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Log anomaly detection is a critical component in modern software system security and maintenance, serving as a crucial support and basis for system monitoring, operation, and troubleshooting. It aids operations personnel in timely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yingying He , Xiaobing Pei

Effective anomaly detection in time series is pivotal for modern industrial applications and financial systems. Due to the scarcity of anomaly labels and the high cost of manual labeling, reconstruction-based unsupervised approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tiejun Wang , Rui Wang , Xudong Mou , Mengyuan Ma , Tianyu Wo , Renyu Yang , Xudong Liu

This study presents an adversarial method for anomaly detection in real-world applications, leveraging the power of generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) through cycle consistency in reconstruction error. Previous methods suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zahra Dehghanian , Saeed Saravani , Maryam Amirmazlaghani , Mohammad Rahmati

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in time series applications, primarily because time series data is employed across real-world scenarios. Detecting anomalies poses significant challenges since anomalies take diverse forms making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jihan Ghanim , Mariette Awad

Timely detection of abrupt anomalies is crucial for real-time monitoring and security of modern systems producing high-dimensional data. With this goal, we propose effective and scalable algorithms. Proposed algorithms are nonparametric as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mehmet Necip Kurt , Yasin Yilmaz , Xiaodong Wang

Growth in system complexity increases the need for automated log analysis techniques, such as Log-based Anomaly Detection (LAD). While deep learning (DL) methods have been widely used for LAD, traditional machine learning (ML) techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shan Ali , Chaima Boufaied , Domenico Bianculli , Paula Branco , Lionel Briand

In crowded scenes, detection and localization of abnormal behaviors is challenging in that high-density people make object segmentation and tracking extremely difficult. We associate the optical flows of multiple frames to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Xinfeng Zhang , Su Yang , Xinjian Zhang , Weishan Zhang , Jiulong Zhang

This paper presents a novel density estimation method for anomaly detection using density matrices (a powerful mathematical formalism from quantum mechanics) and Fourier features. The method can be seen as an efficient approximation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Oscar Bustos-Brinez , Joseph Gallego-Mejia , Fabio A. González

The core challenge in unsupervised anomaly detection is identifying abnormal patterns without prior knowledge of their characteristics. While existing methods have addressed aspects of this problem, they often struggle to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , Nicholas G. Murray , Alireza Tavakkoli

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

Log data anomaly detection is a core component in the area of artificial intelligence for IT operations. However, the large amount of existing methods makes it hard to choose the right approach for a specific system. A better understanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Odej Kao

Recent surface anomaly detection methods excel at identifying structural anomalies, such as dents and scratches, but struggle with logical anomalies, such as irregular or missing object components. The best-performing logical anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Matic Fučka , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Danijel Skočaj

Logs enable the monitoring of infrastructure status and the performance of associated applications. Logs are also invaluable for diagnosing the root causes of any problems that may arise. Log Anomaly Detection (LAD) pipelines automate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Dipak Wani , Samuel Ackerman , Eitan Farchi , Xiaotong Liu , Hau-wen Chang , Sarasi Lalithsena

Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization is crucial to the practical application when collecting and labeling sufficient anomaly data is infeasible. Most existing representation-based approaches extract normal image features with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jiawei Yu , Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Wei Li , Yushuang Wu , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

We present a highly compact run-time monitoring approach for deep computer vision networks that extracts selected knowledge from only a few (down to merely two) hidden layers, yet can efficiently detect silent data corruption originating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Florian Geissler , Syed Qutub , Michael Paulitsch , Karthik Pattabiraman

In the domain of anomaly detection, methods often excel in either high-level semantic or low-level industrial benchmarks, rarely achieving cross-domain proficiency. Semantic anomalies are novelties that differ in meaning from the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Luc P. J. Sträter , Mohammadreza Salehi , Efstratios Gavves , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

Unsupervised anomaly detection with localization has many practical applications when labeling is infeasible and, moreover, when anomaly examples are completely missing in the train data. While recently proposed models for such data setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Denis Gudovskiy , Shun Ishizaka , Kazuki Kozuka

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task of critical importance across numerous domains. Current systems increasingly operate in rapidly evolving environments that generate diverse yet interconnected data modalities -- such as time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhongyuan Wu , Jingyuan Wang , Zexuan Cheng , Yilong Zhou , Weizhi Wang , Juhua Pu , Chao Li , Changqing Ma

This paper proposes a low-power online anomaly detection framework based on neuromorphic wireless sensor networks, encompassing possible use cases such as brain-machine interfaces and remote environmental monitoring. In the considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Junya Shiraishi , Jiechen Chen , Osvaldo Simeone , Petar Popovski

So-called unsupervised anomaly detection is better described as semi-supervised, as it assumes all training data are nominal. This assumption simplifies training but requires manual data curation, introducing bias and limiting adaptability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Muhammad Aqeel , Shakiba Sharifi , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti