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Online Active Learning (OAL) aims to manage unlabeled datastream by selectively querying the label of data. OAL is applicable to many real-world problems, such as anomaly detection in health-care and finance. In these problems, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yifan Zhang , Peilin Zhao , Shuaicheng Niu , Qingyao Wu , Jiezhang Cao , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

In the era of big data, many big organizations are integrating machine learning into their work pipelines to facilitate data analysis. However, the performance of their trained models is often restricted by limited and imbalanced data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Jiaying Zhou , Jie Ding , Yi Zhou

Detecting anomalies at the time of happening is vital in environments like buildings and homes to identify potential cyber-attacks. This paper discussed the various mechanisms to detect anomalies as soon as they occur. We shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yasar Majib , Mahmoud Barhamgi , Behzad Momahed Heravi , Sharadha Kariyawasam , Charith Perera

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

Detecting anomalies has been a fundamental approach in detecting potentially fraudulent activities. Tasked with detection of illegal timber trade that threatens ecosystems and economies and association with other illegal activities, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Debanjan Datta , Sathappan Muthiah , Naren Ramakrishnan

This paper addresses the increasingly prominent problem of anomaly detection in distributed systems. It proposes a detection method based on federated contrastive learning. The goal is to overcome the limitations of traditional centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Renzi Meng , Heyi Wang , Yumeng Sun , Qiyuan Wu , Lian Lian , Renhan Zhang

Deviations from expected behavior during runtime, known as anomalies, have become more common due to the systems' complexity, especially for microservices. Consequently, analyzing runtime monitoring data, such as logs, traces for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Monika Steidl , Benedikt Dornauer , Michael Felderer , Rudolf Ramler , Mircea-Cristian Racasan , Marko Gattringer

The growing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks pose critical challenges to network security, particularly in detecting diverse intrusion types within imbalanced datasets. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nisith Dissanayake , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Methods from machine learning are being applied to design Industrial Control Systems resilient to cyber-attacks. Such methods focus on two major areas: the detection of intrusions at the network-level using the information acquired through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Muhammad Azmi Umer , Khurum Nazir Junejo , Muhammad Taha Jilani , Aditya P. Mathur

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) log events and traces of activities during the execution of a process. Anomalies are defined as deviation or departure from the normal or common order. Anomaly detection in business process logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Ashish Sureka

Detecting anomalies in business processes is crucial for ensuring operational success. While many existing methods rely on statistical frequency to detect anomalies, it's important to note that infrequent behavior doesn't necessarily imply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wei Guan , Jian Cao , Jianqi Gao , Haiyan Zhao , Shiyou Qian

With the widespread adoption of cloud services, especially the extensive deployment of plenty of Web applications, it is important and challenging to detect anomalies from the packet payload. For example, the anomalies in the packet payload…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Jiaxin Liu , Xucheng Song , Yingjie Zhou , Xi Peng , Yanru Zhang , Pei Liu , Dapeng Wu

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

Unsupervised machine learning, and in particular data clustering, is a powerful approach for the analysis of datasets and identification of characteristic features occurring throughout a dataset. It is gaining popularity across scientific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Maria El Abbassi , Jan Overbeck , Oliver Braun , Michel Calame , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Mickael L. Perrin

This paper examines the effectiveness of combining active learning and transfer learning for anomaly detection in cross-domain time-series data. Our results indicate that there is an interaction between clustering and active learning and in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 John D. Kelleher , Matthew Nicholson , Rahul Agrahari , Clare Conran

E-commerce companies deal with a high volume of customer service requests daily. While a simple annotation system is often used to summarize the topics of customer contacts, thoroughly exploring each specific issue can be challenging. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shu-Ting Pi , Sidarth Srinivasan , Yuying Zhu , Michael Yang , Qun Liu

With the widely used smart meters in the energy sector, anomaly detection becomes a crucial mean to study the unusual consumption behaviors of customers, and to discover unexpected events of using energy promptly. Detecting consumption…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Xiufeng Liu , Per Sieverts Nielsen

Truly unsupervised approaches for time series anomaly detection are rare in the literature. Those that exist suffer from a poorly set threshold, which hampers detection performance, while others, despite claiming to be unsupervised, need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lucas Correia , Jan-Christoph Goos , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

This study investigates the effectiveness of unsupervised outlier detection methods in audit analytics, utilizing USA spending data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as a case example. We employ and compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Buhe Li , Berkay Kaplan , Maksym Lazirko , Aleksandr Kogan

Anomaly detection seeks to identify unusual phenomena, a central task in science and industry. The task is inherently unsupervised as anomalies are unexpected and unknown during training. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Eliahu Horwitz , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen