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Computer network anomaly detection and log analysis, as an important topic in the field of network security, has been a key task to ensure network security and system reliability. First, existing network anomaly detection and log analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shuzhan Wang , Ruxue Jiang , Zhaoqi Wang , Yan Zhou

The Isolation Forest (iForest), proposed by Liu, Ting, and Zhou at TKDE 2012, has become a prominent tool for unsupervised anomaly detection. However, recent research by Hariri, Kind, and Brunner, published in TKDE 2021, has revealed issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Vahideh Monemizadeh , Kourosh Kiani

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments across diverse sectors has significantly enhanced operational efficiency, yet concurrently elevated cybersecurity vulnerabilities due to increased exposure to cyber threats. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Md. Sad Abdullah Sami , Mushfiquzzaman Abid

Electric vehicles (EV) charging stations are one of the critical infrastructures needed to support the transition to renewable-energy-based mobility, but ensuring their reliability and efficiency requires effective anomaly detection to…

Unsupervised anomaly detection is widely used in transaction fraud detection where labels are scarce. Isolation Forest (IF) is among the most popular classical methods due to its scalability and ease of deployment. We propose SilIF, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Venkatakrishnan Gopalakrishnan

Anomaly detectors are often used to produce a ranked list of statistical anomalies, which are examined by human analysts in order to extract the actual anomalies of interest. Unfortunately, in realworld applications, this process can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Shubhomoy Das , Weng-Keen Wong , Alan Fern , Thomas G. Dietterich , Md Amran Siddiqui

Isolation forest or "iForest" is an intuitive and widely used algorithm for anomaly detection that follows a simple yet effective idea: in a given data distribution, if a threshold (split point) is selected uniformly at random within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 David Cortes

In this paper we describe an approach for anomaly detection and its explainability in multivariate functional data. The anomaly detection procedure consists of transforming the series into a vector of features and using an Isolation forest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-09 Mathieu Cura , Katarina Firdova , Céline Labart , Arthur Martel

Random cut forest (RCF) algorithms have been developed for anomaly detection, particularly in time series data. The RCF algorithm is an improved version of the isolation forest (IF) algorithm. Unlike the IF algorithm, the RCF algorithm can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Sijin Yeom , Jae-Hun Jung

Outlier detection in tabular data is crucial for safeguarding data integrity in high-stakes domains such as cybersecurity, financial fraud detection, and healthcare, where anomalies can cause serious operational and economic impacts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yihao Ang , Peicheng Yao , Yifan Bao , Yushuo Feng , Qiang Huang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Zhiyong Huang

Anomalous user behavior detection is the core component of many information security systems, such as intrusion detection, insider threat detection and authentication systems. Anomalous behavior will raise an alarm to the system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Li Sun , Steven Versteeg , Serdar Boztas , Asha Rao

Isolation Forest (iForest) stands out as a widely-used unsupervised anomaly detector, primarily owing to its remarkable runtime efficiency and superior performance in large-scale tasks. Despite its widespread adoption, a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Qin-Cheng Zheng , Shao-Qun Zhang , Shen-Huan Lyu , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Classification is essential to the applications in the field of data mining, artificial intelligence, and fault detection. There exists a strong need in developing accurate, suitable, and efficient classification methods and algorithms with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yingtao Ren , Xiaomin Zhu , Kaiyuan Bai , Runtong Zhang

Federated Leaning is an emerging approach to manage cooperation between a group of agents for the solution of Machine Learning tasks, with the goal of improving each agent's performance without disclosing any data. In this paper we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gabriele Santin , Inna Skarbovsky , Fabiana Fournier , Bruno Lepri

Unsupervised anomaly detection tackles the problem of finding anomalies inside datasets without the labels availability; since data tagging is typically hard or expensive to obtain, such approaches have seen huge applicability in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Tommaso Barbariol , Gian Antonio Susto

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, and cybersecurity. This thesis proposes new unsupervised methods for anomaly detection in both structured and streaming data settings. In the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Filippo Leveni

Isolation Forest (iForest) is an unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm designed to effectively detect anomalies under the assumption that anomalies are ``few and different." Various studies have aimed to enhance iForest, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hun Kang , Kyoungok Kim

Ensemble learning for anomaly detection of data structured into complex network has been barely studied due to the inconsistent performance of complex network characteristics and lack of inherent objective function. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jinfa Wang , Xiao Liu , Hai Zhao , Xingchi Chen

In this paper, the mathematical analysis of the Isolation Random Forest Method (IRF Method) for anomaly detection is presented. We show that the IRF space can be endowed with a probability induced by the Isolation Tree algorithm (iTree). In…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-05 Fernando A. Morales , Jorge M. Ramírez , Edgar A. Ramos

With predictive models becoming prevalent, companies are expanding the types of data they gather. As a result, the collected datasets consist not only of simple numerical features but also more complex objects such as time series, images,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Dariusz Brzezinski