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Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, and cybersecurity. This thesis proposes new unsupervised methods for anomaly detection in both structured and streaming data settings. In the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Filippo Leveni

Federated learning (FL), with the growing IoT and edge computing, is seen as a promising solution for applications that are latency- and privacy-aware. However, due to the widespread dispersion of data across many clients, it is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino

The ability to monitor ambient characteristics, interact with them, and derive information about the surroundings has been made possible by the rapid proliferation of edge sensing devices like IoT, mobile, and wearable devices and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Berrenur Saylam , Özlem Durmaz İncel

Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) networks enable intelligent services such as smart cities and autonomous driving, but often face resource constraints. Collecting heterogeneous sensory data, especially in small-scale datasets, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haihui Xie , Wenkun Wen , Shuwu Chen , Zhaogang Shu , Minghua Xia

We present an extension to the model-free anomaly detection algorithm, Isolation Forest. This extension, named Extended Isolation Forest (EIF), resolves issues with assignment of anomaly score to given data points. We motivate the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Sahand Hariri , Matias Carrasco Kind , Robert J. Brunner

Since edge device failures (i.e., anomalies) seriously affect the production of industrial products in Industrial IoT (IIoT), accurately and timely detecting anomalies is becoming increasingly important. Furthermore, data collected by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yi Liu , Sahil Garg , Jiangtian Nie , Yang Zhang , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , M. Shamim Hossain

Privacy and regulatory barriers often hinder centralized machine learning solutions, particularly in sectors like healthcare where data cannot be freely shared. Federated learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alexandre Cotorobai , Jorge Miguel Silva , Jose Luis Oliveira

Isolation Forest (iForest) stands out as a widely-used unsupervised anomaly detector, primarily owing to its remarkable runtime efficiency and superior performance in large-scale tasks. Despite its widespread adoption, a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Qin-Cheng Zheng , Shao-Qun Zhang , Shen-Huan Lyu , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Anomalous user behavior detection is the core component of many information security systems, such as intrusion detection, insider threat detection and authentication systems. Anomalous behavior will raise an alarm to the system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Li Sun , Steven Versteeg , Serdar Boztas , Asha Rao

Federated Leaning is an emerging approach to manage cooperation between a group of agents for the solution of Machine Learning tasks, with the goal of improving each agent's performance without disclosing any data. In this paper we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gabriele Santin , Inna Skarbovsky , Fabiana Fournier , Bruno Lepri

The integration of IoT devices in healthcare introduces significant security and reliability challenges, increasing susceptibility to cyber threats and operational anomalies. This study proposes a machine learning-driven framework for (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mahek Desai , Apoorva Rumale , Marjan Asadinia

Most real-world data are scattered across different companies or government organizations, and cannot be easily integrated under data privacy and related regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Yang Liu , Yingting Liu , Zhijie Liu , Junbo Zhang , Chuishi Meng , Yu Zheng

Anomaly Detection is an unsupervised learning task aimed at detecting anomalous behaviours with respect to historical data. In particular, multivariate Anomaly Detection has an important role in many applications thanks to the capability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mattia Carletti , Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto

This paper studies an edge intelligence-based IoT network in which a set of edge servers learn a shared model using federated learning (FL) based on the datasets uploaded from a multi-technology-supported IoT network. The data uploading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

Anomaly detection is critical in various fields, including intrusion detection, health monitoring, fault diagnosis, and sensor network event detection. The isolation forest (or iForest) approach is a well-known technique for detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Seemandhar Jain , Prarthi Jain , Abhishek Srivastava

The Isolation Forest (iForest), proposed by Liu, Ting, and Zhou at TKDE 2012, has become a prominent tool for unsupervised anomaly detection. However, recent research by Hariri, Kind, and Brunner, published in TKDE 2021, has revealed issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Vahideh Monemizadeh , Kourosh Kiani

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is highly sensitive to data privacy and cybersecurity threats. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a solution for preserving privacy, enabling private data to remain on local IIoT clients while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Samira Kamali Poorazad , Chafika Benzaid , Tarik Taleb

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem has transformed various sectors but has also introduced significant cybersecurity challenges. Traditional centralized security methods often struggle to balance privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Milad Rahmati

We address the problem of detecting anomalies with respect to structured patterns. To this end, we conceive a novel anomaly detection method called PIF, that combines the advantages of adaptive isolation methods with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi , Cesare Alippi

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Petar Labura , Tomislav Antic , Tomislav Capuder