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Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

Unsupervised anomaly detection could be crucial in future analyses searching for rare phenomena in large datasets, as for example collected at the LHC. To this end, we introduce a physics inspired variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Blaž Bortolato , Barry M. Dillon , Jernej F. Kamenik , Aleks Smolkovič

Search for new physics events at the LHC mostly rely on the assumption that the events are characterized in terms of standard-reconstructed objects such as isolated photons, leptons, and jets initiated by QCD-partons. While such strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-12 Amit Chakraborty , Abhishek M. Iyer , Tuhin S. Roy

We present a new algorithm for anomaly detection called Anomaly Awareness. The algorithm learns about normal events while being made aware of the anomalies through a modification of the cost function. We show how this method works in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Charanjit K. Khosa , Veronica Sanz

The increasing automation in many areas of the Industry expressly demands to design efficient machine-learning solutions for the detection of abnormal events. With the ubiquitous deployment of sensors monitoring nearly continuously the…

This paper presents a novel method of searching for boosted hadronically decaying objects by treating them as anomalous elements of a contaminated dataset. A Variational Recurrent Neural Network (VRNN) is used to model jets as sequences of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Alan Kahn , Julia Gonski , Inês Ochoa , Daniel Williams , Gustaaf Brooijmans

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Resonant anomaly detection is a promising framework for model-independent searches for new particles. Weakly supervised resonant anomaly detection methods compare data with a potential signal against a template of the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Tobias Golling , Samuel Klein , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

Exploiting the rapid advances in probabilistic inference, in particular variational Bayes and variational autoencoders (VAEs), for anomaly detection (AD) tasks remains an open research question. Previous works argued that training VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adrian Alan Pol , Victor Berger , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini

Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have been proposed, adding sensitivity to unexpected signals.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Anders Andreassen , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

We propose a robust method to identify anomalous jets by vetoing QCD-jets. The robustness of this method ensures that the distribution of the proposed discriminating variable (which allows us to veto QCD-jets) remains unaffected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-11 Tuhin S. Roy , Aravind H. Vijay

This paper presents a model-agnostic search for narrow resonances in the dijet final state in the mass range 1.8-6 TeV. The signal is assumed to produce jets with substructure atypical of jets initiated by light quarks or gluons, with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-05 CMS Collaboration

Despite extensive theoretical motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics, searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found no significant evidence for BSM physics. Therefore, it is essential to broaden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Jack H. Collins , Kiel Howe , Benjamin Nachman

We present a refined version of the Anomaly Awareness framework for enhancing unsupervised anomaly detection. Our approach introduces minimal supervision into Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) through a two-stage training strategy: the model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Adam Banda , Charanjit K. Khosa , Veronica Sanz

With increased reliance on Internet based technologies, cyberattacks compromising users' sensitive data are becoming more prevalent. The scale and frequency of these attacks are escalating rapidly, affecting systems and devices connected to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rahul Kale , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

The main difficulty in high-dimensional anomaly detection tasks is the lack of anomalous data for training. And simply collecting anomalous data from the real world, common distributions, or the boundary of normal data manifold may face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Songmin Dai , Jide Li , Lu Wang , Congcong Zhu , Yifan Wu , Xiaoqiang Li

Video anomaly detection is to determine whether there are any abnormal events, behaviors or objects in a given video, which enables effective and intelligent public safety management. As video anomaly labeling is both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yang Wang , Jiaogen Zhou , Jihong Guan

Most recent studies on detecting and localizing temporal anomalies have mainly employed deep neural networks to learn the normal patterns of temporal data in an unsupervised manner. Unlike them, the goal of our work is to fully utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dongha Lee , Sehun Yu , Hyunjun Ju , Hwanjo Yu

Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Muhammad Rashid , Elvio Amparore , Enrico Ferrari , Damiano Verda

Visual anomaly detection in real-world industrial settings faces two major limitations. First, most existing methods are trained on purely normal data or on unlabeled datasets assumed to be predominantly normal, presuming the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Anindya Sundar Das , Monowar Bhuyan