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Recent advances in Explainable AI (XAI) increased the demand for deployment of safe and interpretable AI models in various industry sectors. Despite the latest success of deep neural networks in a variety of domains, understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Timur Sattarov , Dayananda Herurkar , Jörn Hees

In the research area of anomaly detection, novel and promising methods are frequently developed. However, most existing studies exclusively focus on the detection task only and ignore the interpretability of the underlying models as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Cheng Feng , Pingge Hu

Autoencoders are popular among neural-network-based matrix completion models due to their ability to retrieve potential latent factors from the partially observed matrices. Nevertheless, when training data is scarce their performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Duc Minh Nguyen , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Robert Calderbank , Nikos Deligiannis

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

Anomaly detection (AD) has been extensively studied and applied in a wide range of scenarios in the recent past. However, there are still gaps between achieved and desirable levels of recognition accuracy for making AD for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Peng Xing , Dong Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Zechao li

Data transformations (e.g. rotations, reflections, and cropping) play an important role in self-supervised learning. Typically, images are transformed into different views, and neural networks trained on tasks involving these views produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Chen Qiu , Timo Pfrommer , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

The joint optimization of the reconstruction and classification error is a hard non convex problem, especially when a non linear mapping is utilized. In order to overcome this obstacle, a novel optimization strategy is proposed, in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ioannis A. Nellas , Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Vassilis P. Plagianakos , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos

Autoencoding is a popular method in representation learning. Conventional autoencoders employ symmetric encoding-decoding procedures and a simple Euclidean latent space to detect hidden low-dimensional structures in an unsupervised way.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Stefan C. Schonsheck , Scott Mahan , Timo Klock , Alexander Cloninger , Rongjie Lai

Anomaly detection is a classical problem in computer vision, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when datasets are highly biased towards one class (normal) due to the insufficient sample size of the other class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

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

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

Unplanned engine failures in helicopters can lead to severe operational disruptions, safety hazards, and costly repairs. To mitigate these risks, this study compares two predictive maintenance strategies for helicopter engines: a supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 P. Sánchez , K. Reyes , B. Radu , E. Fernández

Detecting anomalies in high-dimensional, time-dependent simulation data is challenging due to complex spatial and temporal dynamics. We study reconstruction-based anomaly detection for ensemble data from parameterized K\'arm\'an vortex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hamid Gadirov , Martijn Westra , Steffen Frey

Using a convGRU-based autoencoder, this thesis proposes a framework to learn spatial-temporal aspects of raw network traffic in an unsupervised and protocol-agnostic manner. The learned representations are used to measure the effect on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Fabian Kopp

Inexpensive sensing and computation, as well as insurance innovations, have made smart dashboard cameras ubiquitous. Increasingly, simple model-driven computer vision algorithms focused on lane departures or safe following distances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Sanjay Haresh , Sateesh Kumar , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

While self-supervised learning has improved anomaly detection in computer vision and natural language processing, it is unclear whether tabular data can benefit from it. This paper explores the limitations of self-supervision for tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

Autoencoders are unsupervised machine learning circuits whose learning goal is to minimize a distortion measure between inputs and outputs. Linear autoencoders can be defined over any field and only real-valued linear autoencoder have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Pierre Baldi , Zhiqin Lu

This work proposes a real-time anomaly detection scheme that leverages the multi-step ahead prediction capabilities of encoder-decoder (ED) deep learning models with recurrent units. Specifically, an encoder-decoder is used to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sadananda Behera , Tania Panayiotou , Georgios Ellinas

Anomalies refer to data points or events that deviate from normal and homogeneous events, which can include fraudulent activities, network infiltrations, equipment malfunctions, process changes, or other significant but infrequent events.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed

The complexity of modern electro-mechanical systems require the development of sophisticated diagnostic methods like anomaly detection capable of detecting deviations. Conventional anomaly detection approaches like signal processing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Abhishek Srinivasan , Varun Singapuri Ravi , Juan Carlos Andresen , Anders Holst