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Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

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Deep Learning has emerged as one of the most significant innovations in machine learning. However, a notable limitation of this field lies in the ``black box" decision-making processes, which have led to skepticism within groups like…

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Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims at finding nodes whose patterns deviate significantly from the majority of reference nodes, which is pervasive in many applications such as network intrusion detection and social spammer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Zuoyong Li

We present FACADE, a novel probabilistic and geometric framework designed for unsupervised mechanistic anomaly detection in deep neural networks. Its primary goal is advancing the understanding and mitigation of adversarial attacks. FACADE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Dhruv Pai , Andres Carranza , Rylan Schaeffer , Arnuv Tandon , Sanmi Koyejo

Tensor networks, a class of variational quantum many-body wave functions have attracted considerable research interest across many disciplines, including classical machine learning. Recently, Aizpurua et al. demonstrated explainable anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hans Hohenfeld , Marius Beuerle , Elie Mounzer

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is essential for pinpointing the root causes of failures in microservice systems. Traditional data-driven RCA methods are typically limited to offline applications due to high computational demands, and existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Haifeng Chen

Pursuing fast and robust interpretability in Anomaly Detection is crucial, especially due to its significance in practical applications. Traditional Anomaly Detection methods excel in outlier identification but are often black-boxes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Valentina Zaccaria , David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Gian Antonio Susto

In the real world, anomalous entities often add more legitimate connections while hiding direct links with other anomalous entities, leading to heterophilic structures in anomalous networks that most GNN-based techniques fail to address.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Wenjun Wang , Minglai Shao , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

Recently, graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has attracted growing attention in data mining and machine learning communities. Apart from attribute anomalies, graph anomaly detection also aims at suspicious topological-abnormal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingcan Duan , Bin Xiao , Siwei Wang , Haifang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

In large-scale online services, crucial metrics, a.k.a., key performance indicators (KPIs), are monitored periodically to check their running statuses. Generally, KPIs are aggregated along multiple dimensions and derived by complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shifu Yan , Caihua Shan , Wenyi Yang , Bixiong Xu , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu , Jie Tong , Qi Zhang

As an intuitive description of complex physical, social, or brain systems, complex networks have fascinated scientists for decades. Recently, to abstract a network's structural and dynamical attributes for utilization, network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yue Deng

In future power systems, the detailed structure and dynamics may not always be fully known. This is due to an increasing number of distributed energy resources, such as photovoltaic generators, battery storage systems, heat pumps and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Hannes M. H. Wolf , Christian A. Hans

In the recent times, autoencoders, besides being used for compression, have been proven quite useful even for regenerating similar images or help in image denoising. They have also been explored for anomaly detection in a few cases.…

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Despite the success of deep learning in dermoscopy image analysis, its inherent black-box nature hinders clinical trust, motivating the use of prototypical networks for case-based visual transparency. However, inevitable selection bias in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Junhao Jia , Yueyi Wu , Huangwei Chen , Haodong Jing , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu , Lei Wu

Sovereign network functions, e.g., routing protocols, are becoming increasingly complex and susceptible to failures arising from protocol configuration anomalies and anomalous configurations. This paper interprets the protocol configuration…

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The widespread adoption of encrypted communication protocols such as HTTPS and TLS has enhanced data privacy but also rendered traditional anomaly detection techniques less effective, as they often rely on inspecting unencrypted payloads.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Kalindi Singh , Aayush Kashyap , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Real-world observational datasets and machine learning have revolutionized data-driven decision-making, yet many models rely on empirical associations that may be misleading due to confounding and subgroup heterogeneity. Simpson's paradox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xian Teng , Yu-Ru Lin

Detecting the anomaly behaviors such as network failure or Internet intentional attack in the large-scale Internet is a vital but challenging task. While numerous techniques have been developed based on Internet traffic in past years,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Jinfa Wang , Siyuan Jia , Hai Zhao , Jiuqiang Xu , Chuan Lin

Anomaly detection through employing machine learning techniques has emerged as a novel powerful tool in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Historically similar to the development of jet observables, theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-02 Oliver Atkinson , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Christoph Englert , Partha Konar , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

This paper presents an approach for identifying the root causes of collective anomalies given observational time series and an acyclic summary causal graph which depicts an abstraction of causal relations present in a dynamic system at its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Charles K. Assaad , Imad Ez-zejjari , Lei Zan