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Anomaly detection is critical in domains such as cybersecurity and finance, especially when working with large-scale tabular data. Yet, unsupervised anomaly detection-where no labeled anomalies are available-remains challenging because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Spencer King , Zhilu Zhang , Ruofan Yu , Baris Coskun , Wei Ding , Qian Cui

Anomaly detection usually assumes that abnormality is an intrinsic property of an observation. A defect is a defect, and a rare object is rare, regardless of where it appears. Many real-world anomalies do not work this way. A runner on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shashank Mishra , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

Change point detection (CPD) and anomaly detection (AD) are essential techniques in various fields to identify abrupt changes or abnormal data instances. However, existing methods are often constrained to univariate data, face scalability…

From a safety perspective, a machine learning method embedded in real-world applications is required to distinguish irregular situations. For this reason, there has been a growing interest in the anomaly detection (AD) task. Since we cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 JuneKyu Park , Jeong-Hyeon Moon , Namhyuk Ahn , Kyung-Ah Sohn

We propose a new method to define anomaly scores and apply this to particle physics collider events. Anomalies can be either rare, meaning that these events are a minority in the normal dataset, or different, meaning they have values that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Rob Verheyen

Anomaly detection plays a crucial role in various real-world applications, including healthcare and finance systems. Owing to the limited number of anomaly labels in these complex systems, unsupervised anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zongyuan Huang , Baohua Zhang , Guoqiang Hu , Longyuan Li , Yanyan Xu , Yaohui Jin

Timely detection of concerning events is an important problem in clinical practice. In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response, such as the omission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Michal Valko , Hamed Valizadegan , Branislav Kveton , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) remains a fundamental yet formidable task in the video understanding community, with promising applications in areas such as information forensics and public safety protection. Due to the rarity and diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yang Liu , Hongjin Wang , Zepu Wang , Xiaoguang Zhu , Jing Liu , Peng Sun , Rui Tang , Jianwei Du , Victor C. M. Leung , Liang Song

Increasing the semantic understanding and contextual awareness of machine learning models is important for improving robustness and reducing susceptibility to data shifts. In this work, we leverage contextual awareness for the anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nathan Vaska , Kevin Leahy , Victoria Helus

Time Series Anomaly Detection metrics serve as crucial tools for model evaluation. However, existing metrics suffer from several limitations: insufficient discriminative power, strong hyperparameter dependency, sensitivity to perturbations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhijie Zhong , Zhiwen Yu , Yiu-ming Cheung , Kaixiang Yang

Video anomaly detection aims to discover abnormal events in videos, and the principal objects are target objects such as people and vehicles. Each target in the video data has rich spatio-temporal context information. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chao Hu , Weibin Qiu , Weijie Wu , Liqiang Zhu

Anomaly detection aims at detecting unexpected behaviours in the data. Because anomaly detection is usually an unsupervised task, traditional anomaly detectors learn a decision boundary by employing heuristics based on intuitions, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lorenzo Perini , Jesse Davis

In contextual anomaly detection, an object is only considered anomalous within a specific context. Most existing methods for CAD use a single context based on a set of user-specified contextual features. However, identifying the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Ece Calikus , Slawomir Nowaczyk , Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia , Onur Dikmen

The progress in modelling time series and, more generally, sequences of structured data has recently revamped research in anomaly detection. The task stands for identifying abnormal behaviors in financial series, IT systems, aerospace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alessandro Flaborea , Bardh Prenkaj , Bharti Munjal , Marco Aurelio Sterpa , Dario Aragona , Luca Podo , Fabio Galasso

Contextual bandit algorithms are increasingly replacing non-adaptive A/B tests in e-commerce, healthcare, and policymaking because they can both improve outcomes for study participants and increase the chance of identifying good or even…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-02 Aurélien Bibaut , Antoine Chambaz , Maria Dimakopoulou , Nathan Kallus , Mark van der Laan

Reliable confidence estimates are important for safely deploying vision-based controllers in autonomous racing, where safety predictions must be derived from camera images, yet modern predictors become dangerously overconfident under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhenjiang Mao , Jiawen Wu , Gabriel Wagner , Zhongzheng Zhang , Ivan Ruchkin

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is critical in security-sensitive domains, yet faces reliability challenges: miscalibrated confidence estimation (underconfidence in normal nodes, overconfidence in anomalies), adversarial vulnerability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Songran Bai , Xiaolong Zheng , Daniel Dajun Zeng

Anomaly detection is a critical requirement for ensuring safety in autonomous driving. In this work, we leverage Cooperative Perception to share information across nearby vehicles, enabling more accurate identification and consensus of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ashish Bastola , Hao Wang , Abolfazl Razi

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) aims to identify anomalous sounds by learning the features of normal operational sounds and sensing their deviations. Recent approaches have focused on the self-supervised task utilizing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Soonhyeon Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

Anomaly detection is essential for identifying rare and significant events across diverse domains such as finance, cybersecurity, and network monitoring. This paper presents Synthetic Anomaly Monitoring (SAM), an innovative approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Emanuele Luzio , Moacir Antonelli Ponti