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Anomaly detection in time series has been widely researched and has important practical applications. In recent years, anomaly detection algorithms are mostly based on deep-learning generative models and use the reconstruction error to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Chunkai Zhang , Wei Zuo , Xuan Wang

The robustness and anomaly detection capability of neural networks are crucial topics for their safe adoption in the real-world. Moreover, the over-parameterization of recent networks comes with high computational costs and raises questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Morgane Ayle , Bertrand Charpentier , John Rachwan , Daniel Zügner , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

In the recent times, autoencoders, besides being used for compression, have been proven quite useful even for regenerating similar images or help in image denoising. They have also been explored for anomaly detection in a few cases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Shruti Mittal , Dattaraj Rao

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has garnered increasing attention in recent years, yet remains challenging due to two key factors: (1) label scarcity stemming from the high cost of annotations and (2) homophily disparity at node and class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yunhui Liu , Jiashun Cheng , Yiqing Lin , Qizhuo Xie , Jia Li , Fugee Tsung , Hongzhi Yin , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao , Tieke He

Unsupervised anomaly detection with localization has many practical applications when labeling is infeasible and, moreover, when anomaly examples are completely missing in the train data. While recently proposed models for such data setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Denis Gudovskiy , Shun Ishizaka , Kazuki Kozuka

Most of the existing methods for anomaly detection use only positive data to learn the data distribution, thus they usually need a pre-defined threshold at the detection stage to determine whether a test instance is an outlier.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kai Tian , Shuigeng Zhou , Jianping Fan , Jihong Guan

The random cluster model is used to define an upper bound on a distance measure as a function of the number of data points to be classified and the expected value of the number of classes to form in a hybrid K-means and regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Robert A. Murphy

Anomaly detection aims to identify observations that deviate from the typical pattern of data. Anomalous observations may correspond to financial fraud, health risks, or incorrectly measured data in practice. We show detecting anomalies in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Matthew Davidow , David S. Matteson

Outlier detection in tabular data is crucial for safeguarding data integrity in high-stakes domains such as cybersecurity, financial fraud detection, and healthcare, where anomalies can cause serious operational and economic impacts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yihao Ang , Peicheng Yao , Yifan Bao , Yushuo Feng , Qiang Huang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Zhiyong Huang

We present a novel notion of outlier, called the Concentration Free Outlier Factor, or CFOF. As a main contribution, we formalize the notion of concentration of outlier scores and theoretically prove that CFOF does not concentrate in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Fabrizio Angiulli

The area under receiver operating characteristics (AUC) is the standard measure for comparison of anomaly detectors. Its advantage is in providing a scalar number that allows a natural ordering and is independent on a threshold, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Vít Škvára , Tomáš Pevný , Václav Šmídl

Detecting anomalies in radio astronomy is challenging due to the vast amounts of data and the rarity of labeled anomalous examples. Addressing this challenge requires efficient methods capable of identifying unusual radio galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Steven Ndung'u , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , George Azzopardi

Anomaly detection is a dynamic field, in which the evaluation of models plays a critical role in understanding their effectiveness. The selection and interpretation of the evaluation metrics are pivotal, particularly in scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Minjae Ok , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal events by a model of normality. It plays an important role in many domains such as network intrusion detection, criminal activity identity and so on. With the rapidly growing size of accessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Chu Wang , Yan-Ming Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Anomalies represent deviations from the intended system operation and can lead to decreased efficiency as well as partial or complete system failure. As the causes of anomalies are often unknown due to complex system dynamics, efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Lindemann , Benjamin Maschler , Nada Sahlab , Michael Weyrich

A new Lossy Causal Temporal Convolutional Neural Network Autoencoder for anomaly detection is proposed in this work. Our framework uses a rate-distortion loss and an entropy bottleneck to learn a compressed latent representation for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Christopher P. Ley , Jorge F. Silva

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority of the nodes in a graph, which has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Existing generalist graph models have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hezhe Qiao , Chaoxi Niu , Ling Chen , Guansong Pang

Identifying anomalies in multi-dimensional datasets is an important task in many real-world applications. A special case arises when anomalies are occluded in a small set of attributes, typically referred to as a subspace, and not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Marcelo Bacher , Irad Ben-Gal , Erez Shmueli

Anomaly detection and localization are widely used in industrial manufacturing for its efficiency and effectiveness. Anomalies are rare and hard to collect and supervised models easily over-fit to these seen anomalies with a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zheng Wang , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Discrete return (DR) Laser Detection and Ranging (Ladar) systems provide a series of echoes that reflect from objects in a scene. These can be first, last or multi-echo returns. In contrast, Full-Waveform (FW)-Ladar systems measure the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-18 Puneet S Chhabra , Andrew M Wallace , James R Hopgood