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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

Anomaly detection is a longstanding and active research area that has many applications in domains such as finance, security, and manufacturing. However, the efficiency and performance of anomaly detection algorithms are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yang Cao , Haolong Xiang , Hang Zhang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

Internet traffic in the real world is susceptible to various external and internal factors which may abruptly change the normal traffic flow. Those unexpected changes are considered outliers in traffic. However, deep sequence models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sajal Saha , Anwar Haque , Greg Sidebottom

Human operators often diagnose industrial machinery via anomalous sounds. Automated acoustic anomaly detection can lead to reliable maintenance of machinery. However, deep learning-driven anomaly detection methods often require an extensive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Saad Abbasi , Mahmoud Famouri , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

The problem of detecting a small number of outliers in a large dataset is an important task in many fields from fraud detection to high-energy physics. Two approaches have emerged to tackle this problem: unsupervised and supervised.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Barbora Micenková , Brian McWilliams , Ira Assent

The HDoutliers algorithm is a powerful unsupervised algorithm for detecting anomalies in high-dimensional data, with a strong theoretical foundation. However, it suffers from some limitations that significantly hinder its performance level,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Priyanga Dilini Talagala , Rob J. Hyndman , Kate Smith-Miles

In a corpus of data, outliers are either errors: mistakes in the data that are counterproductive, or are unique: informative samples that improve model robustness. Identifying outliers can lead to better datasets by (1) removing noise in…

Changepoints are abrupt variations in the underlying distribution of data. Detecting changes in a data stream is an important problem with many applications. In this paper, we are interested in changepoint detection algorithms which operate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Zhaohui Wang , Xiao Lin , Abhinav Mishra , Ram Sriharsha

Detecting which nodes in graphs are outliers is a relatively new machine learning task with numerous applications. Despite the proliferation of algorithms developed in recent years for this task, there has been no standard comprehensive…

Given a stream of heterogeneous graphs containing different types of nodes and edges, how can we spot anomalous ones in real-time while consuming bounded memory? This problem is motivated by and generalizes from its application in security…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Emaad A. Manzoor , Sadegh Momeni , Venkat N. Venkatakrishnan , Leman Akoglu

The detection of outliers is of critical importance in the assurance of data quality. Outliers may exist in observed data or in data derived from these observed data, such as estimates and forecasts. An outlier may indicate a problem with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Charles D. Coleman , Thomas Bryan

Anomaly detection is critical for finding suspicious behavior in innumerable systems. We need to detect anomalies in real-time, i.e. determine if an incoming entity is anomalous or not, as soon as we receive it, to minimize the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Siddharth Bhatia

As software systems grow increasingly intricate, the precise detection of anomalies have become both essential and challenging. Current log-based anomaly detection methods depend heavily on vast amounts of log data leading to inefficient…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Kangjin Wang , Mengxi Jia , Yang Yong , Ying Li

Unsupervised learning methods are well established in the area of anomaly detection and achieve state of the art performances on outlier datasets. Outliers play a significant role, since they bear the potential to distort the predictions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Andreas Lohrer , Daniyal Kazempour , Maximilian Hünemörder , Peer Kröger

As more data are produced each day, and faster, data stream mining is growing in importance, making clear the need for algorithms able to fast process these data. Data stream mining algorithms are meant to be solutions to extract knowledge…

The increasing penetration rate of new energy in the power system has put forward higher requirements for the operation and maintenance of substations and transmission lines. Using the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to identify foreign…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 He Zhichao , Shen Xiangyu , Zhang Yong , Xie Nan

Outlier detection and concept drift detection represent two challenges in data analysis. Most studies address these issues separately. However, joint detection mechanisms in regression remain underexplored, where the continuous nature of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Bingbing Wang , Shengyan Sun , Jiaqi Wang , Yu Tang

Nowadays, the volume of network traffic continues to grow, along with the frequency and sophistication of attacks. This scenario highlights the need for solutions capable of continuously adapting, since network behavior is dynamic and…

The neighbor-based method has become a powerful tool to handle the outlier detection problem, which aims to infer the abnormal degree of the sample based on the compactness of the sample and its neighbors. However, the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhuang Qi , Junlin Zhang , Xiaming Chen , Xin Qi

Outlier detection, crucial for identifying unusual patterns with significant implications across numerous applications, has drawn considerable research interest. Existing semi-supervised methods typically treat data as purely numerical and}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Baiyang Chen , Zhong Yuan , Dezhong Peng , Hongmei Chen , Xiaomin Song , Huiming Zheng