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Outlier detection (OD) has a vast literature as it finds numerous real-world applications. Being an unsupervised task, model selection is a key bottleneck for OD without label supervision. Despite a long list of available OD algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuchen Shen , Haomin Wen , Leman Akoglu

Unsupervised tabular anomaly detection methods typically learn feature patterns from normal samples during training and subsequently identify samples that deviate from these patterns as anomalies during testing. However, in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Huang , Hezhe Qiao , Kailai Zhang , Zaisheng Ye , Yu-Ming Shang , Xiangling Fu

Anomaly detection for tabular data has been a long-standing unsupervised learning problem that remains a major challenge for current deep learning models. Recently, in-context learning has emerged as a new paradigm that has shifted efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Patryk Marszałek , Tomasz Kuśmierczyk , Marek Śmieja

Deploying machine learning in open environments presents the challenge of encountering diverse test inputs that differ significantly from the training data. These out-of-distribution samples may exhibit shifts in local or global features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawei Li , Sitong Li , Shanshan Wang , Yicheng Zeng , Falong Tan , Chuanlong Xie

It is common practice of the outlier mining community to repurpose classification datasets toward evaluating various detection models. To that end, often a binary classification dataset is used, where samples from one of the classes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

Graph-level representation learning is important in a wide range of applications. Existing graph-level models are generally built on i.i.d. assumption for both training and testing graphs. However, in an open world, models can encounter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhihao Ding , Jieming Shi , Shiqi Shen , Xuequn Shang , Jiannong Cao , Zhipeng Wang , Zhi Gong

We consider functional outlier detection from a geometric perspective, specifically: for functional data sets drawn from a functional manifold which is defined by the data's modes of variation in amplitude and phase. Based on this manifold,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-15 Moritz Herrmann , Fabian Scheipl

Machine learning models trained on tabular data are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even in realistic scenarios where attackers only have access to the model's outputs. Since tabular data contains complex interdependencies among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yael Itzhakev , Amit Giloni , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Predictive machine learning models generally excel on in-distribution data, but their performance degrades on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. Reliable deployment therefore requires robust OOD detection, yet this is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 David Graber , Victor Armegioiu , Rebecca Buller , Siddhartha Mishra

Recent advances in Explainable AI (XAI) increased the demand for deployment of safe and interpretable AI models in various industry sectors. Despite the latest success of deep neural networks in a variety of domains, understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Timur Sattarov , Dayananda Herurkar , Jörn Hees

The problem of outlier detection is extremely challenging in many domains such as text, in which the attribute values are typically non-negative, and most values are zero. In such cases, it often becomes difficult to separate the outliers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Hyenkyun Woo , Charu C. Aggarwal , Haesun Park

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization, a cornerstone for building robust machine learning models capable of handling data diverging from the training set's distribution, is an ongoing challenge in deep learning. While significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sergey Kolesnikov

An important class of techniques for resonant anomaly detection in high energy physics builds models that can distinguish between reference and target datasets, where only the latter has appreciable signal. Such techniques, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Mayee F. Chen , Benjamin Nachman , Frederic Sala

Classification tasks present challenges due to class imbalances and evolving data distributions. Addressing these issues requires a robust method to handle imbalances while effectively detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Priyanka Chudasama , Anil Surisetty , Aakarsh Malhotra , Alok Singh

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection discerns OOD data where the predictor cannot make valid predictions as in-distribution (ID) data, thereby increasing the reliability of open-world classification. However, it is typically hard to collect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Haotian Zheng , Qizhou Wang , Zhen Fang , Xiaobo Xia , Feng Liu , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Outlier detection, crucial for identifying unusual patterns with significant implications across numerous applications, has drawn considerable research interest. Existing semi-supervised methods typically treat data as purely numerical and}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Baiyang Chen , Zhong Yuan , Dezhong Peng , Hongmei Chen , Xiaomin Song , Huiming Zheng

Fully Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (FUAD) is a practical extension of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD), aiming to detect anomalies without any labels even when the training set may contain anomalous samples. To achieve FUAD, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinyue Liu , Jianyuan Wang , Biao Leng , Shuo Zhang

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Anomaly detection aims to identify samples that deviate from the nominal data distribution and is central to many safety-critical applications. However, developing effective anomaly detection methods for categorical, mixed-type, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lixing Zhang , Yuchen Liang , Liyan Xie

In Federated Learning (FL), anomaly detection (AD) is a challenging task due to the decentralized nature of data and the presence of non-IID data distributions. This study introduces a novel federated threshold calculation method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sofiane Laridi , Gregory Palmer , Kam-Ming Mark Tam