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We focus on the problem of unsupervised cell outlier detection and repair in mixed-type tabular data. Traditional methods are concerned only with detecting which rows in the dataset are outliers. However, identifying which cells are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Simão Eduardo , Alfredo Nazábal , Christopher K. I. Williams , Charles Sutton

Time series anomaly detection is important in modern large-scale systems and is applied in a variety of domains to analyze and monitor the operation of diverse systems. Unsupervised approaches have received widespread interest, as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Buang Zhang , Tung Kieu , Xiangfei Qiu , Chenjuan Guo , Jilin Hu , Aoying Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Bin Yang

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

Anomalies (or outliers) are prevalent in real-world empirical observations and potentially mask important underlying structures. Accurate identification of anomalous samples is crucial for the success of downstream data analysis tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Ofir Lindenbaum , Yariv Aizenbud , Yuval Kluger

Achieving resilient and high-quality manufacturing requires reliable data-driven anomaly detection methods that are capable of addressing differences in behaviors among different individual machines which are nominally the same and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yangmeng Li , Kei Sano , Toshihiro Kitao , Ryoji Anzaki , Yukiya Saitoh , Hironori Moki , Dragan Djurdjanovic

Methods for unsupervised anomaly detection suffer from the fact that the data is unlabeled, making it difficult to assess the optimality of detection algorithms. Ensemble learning has shown exceptional results in classification and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-26 Edward Yu , Parth Parekh

Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

An outlier is an observation or a data point that is far from rest of the data points in a given dataset or we can be said that an outlier is away from the center of mass of observations. Presence of outliers can skew statistical measures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Amulya Agarwal , Nitin Gupta

Advances in sensor technology have enabled the collection of large-scale datasets. Such datasets can be extremely noisy and often contain a significant amount of outliers that result from sensor malfunction or human operation faults. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Zhenhui Li , Daniel Kifer

An innovations sequence of a time series is a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with which the original time series has a causal representation. The innovation at a time is statistically independent of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-01 Xinyi Wang , Lang Tong

AutoEncoders (AEs) are commonly used for machine learning tasks due to their intrinsic learning ability. This unique characteristic can be capitalized for Outlier Detection (OD). However conventional AE-based methods face the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Xu Tan , Jiawei Yang , Junqi Chen , Sylwan Rahardja , Susanto Rahardja

Both humans and machine learning models learn from experience, particularly in safety- and reliability-critical domains. While psychology seeks to understand human cognition, the field of Explainable AI (XAI) develops methods to interpret…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roussel Rahman , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Wan-Lin Hu

Outliers are ubiquitous in modern data sets. Distance-based techniques are a popular non-parametric approach to outlier detection as they require no prior assumptions on the data generating distribution and are simple to implement. Scaling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-04 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Andreas Krause

This paper introduces a hybrid attention and autoencoder (AE) model for unsupervised online anomaly detection in time series. The autoencoder captures local structural patterns in short embeddings, while the attention model learns long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Seyed Amirhossein Najafi , Mohammad Hassan Asemani , Peyman Setoodeh

Outlier detection aims to identify unusual data instances that deviate from expected patterns. The outlier detection is particularly challenging when outliers are context dependent and when they are defined by unusual combinations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Charmgil Hong , Milos Hauskrecht

The development of machine learning applications has increased significantly in recent years, motivated by the remarkable ability of learning-powered systems to discover and generalize intricate patterns hidden in massive datasets. Modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Evandro S. Ortigossa , Fábio F. Dias , Brian Barr , Claudio T. Silva , Luis Gustavo Nonato

As large-scale time-series data can easily be found in real-world applications, multivariate time-series anomaly detection has played an essential role in diverse industries. It enables productivity improvement and maintenance cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Heejeong Choi , Subin Kim , Pilsung Kang

Machine learning methods often need a large amount of labeled training data. Since the training data is assumed to be the ground truth, outliers can severely degrade learned representations and performance of trained models. Here we apply…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-24 Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Jian Li , Sergul Aydore , Richard M. Leahy

Machine learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods are being adopted rapidly, especially in computer network security, such as fraud detection, network anomaly detection, intrusion detection, and much more. However, the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an emerging research field bringing transparency to highly complex and opaque machine learning (ML) models. Despite the development of a multitude of methods to explain the decisions of black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Leander Weber , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Alexander Binder , Wojciech Samek