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Log messages are now widely used in software systems. They are important for classification as millions of logs are generated each day. Most logs are unstructured which makes classification a challenge. In this paper, Deep Learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Amir Farzad , T. Aaron Gulliver

Log anomaly detection plays a critical role in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. However, existing approaches rely on large amounts of labeled log data, which poses significant challenges in real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Yihan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation identification, spam detection and content moderation, etc. Despite significant advances in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Feng Xiao , Jicong Fan

Distributed databases are fundamental infrastructures of today's large-scale software systems such as cloud systems. Detecting anomalies in distributed databases is essential for maintaining software availability. Existing approaches,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Mengxi Jia , Ying Li , Yong Yang , Zhonghai Wu

Log-based anomaly detection is fundamentally constrained by training data sparsity. Our empirical study reveals that public benchmark datasets cover less than 10% of source code log templates. Consequently, models frequently misclassify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinyu Li , Yintong Huo , Chenxi Mao , Shiwen Shan , Yuxin Su , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

NetFlow data is a popular network log format used by many network analysts and researchers. The advantages of using NetFlow over deep packet inspection are that it is easier to collect and process, and it is less privacy intrusive. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Clinton Cao , Annibale Panichella , Sicco Verwer , Agathe Blaise , Filippo Rebecchi

Event logs are widely used for anomaly detection and prediction in complex systems. Existing log-based anomaly detection methods usually consist of four main steps: log collection, log parsing, feature extraction, and anomaly detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Logs provide first-hand information for engineers to diagnose failures in large-scale online service systems. Log parsing, which transforms semi-structured raw log messages into structured data, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yudong Liu , Xu Zhang , Shilin He , Hongyu Zhang , Liqun Li , Yu Kang , Yong Xu , Minghua Ma , Qingwei Lin , Yingnong Dang , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Detecting anomalies in general ledger data is of utmost importance to ensure trustworthiness of financial records. Financial audits increasingly rely on machine learning (ML) algorithms to identify irregular or potentially fraudulent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alexander Bakumenko , Kateřina Hlaváčková-Schindler , Claudia Plant , Nina C. Hubig

This project explores large language models (LLMs) for anomaly detection across heterogeneous log sources. Traditional intrusion detection systems suffer from high false positive rates, semantic blindness, and data scarcity, as logs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yassine Chagna , Antal Goldschmidt

Anomaly detection in supercomputers is a very difficult problem due to the big scale of the systems and the high number of components. The current state of the art for automated anomaly detection employs Machine Learning methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Andrea Borghesi , Andrea Bartolini , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano , Luca Benini

Anomaly detection is to identify samples that do not conform to the distribution of the normal data. Due to the unavailability of anomalous data, training a supervised deep neural network is a cumbersome task. As such, unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , John Taylor Jewell , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Log anomaly detection (LAD) is essential to ensure safe and stable operation of software systems. Although current LAD methods exhibit significant potential in addressing challenges posed by unstable log events and temporal sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiyu Tian , Mingchu Li , Zumin Wang , Liming Chen , Jing Qin , Runfa Zhang

Log-based anomaly detection is critical for ensuring the stability and reliability of web systems. One of the key problems in this task is the lack of sufficient labeled logs, which limits the rapid deployment in new systems. Existing works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Xixuan Yang , Ying Li

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

Automated analysis methods are crucial aids for monitoring and defending a network to protect the sensitive or confidential data it hosts. This work introduces a flexible, powerful, and unsupervised approach to detecting anomalous behavior…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Aaron Tuor , Ryan Baerwolf , Nicolas Knowles , Brian Hutchinson , Nicole Nichols , Rob Jasper

Anomaly detection is the task of identifying abnormal behavior of a system. Anomaly detection in computational workflows is of special interest because of its wide implications in various domains such as cybersecurity, finance, and social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hongwei Jin , Krishnan Raghavan , George Papadimitriou , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman , Prasanna Balaprakash

Software-intensive systems produce logs for troubleshooting purposes. Recently, many deep learning models have been proposed to automatically detect system anomalies based on log data. These models typically claim very high detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Anomaly detection in computational workflows is critical for ensuring system reliability and security. However, traditional rule-based methods struggle to detect novel anomalies. This paper leverages large language models (LLMs) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hongwei Jin , George Papadimitriou , Krishnan Raghavan , Pawel Zuk , Prasanna Balaprakash , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman

Health monitoring is important for maintaining reliable information and communications technology (ICT) systems. Anomaly detection methods based on machine learning, which train a model for describing "normality" are promising for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Kengo Tajiri , Yasuhiro Ikeda , Yuusuke Nakano , Keishiro Watanabe