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In this article, we propose using deep learning and transformer architectures combined with classical machine learning algorithms to detect and identify text anomalies in texts. Deep learning model provides a very crucial context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amir Jafari

Human and model-generated texts can be distinguished by examining the magnitude of likelihood in language. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult as language model's capabilities of generating human-like texts keep evolving. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yang Xu , Yu Wang , Hao An , Zhichen Liu , Yongyuan Li

We investigate the possibilities of employing dictionary learning to address the requirements of most anomaly detection applications, such as absence of supervision, online formulations, low false positive rates. We present new results of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Paul Irofti , Andra Băltoiu

In the finance sector, studies focused on anomaly detection are often associated with time-series and transactional data analytics. In this paper, we lay out the opportunities for applying anomaly and deviation detection methods to text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Armineh Nourbakhsh , Grace Bang

Anomaly detection is the process of finding data points that deviate from a baseline. In a real-life setting, anomalies are usually unknown or extremely rare. Moreover, the detection must be accomplished in a timely manner or the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mariem Ben Fadhel , Kofi Nyarko

Detecting anomalies or out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is critical for maintaining the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their effectiveness not only in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ruiyao Xu , Kaize Ding

Despite significant progress in text anomaly detection for web applications such as spam filtering and fake news detection, existing methods are fundamentally limited to document-level analysis, unable to identify which specific parts of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yang Cao , Bicheng Yu , Sikun Yang , Ming Liu , Yujiu Yang

As LLMs grow in capability, the task of supervising LLMs becomes more challenging. Supervision failures can occur if LLMs are sensitive to factors that supervisors are unaware of. We investigate Mechanistic Anomaly Detection (MAD) as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 David O. Johnston , Arkajyoti Chakraborty , Nora Belrose

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ankan Bhunia , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen

In the fields of statistics and unsupervised machine learning a fundamental and well-studied problem is anomaly detection. Anomalies are difficult to define, yet many algorithms have been proposed. Underlying the approaches is the nebulous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Nassir Mohammad

Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation identification, spam detection and content moderation, etc. Despite significant advances in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Feng Xiao , Jicong Fan

Grammaticality and likelihood are distinct notions in human language. Pretrained language models (LMs), which are probabilistic models of language fitted to maximize corpus likelihood, generate grammatically well-formed text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yingshan Susan Wang , Linlu Qiu , Zhaofeng Wu , Roger P. Levy , Yoon Kim

Text anomaly detection is crucial for identifying spam, misinformation, and offensive language in natural language processing tasks. Despite the growing adoption of embedding-based methods, their effectiveness and generalizability across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yang Cao , Sikun Yang , Chen Li , Haolong Xiang , Lianyong Qi , Bo Liu , Rongsheng Li , Ming Liu

We propose a novel use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as unsupervised anomaly detectors in particle physics. Using lightweight LLM-like networks with encoder-based architectures trained to reconstruct background events via masked-token…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-28 Ambre Visive , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Sascha Caron

Language technologies that accurately model the dynamics of events must perform commonsense reasoning. Existing work evaluating commonsense reasoning focuses on making inferences about common, everyday situations. To instead investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Wenting Zhao , Justin T Chiu , Jena D. Hwang , Faeze Brahman , Jack Hessel , Sanjiban Choudhury , Yejin Choi , Xiang Lorraine Li , Alane Suhr

Evaluating a neural network on an input that differs markedly from the training data might cause erratic and flawed predictions. We study a method that judges the unusualness of an input by evaluating its informative content compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Jörg Martin , Clemens Elster

Deep learning-based methods have achieved a breakthrough in image anomaly detection, but their complexity introduces a considerable challenge to understanding why an instance is predicted to be anomalous. We introduce a novel explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Philipp Liznerski , Saurabh Varshneya , Ece Calikus , Puyu Wang , Alexander Bartscher , Sebastian Josef Vollmer , Sophie Fellenz , Marius Kloft

Time series anomaly detection is an important task, with applications in a broad variety of domains. Many approaches have been proposed in recent years, but often they require that the length of the anomalies be known in advance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin , Constantin Brif

A controversial test for Large Language Models concerns the ability to discern possible from impossible language. While some evidence attests to the models' sensitivity to what crosses the limits of grammatically impossible language, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Evelina Leivada , Raquel Montero , Paolo Morosi , Natalia Moskvina , Tamara Serrano , Marcel Aguilar , Fritz Guenther

Modern machine learning tools offer exciting possibilities to qualitatively change the paradigm for new particle searches. In particular, new methods can broaden the search program by gaining sensitivity to unforeseen scenarios by learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Nachman
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