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The classification of multivariate functional data is an important task in scientific research. Unlike point-wise data, functional data are usually classified by their shapes rather than by their scales. We define an outlyingness matrix by…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-24 Wenlin Dai , Marc G. Genton

An outlier is an event or observation that is defined as an unusual activity, intrusion, or a suspicious data point that lies at an irregular distance from a population. The definition of an outlier event, however, is subjective and depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder , Feras A. Batarseh

Most real-world IoT data analysis tasks, such as clustering and anomaly event detection, are unsupervised and highly susceptible to the presence of outliers. In addition to sporadic scattered outliers caused by factors such as faulty sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiqun Zhang , Zexi Tan , Xiaopeng Luo , Yunlin Liu

Anomaly detection is a dynamic field, in which the evaluation of models plays a critical role in understanding their effectiveness. The selection and interpretation of the evaluation metrics are pivotal, particularly in scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Minjae Ok , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Recently Autoencoder(AE) based models are widely used in the field of anomaly detection. A model trained with normal data generates a larger restoration error for abnormal data. Whether or not abnormal data is determined by observing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 JoonSung Lee , YeongHyeon Park

We present a novel mathematical optimization framework for outlier detection in multimodal datasets, extending Support Vector Data Description approaches. We provide a primal formulation, in the shape of a Mixed Integer Second Order Cone…

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We introduce an online outlier detection algorithm to detect outliers in a sequentially observed data stream. For this purpose, we use a two-stage filtering and hedging approach. In the first stage, we construct a multi-modal probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Mohammadreza Mohaghegh Neyshabouri , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

Functional MRI is a neuroimaging technique that analyzes the functional activity of the brain by measuring blood-oxygen-level-dependent signals throughout the brain. The derived functional features can be used for investigating brain…

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Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal graphs that exhibit deviant structures and node attributes compared to the majority in a graph set. One primary challenge is to learn normal patterns manifested in both fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

This paper considers the problem of outlier detection in functional data analysis focusing particularly on the more difficult case of shape outliers. We present an inductive conformal anomaly detection method based on elastic functional…

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This survey reviews hyperbolic graph embedding models, and evaluate them on anomaly detection, highlighting their advantages over Euclidean methods in capturing complex structures. Evaluating models like \textit{HGCAE},…

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This work addresses the challenges of robust covariance estimation and interpretable outlier detection for multivariate functional data with separable covariance structure. We develop a method that simultaneously improves robustness and…

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Outlier detection is an important topic in machine learning and has been used in a wide range of applications. Outliers are objects that are few in number and deviate from the majority of objects. As a result of these two properties, we…

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The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection graph (ABCD) is a random graph model with community structure and power-law distribution for both degrees and community sizes. The model generates graphs with similar properties as the…

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Outlier detection plays an essential role in many data-driven applications to identify isolated instances that are different from the majority. While many statistical learning and data mining techniques have been used for developing more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Ninghao Liu , Donghwa Shin , Xia Hu

Ensemble methods for classification and clustering have been effectively used for decades, while ensemble learning for outlier detection has only been studied recently. In this work, we design a new ensemble approach for outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Shebuti Rayana , Wen Zhong , Leman Akoglu

Real data often contain anomalous cases, also known as outliers. These may spoil the resulting analysis but they may also contain valuable information. In either case, the ability to detect such anomalies is essential. A useful tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Outlier detection is the identification of points in a dataset that do not conform to the norm. Outlier detection is highly sensitive to the choice of the detection algorithm and the feature subspace used by the algorithm. Extracting…

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