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Data mining offers a diverse toolbox for extracting meaningful structures from complex datasets, with anomaly detection emerging as a critical subfield particularly in the context of streaming or real-time data. Within anomaly detection,…

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We propose an anomaly detection technique for X.509 certificates utilizing Isolation Forest. This method can be beneficial when compliance testing with X.509 linters proves unsatisfactory, and we seek to identify anomalies beyond standards…

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Shared mobility systems, such as bike-sharing networks, play a crucial role in urban transportation. Identifying anomalies in these systems is essential for optimizing operations, improving service reliability, and enhancing user…

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Cybersecurity has recently gained considerable interest in today's security issues because of the popularity of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the considerable growth of mobile networks, and many related apps. Therefore, detecting numerous…

The widespread integration of new technologies in low-voltage distribution networks on the consumer side creates the need for distribution system operators to perform advanced real-time calculations to estimate network conditions. In recent…

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The development of the observing strategy for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) requires a broad optimization across science cases inside and outside of time-domain astronomy. We introduce a novel metric…

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We address the problem of detecting anomalies as samples that do not conform to structured patterns represented by low-dimensional manifolds. To this end, we conceive a general anomaly detection framework called Preference Isolation Forest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in various fields for critical tasks such as intrusion detection in cybersecurity, financial risk detection, and human health monitoring. A variety of anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Haolong Xiang , Xuyun Zhang , Hongsheng Hu , Lianyong Qi , Wanchun Dou , Mark Dras , Amin Beheshti , Xiaolong Xu

Automating anomaly detection is an open problem in many scientific fields, particularly in time-domain astronomy, where modern telescopes generate millions of alerts per night. Currently, most anomaly detection algorithms for astronomical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

Transient phenomena are interesting and potentially highly revealing of details about the processes under observation and study that could otherwise go unnoticed. It is therefore important to maximize the sensitivity of the method used to…

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We present a novel method for detecting outliers in astronomical time series based on the combination of a deep neural network and a k-nearest neighbor algorithm with the aim of identifying and removing problematic epochs in the light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Stefano Cavuoti , Demetra De Cicco , Lars Doorenbos , Massimo Brescia , Olena Torbaniuk , Giuseppe Longo , Maurizio Paolillo

Every field of Science is undergoing unprecedented changes in the discovery process, and Astronomy has been a main player in this transition since the beginning. The ongoing and future large and complex multi-messenger sky surveys impose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Maurizio D'Addona , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia

The detection of rare and hazardous driving scenarios is a critical challenge for ensuring the safety and reliability of autonomous systems. This research explores an unsupervised learning framework for detecting rare and extreme driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dat Le , Thomas Manhardt , Moritz Venator , Johannes Betz

The isolation forest algorithm for outlier detection exploits a simple yet effective observation: if taking some multivariate data and making uniformly random cuts across the feature space recursively, it will take fewer such random cuts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-24 David Cortes

Modern astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are capable of detecting thousands of transient events per year, necessitating the use of automated and scalable data analysis techniques. Recent advances in machine…

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Industrial time-series data from real production environments exhibits substantially higher complexity than commonly used benchmark datasets, primarily due to heterogeneous, multi-stage operational processes. As a result, anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sergej Krasnikov , Lukas Meitz , Samineh Bagheri , Michael Heider , Thorsten Schöler , Jörg Hähner

Modern time-domain surveys produce alert streams at a scale that makes exhaustive manual inspection infeasible, requiring automated methods to identify unusual transients for follow-up. In this work, we present an unsupervised anomaly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leyla Iskandarli , Chris J. Lintott , Steve Croft , Heloise Stevance , Joshua Weston

The phenomenon of microlensing has successfully been used to detect extrasolar planets. By observing characteristic, rare deviations in the gravitational microlensing light curve one can discover that a lens is a star--planet system. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Krzysztof Rybicki , Łukasz Wyrzykowski

In the era of large all-sky surveys, there will be a need for rapid, automatic classifications of newly discovered transient objects. Our focus here is the classification of supernovae (SNe). We consider random forest machine learning…

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