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As cyber threats continue to evolve in sophistication and scale, the ability to detect anomalous network behavior has become critical for maintaining robust cybersecurity defenses. Modern cybersecurity systems face the overwhelming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Christie Djidjev

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

Outlier detection is an important problem occurring in a wide range of areas. Outliers are the outcome of fraudulent behaviour, mechanical faults, human error, or simply natural deviations. Many data mining applications perform outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juan A. Lara , David Lizcano , Víctor Rampérez , Javier Soriano

Recommender systems are designed to suggest items based on user preferences, helping users navigate the vast amount of information available on the internet. Given the overwhelming content, outlier detection has emerged as a key research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mahamudul Hasan

Computer network anomaly detection and log analysis, as an important topic in the field of network security, has been a key task to ensure network security and system reliability. First, existing network anomaly detection and log analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shuzhan Wang , Ruxue Jiang , Zhaoqi Wang , Yan Zhou

Outlier detection can serve as an extremely important tool for researchers from a wide range of fields. From the sectors of banking and marketing to the social sciences and healthcare sectors, outlier detection techniques are very useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-12 Efthymios Costa , Ioanna Papatsouma

Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving manner to collaboratively train models on data distributed over multiple local clients via the coordination of a global server. In this paper, we focus on label distribution skew in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jianghu Lu , Shikun Li , Kexin Bao , Pengju Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

This study addresses an important gap in time series outlier detection by proposing a novel problem setting: long-term outlier prediction. Conventional methods primarily focus on immediate detection by identifying deviations from normal…

Detection models trained by one party (including server) may face severe performance degradation when distributed to other users (clients). Federated learning can enable multi-party collaborative learning without leaking client data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shangchao Su , Bin Li , Chengzhi Zhang , Mingzhao Yang , Xiangyang Xue

Due to the veracity and heterogeneity in network traffic, detecting anomalous events is challenging. The computational load on global servers is a significant challenge in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Our primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

We propose a new assumption in outlier detection: Normal data instances are commonly located in the area that there is hardly any fluctuation on data density, while outliers are often appeared in the area that there is violent fluctuation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ding Liu , Hui Li

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

Federated learning (FL) is proving to be one of the most promising paradigms for leveraging distributed resources, enabling a set of clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the data decentralized. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Mirko Nardi , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella

Accurate identification of deforestation from satellite images is essential in order to understand the geographical situation of an area. This paper introduces a new distributed approach to identify as well as locate deforestation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuvraj Dutta , Aaditya Sikder , Basabdatta Palit

Federated learning (FL), with the growing IoT and edge computing, is seen as a promising solution for applications that are latency- and privacy-aware. However, due to the widespread dispersion of data across many clients, it is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino

In this paper, the mathematical analysis of the Isolation Random Forest Method (IRF Method) for anomaly detection is presented. We show that the IRF space can be endowed with a probability induced by the Isolation Tree algorithm (iTree). In…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-05 Fernando A. Morales , Jorge M. Ramírez , Edgar A. Ramos

Federated Learning often relies on sharing full or partial model weights, which can burden network bandwidth and raise privacy risks. We present a loss-based alternative using distributed mutual learning. Instead of transmitting weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yash Gupta

The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng