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Many real-world datasets are labeled with natural orders, i.e., ordinal labels. Ordinal regression is a method to predict ordinal labels that finds a wide range of applications in data-rich domains, such as natural, health and social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lu Wang , Dongxiao Zhu

This paper presents a fast methodology, called ROBOUT, to identify outliers in a response variable conditional on a set of linearly related predictors, retrieved from a large granular dataset. ROBOUT is shown to be effective and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Matteo Farnè , Angelos Vouldis

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have achieved great success in solving many challenging tasks while their black-box nature hinders interpretability and real-world applicability, making it difficult for human experts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jingdi Chen , Hanhan Zhou , Yongsheng Mei , Carlee Joe-Wong , Gina Adam , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Tian Lan

Anomaly detectors are often used to produce a ranked list of statistical anomalies, which are examined by human analysts in order to extract the actual anomalies of interest. Unfortunately, in realworld applications, this process can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Shubhomoy Das , Weng-Keen Wong , Alan Fern , Thomas G. Dietterich , Md Amran Siddiqui

Experiments at particle colliders are the primary source of insight into physics at microscopic scales. Searches at these facilities often rely on optimization of analyses targeting specific models of new physics. Increasingly, however,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-16 Marat Freytsis , Maxim Perelstein , Yik Chuen San

Given an unlabeled dataset, wherein we have access only to pairwise similarities (or distances), how can we effectively (1) detect outliers, and (2) annotate/tag the outliers by type? Outlier detection has a large literature, yet we find a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Guilherme D. F. Silva , Leman Akoglu , Robson L. F. Cordeiro

Outlier detection (OD) aims to identify abnormal instances, known as outliers or anomalies, by learning typical patterns of normal data, or inliers. Performing OD under an unsupervised regime-without any information about anomalous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Minseo Kang , Seunghwan Park , Dongha Kim

We propose a new outlier detection method for multi-dimensional data. The method detects outliers based on vector cosine similarity, using a new dataset constructed by adding a dimension with zero values to the original data. When a point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhongyang Shen

Recognition of anomalous events is a challenging but critical task in many scientific and industrial fields, especially when the properties of anomalies are unknown. In this paper, we introduce a new anomaly concept called "unicorn" or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zsigmond Benkő , Tamás Bábel , Zoltán Somogyvári

Most real-world IoT data analysis tasks, such as clustering and anomaly event detection, are unsupervised and highly susceptible to the presence of outliers. In addition to sporadic scattered outliers caused by factors such as faulty sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiqun Zhang , Zexi Tan , Xiaopeng Luo , Yunlin Liu

The article describes a practical method for detecting outlier database connections in real-time. Outlier connections are detected with a specified level of confidence. The method is based on generalized security rules and a simple but…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Leonid Rodniansky , Tania Butovsky , Mikhail Shpak

The problem of outlier detection is extremely challenging in many domains such as text, in which the attribute values are typically non-negative, and most values are zero. In such cases, it often becomes difficult to separate the outliers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Hyenkyun Woo , Charu C. Aggarwal , Haesun Park

The unsupervised outlier detection (UOD) problem refers to a task to identify inliers given training data which contain outliers as well as inliers, without any labeled information about inliers and outliers. It has been widely recognized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-17 Dongha Kim , Jaesung Hwang , Jongjin Lee , Kunwoong Kim , Yongdai Kim

A new anomaly detection method called kernel outlier detection (KOD) is proposed. It is designed to address challenges of outlier detection in high-dimensional settings. The aim is to overcome limitations of existing methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Can Hakan Dağıdır , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Extracting tables from documents is a critical task across various industries, especially on business documents like invoices and reports. Existing systems based on DEtection TRansformer (DETR) such as TAble TRansformer (TATR), offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eliott Thomas , Mickael Coustaty , Aurelie Joseph , Gaspar Deloin , Elodie Carel , Vincent Poulain D'Andecy , Jean-Marc Ogier

New biological assays like Perturb-seq link highly parallel CRISPR interventions to a high-dimensional transcriptomic readout, providing insight into gene regulatory networks. Causal gene regulatory networks can be represented by directed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-22 Albert Xue , Jingyou Rao , Sriram Sankararaman , Harold Pimentel

Outlier detection identifies data points that significantly deviate from the majority of the data distribution. Explaining outliers is crucial for understanding the underlying factors that contribute to their detection, validating their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tommaso Amico , Pernille Matthews , Lena Krieger , Arthur Zimek , Ira Assent

Reconstruction error is a prevalent score used to identify anomalous samples when data are modeled by generative models, such as (variational) auto-encoders or generative adversarial networks. This score relies on the assumption that normal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 Václav Šmídl , Jan Bím , Tomáš Pevný

Outlier detection is the identification of points in a dataset that do not conform to the norm. Outlier detection is highly sensitive to the choice of the detection algorithm and the feature subspace used by the algorithm. Extracting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Yanjie Fu , Charu Aggarwal , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Deepak S. Turaga , Hui Xiong

It is important to be able to detect and classify malicious network traffic flows such as DDoS attacks from benign flows. Normally the task is performed by using supervised classification algorithms. In this paper we analyze the usage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Quang-Vinh Dang