explored for identifying pathological brain abnormalities without requiring voxel-level annotations. By learning the distribution of healthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Youwan Mahé , Elise Bannier , Stéphanie Leplaideur , Elisa Fromont , Francesca Galassi

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) is a widely adopted approach in industry due to rare anomaly occurrences and data imbalance. A desirable characteristic of an UAD model is contained generalization ability which excels in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 YeongHyeon Park , Sungho Kang , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeonho Jeong , Hyunkyu Park , Hyeong Seok Kim , Juneho Yi

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to detect defective parts of a sample by having access, during training, to a set of normal, i.e. defect-free, data. It has many applications in fields, such as industrial inspection or medical imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Robin Trombetta , Carole Lartizien

Fully Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (FUAD) is a practical extension of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD), aiming to detect anomalies without any labels even when the training set may contain anomalous samples. To achieve FUAD, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinyue Liu , Jianyuan Wang , Biao Leng , Shuo Zhang

Contrastive Analysis (CA) detects anomalies by contrasting patterns unique to a target group (e.g., unhealthy subjects) from those in a background group (e.g., healthy subjects). In the context of brain MRIs, existing CA approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Cristiano Patrício , Carlo Alberto Barbano , Attilio Fiandrotti , Riccardo Renzulli , Marco Grangetto , Luis F. Teixeira , João C. Neves