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Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) aims to reverse-engineer model behaviors by identifying functional sub-networks. Yet, the scientific validity of these findings depends on their stability. In this work, we argue that circuit discovery is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Maxime Méloux , François Portet , Maxime Peyrard

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are widely used in industry, and their security and stability are very important. Once the ICS is attacked, it may cause serious damage. Therefore, it is very important to detect anomalies in ICSs. ICS can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dongyang Zhan , Wenqi Zhang , Lin Ye , Xiangzhan Yu , Hongli Zhang , Zheng He

Root Cause Analysis for Anomalies is challenging because of the trade-off between the accuracy and its explanatory friendliness, required for industrial applications. In this paper we propose a framework for simple and friendly RCA within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Maciej Skorski

Graph Neural Networks achieve remarkable results on problems with structured data but come as black-box predictors. Transferring existing explanation techniques, such as occlusion, fails as even removing a single node or edge can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lukas Faber , Amin K. Moghaddam , Roger Wattenhofer

Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source is clean, i.e., features and labels are correctly set.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Rui Han , Bogdan Robu , Sara Bouchenak , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Lydia Y. Chen

This paper presents a novel application of explainable AI (XAI) for root-causing performance degradation in machine learning models that learn continuously from user engagement data. In such systems a single feature corruption can cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ramanathan Vishnampet , Rajesh Shenoy , Jianhui Chen , Anuj Gupta

Machines of all kinds from vehicles to industrial equipment are increasingly instrumented with hundreds of sensors. Using such data to detect anomalous behaviour is critical for safety and efficient maintenance. However, anomalies occur…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Mohit Yadav , Pankaj Malhotra , Lovekesh Vig , K Sriram , Gautam Shroff

Coupled oscillator networks show a complex interrelations between topological characteristics of the network and the nonlinear stability of single nodes with respect to large but realistic perturbations. We extend previous results on these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Jan Nitzbon , Paul Schultz , Jobst Heitzig , Jürgen Kurths , Frank Hellmann

Anomaly detection consists in identifying, within a dataset, those samples that significantly differ from the majority of the data, representing the normal class. It has many practical applications, e.g. ranging from defective product…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Pankaj Mishra , Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

Ensuring the reliability and availability of complex networked services demands effective root cause analysis (RCA) across cloud environments, data centers, and on-premises networks. Traditional RCA methods, which involve manual inspection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alexander Shan , Jasleen Kaur , Rahul Singh , Tarun Banka , Raj Yavatkar , T. Sridhar

Understanding how neural networks transform inputs into outputs is crucial for interpreting and manipulating their behavior. Most existing approaches analyze internal representations by identifying hidden-layer activation patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Joshua Brendan Melander , Zaki Alaoui , Shenghua Liu , Surya Ganguli , Stephen A. Baccus

Anomaly detection is one of the most active research areas in various critical domains, such as healthcare, fintech, and public security. However, little attention has been paid to scholarly data, i.e., anomaly detection in a citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jiaying Liu , Feng Xia , Xu Feng , Jing Ren , Huan Liu

In the research area of anomaly detection, novel and promising methods are frequently developed. However, most existing studies exclusively focus on the detection task only and ignore the interpretability of the underlying models as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Cheng Feng , Pingge Hu

Anomaly detection in large industrial cooling systems is very challenging due to the high data dimensionality, inconsistent sensor recordings, and lack of labels. The state of the art for automated anomaly detection in these systems…

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the source of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This is particularly the case in aircraft engine health…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-10 Tsirizo Rabenoro , Jérôme Lacaille , Marie Cottrell , Fabrice Rossi

As a fundamental mathmatical tool in many engineering disciplines, coupled differential equation groups are being widely used to model complex structures containing multiple physical quantities. Engineers constantly adjust structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Wenhao Ding , Qing He , Hanghang Tong , Qingjing Wang , Ping Wang

The detection of anomalies is essential mining task for the security and reliability in computer systems. Logs are a common and major data source for anomaly detection methods in almost every computer system. They collect a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Causal analysis helps us understand variables that are responsible for system failures. This improves fault detection and makes system more reliable. In this work, we present a new method that combines causal inference with machine learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Karthik Peddi , Sai Ram Aditya Parisineni , Hemanth Macharla , Mayukha Pal

We develop a principled framework for discovering causal structure in partial differential equations (PDEs) using physics-informed neural networks and counterfactual perturbations. Unlike classical residual minimization or sparse regression…

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