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Unsupervised outlier detection, which predicts if a test sample is an outlier or not using only the information from unlabelled inlier data, is an important but challenging task. Recently, methods based on the two-stage framework achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

Outlier detection methods have become increasingly relevant in recent years due to increased security concerns and because of its vast application to different fields. Recently, Pauwels and Lasserre (2016) noticed that the sublevel sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-19 Armin Askari , Forest Yang , Laurent El Ghaoui

The neighbor-based method has become a powerful tool to handle the outlier detection problem, which aims to infer the abnormal degree of the sample based on the compactness of the sample and its neighbors. However, the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhuang Qi , Junlin Zhang , Xiaming Chen , Xin Qi

Plateaus, where an agent's performance stagnates at a suboptimal level, are a common problem in deep on-policy RL. Focusing on PPO due to its widespread adoption, we show that plateaus in certain regimes arise not because of known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Michael Beukman , Khimya Khetarpal , Zeyu Zheng , Will Dabney , Jakob Foerster , Michael Dennis , Clare Lyle

Real-time multi-person pose estimation presents significant challenges in balancing speed and precision. While two-stage top-down methods slow down as the number of people in the image increases, existing one-stage methods often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Peng Lu , Tao Jiang , Yining Li , Xiangtai Li , Kai Chen , Wenming Yang

Boundary point detection aims to outline the external contour structure of clusters and enhance the inter-cluster discrimination, thus bolstering the performance of the downstream classification and clustering tasks. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Huayi Wu

Multiple kernel learning (MKL) algorithms combine different base kernels to obtain a more efficient representation in the feature space. Focusing on discriminative tasks, MKL has been used successfully for feature selection and finding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

The following detection problem is studied, in which there are $M$ sequences of samples out of which one outlier sequence needs to be detected. Each typical sequence contains $n$ independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Yuheng Bu , Shaofeng Zou , Yingbin Liang , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

With the rapid growth of the PCB manufacturing industry, there is an increasing demand for computer vision inspection to detect defects during production. Improving the accuracy and generalization of PCB defect detection models remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Liu , Dongjie Chen , Xiao Qi

Can we see it all? Do we know it All? These are questions thrown to human beings in our contemporary society to evaluate our tendency to solve problems. Recent studies have explored several models in object detection; however, most have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kanyifeechukwu Jane Oguine , Ozioma Collins Oguine , Hashim Ibrahim Bisallah

Clustering techniques are very attractive for extracting and identifying patterns in datasets. However, their application to very large spatial datasets presents numerous challenges such as high-dimensionality data, heterogeneity, and high…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Finding a set of nested partitions of a dataset is useful to uncover relevant structure at different scales, and is often dealt with a data-dependent methodology. In this paper, we introduce a general two-step methodology for model-based…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-22 Etienne Côme , Nicolas Jouvin , Pierre Latouche , Charles Bouveyron

Output thresholding is the technique to search for the best threshold to be used during inference for any classifiers that can produce probability estimates on train and testing datasets. It is particularly useful in high imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Baran Koseoglu , Luca Traverso , Mohammed Topiwalla , Egor Kraev , Zoltan Szopory

We formulate the abnormal event detection problem as an outlier detection task and we propose a two-stage algorithm based on k-means clustering and one-class Support Vector Machines (SVM) to eliminate outliers. In the feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Sorina Smeureanu , Marius Popescu , Bogdan Alexe

Modeling cellular responses to genetic and chemical perturbations remains a central challenge in single-cell biology. Existing data-driven frameworks have advanced perturbation prediction through variational autoencoders, chemically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Francis Boabang , Samuel Asante Gyamerah

Robust optimization is an established framework for modeling optimization problems with uncertain parameters. While static robust optimization is often criticized for being too conservative, two-stage (or adjustable) robust optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Justin Dumouchelle , Esther Julien , Jannis Kurtz , Elias B. Khalil

The integration of large-scale circuits and systems emphasizes the importance of automated defect detection of electronic components. The YOLO image detection model has been used to detect PCB defects and it has become a typical AI-assisted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hengyi Zhu , Linye Wei , He Li

This paper introduces two novel, outlyingness scores (OSs) based on Cluster Catch Digraphs (CCDs): Outbound Outlyingness Score (OOS) and Inbound Outlyingness Score (IOS). These scores enhance the interpretability of outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-12 Rui Shi , Elvan Ceyhan , Nedret Billor

Surface defects on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) directly compromise product reliability and safety. However, achieving high-precision detection is challenging because PCB defects are typically characterized by tiny sizes, high texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Meng Han

In SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) problems, Pose Graph Optimization (PGO) is a technique to refine an initial estimate of a set of poses (positions and orientations) from a set of pairwise relative measurements. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Emilio Olivastri , Alberto Pretto