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Unsupervised anomaly detection is widely used in transaction fraud detection where labels are scarce. Isolation Forest (IF) is among the most popular classical methods due to its scalability and ease of deployment. We propose SilIF, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Venkatakrishnan Gopalakrishnan

Power grids serve as a vital component in numerous industries, seamlessly delivering electrical energy to industrial processes and technologies, making their safe and reliable operation indispensable. However, powerlines can be hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maximilian Andreas Hoefler , Karsten Mueller , Wojciech Samek

Anomaly detection underpins critical applications from network security and intrusion detection to fraud prevention, where recognizing aberrant patterns rapidly is indispensable. Progress in this area is routinely impeded by two obstacles:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiaju Miao , Wei Zhu

This paper considers an anomaly detection problem in which a detection algorithm assigns anomaly scores to multi-dimensional data points, such as cellular networks' Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). We propose an optimization framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ali Maatouk , Fadhel Ayed , Wenjie Li , Yu Wang , Hong Zhu , Jiantao Ye

Real-world graphs are complex to process for performing effective analysis, such as anomaly detection. However, recently, there have been several research efforts addressing the issues surrounding graph-based anomaly detection. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Prabin B Lamichhane , William Eberle

Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims at finding nodes whose patterns deviate significantly from the majority of reference nodes, which is pervasive in many applications such as network intrusion detection and social spammer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Zuoyong Li

Cybersecurity remains a critical challenge in the digital age, with network traffic flow anomaly detection being a key pivotal instrument in the fight against cyber threats. In this study, we address the prevalent issue of data integrity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Adrian Pekar , Richard Jozsa

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), network-wide anomaly detection is a crucial part of monitoring IoT networks due to the inherent security vulnerabilities of most IoT devices. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) has been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Tung-Anh Nguyen , Jiayu He , Long Tan Le , Wei Bao , Nguyen H. Tran

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a major cybersecurity challenge due to their stealth and ability to mimic normal system behavior, making detection particularly difficult in highly imbalanced datasets. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

Online unsupervised detection of anomalies is crucial to guarantee the correct operation of cyber-physical systems and the safety of humans interacting with them. State-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning via neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Daniele Meli

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) plays a crucial role in identifying abnormal patterns within data without labeled examples, holding significant practical implications across various domains. Although the individual contributions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zeyu Fang , Ming Gu , Sheng Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Qiaoyu Tan , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu

Anomaly detection is a complex problem due to the ambiguity in defining anomalies, the diversity of anomaly types (e.g., local and global defect), and the scarcity of training data. As such, it necessitates a comprehensive model capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Byeongchan Lee , John Won , Seunghyun Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Network anomaly detection aims to find network elements (e.g., nodes, edges, subgraphs) with significantly different behaviors from the vast majority. It has a profound impact in a variety of applications ranging from finance, healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kaize Ding , Qinghai Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

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

Anomaly and missing data constitute a thorny problem in industrial applications. In recent years, deep learning enabled anomaly detection has emerged as a critical direction, however the improved detection accuracy is achieved with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Alexandros Gkillas , Aris Lalos

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for distributed environments such as the Internet of Things (IoT), where data from diverse devices with varying functionalities remains localized while contributing to a shared global model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohsen Tajgardan , Atena Shiranzaei , Mahdi Rabbani , Reza Khoshkangini , Mahtab Jamali

Log anomaly detection is essential for system reliability, but it is extremely challenging to do considering it involves class imbalance. Additionally, the models trained in one domain are not applicable to other domains, necessitating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Krishna Sharma , Vivek Yelleti

As modern software systems continue to grow in terms of complexity and volume, anomaly detection on multivariate monitoring metrics, which profile systems' health status, becomes more and more critical and challenging. In particular, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jinyang Liu , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Cong Feng , Zengyin Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) attracts a lot of research interest and drives widespread applications, where only anomaly-free samples are available for training. Some UAD applications intend to further locate the anomalous regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yixuan Zhou , Xing Xu , Jingkuan Song , Fumin Shen , Heng Tao Shen

Anomaly detection based on 3D point cloud data is an important research problem and receives more and more attention recently. Untrained anomaly detection based on only one sample is an emerging research problem motivated by real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Juan Du , Dongheng Chen