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Paper introduces an unsupervised tensor-based anomaly detection method for spatiotemporal data.

problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in spatiotemporal data, especially in urban traffic monitoring and medical imaging.
method Formulates anomaly detection as a regularized robust low-rank + sparse tensor decomposition, incorporating spatiotemporal smoothness and local dependencies.
result Demonstrates improved anomaly detection performance on both synthetic and real data.

System states that are anomalous from the perspective of a domain expert occur frequently in some anomaly detection problems. The performance of commonly used unsupervised anomaly detection methods may suffer in that setting, because they use frequency as a proxy for anomaly. We propose a novel concept for anomaly dete…

2016-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Method detects anomalies on attributed graphs with few labeled instances.

problem Detecting anomalies on connected instances (attributed graphs) with limited labeled data.
method Embed nodes in latent space using GCNs, training to distinguish normal and anomalous nodes.
result Method outperforms existing methods on real-world attributed graph datasets.

RESHAPE explains financial statement anomalies by aggregating explanations from AENNs.

problem Detecting and explaining accounting anomalies in financial audits is challenging.
method Proposes RESHAPE to explain model output on an aggregated attribute-level.
result RESHAPE provides more comprehensible explanations compared to existing methods.

Anomaly detection identifies unusual malaria transmission patterns in Ghana.

problem Identifying atypical malaria transmission patterns in Ghana's spatiotemporal surveillance data.
method Consensus-based anomaly detection framework applied to monthly malaria surveillance data.
result High-burden areas are not necessarily those with the most frequent anomalous transmission.

Paper proposes a new anomaly detection method using Random Forest with Mallows-like criterion.

problem Inherent uncertainty in model selection for anomaly detection.
method Integrates Mallows-like criterion into Random Forest algorithm for anomaly detection.
result Proposed method outperforms traditional methods in accuracy and robustness.

CrossAD detects anomalies in time series data by considering cross-scale associations and cross-window modeling.

problem Anomaly detection in time series data is challenging due to varying patterns at different scales and fixed window sizes.
method CrossAD incorporates cross-scale reconstruction and a query library to capture dynamic cross-scale associations and comprehensive context.
result CrossAD achieves state-of-the-art performance in anomaly detection across multiple real-world datasets.

RDLI integrates domain logic and context grounding to detect crypto anomalies under scarce labels.

problem Extreme label scarcity and evasion strategies in crypto networks.
method Relational Domain Logic Integration (RDLI) with Retrieval Grounded Context (RGC).
result RDLI outperforms GNN baselines by 28.9% in F1 score under 0.01% label scarcity.

Proposes a novel model-agnostic training procedure for anomaly detection incorporating known anomalies.

problem Challenges of anomaly detection, especially when only a few anomalous samples are available.
method Reformulates one-class classification as a binary classification problem, using pseudo-anomalous samples drawn from a normalizing flow model.
result Demonstrates comparable or superior performance on tasks with variable amounts of known anomalies.

This paper evaluates anomaly detection methods for multivariate time series data.

problem Lack of systematic comparison of anomaly detection methods on multivariate time series data.
method Comprehensive evaluation of 10 models and 4 scoring functions on 10 datasets.
result Dynamic scoring functions outperform static ones, and the choice of scoring functions matters more than the model choice.

We model anomaly and change in data by embedding the data in an ultrametric space. Taking our initial data as cross-tabulation counts (or other input data formats), Correspondence Analysis allows us to endow the information space with a Euclidean metric. We then model anomaly or change by an induced ultrametric. The in…

2008-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised anomaly detection aids doctors in evaluating X-ray images of hands.

problem Lack of labeled medical data and ambiguous symptoms in X-ray images.
method Adopting state-of-the-art unsupervised learning methods for anomaly detection and preprocessing.
result Without preprocessing, unsupervised methods perform randomly on X-ray images of hands.

DiFF-RF detects point-wise and collective anomalies using random partitioning trees.

problem Detecting anomalies in data, especially collective anomalies.
method Random partitioning binary trees with distance-based leaves and semi-supervised learning.
result DiFF-RF significantly outperforms isolation forest and one-class SVM.

This work builds a sensor graph from DC sensors for anomaly detection.

problem Anomaly detection in data centers with complex sensor relationships.
method Data-driven pipeline (ts2graph) to build a sensor graph from sensor time series.
result Graph neural network (GNN) outperforms existing methods by 2-3 times in anomaly detection.

The paper predicts and explains the decay of stock anomaly performance over time.

problem Predicting and explaining the drop in risk-adjusted performance of stock anomalies.
method The authors propose ex-ante characteristics based on hypotheses of out-of-sample decay and in-sample overfitting.
result The year of publication explains 30% of the variance in Sharpe decay across factors.

We argue that the AdS/CFT calculational prescription for double-trace deformations leads to a holographic derivation of the conformal anomaly, and its conformal primitive, associated to the whole family of conformally covariant powers of the Laplacian (GJMS operators) at the conformal boundary. The bulk side involves a…

2008-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a method for scalable and fully 3D magnetic field simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) using local anomalies in the magnetic field as a source of position information. These anomalies are due to the presence of ferromagnetic material in the structure of buildings and in objects such as furniture. We …

2018-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A new approach to VAEs tackles variance shrinkage using quantile regression.

problem Variance shrinkage in VAEs leads to underestimation of uncertainty.
method Using quantile regression to estimate mean and variance, avoiding shrinkage.
result Our approach effectively detects anomalies and improves lesion detection.

We find that when measured in terms of dollar-turnover, and once ββ-neutralised and Low-Vol neutralised, the Size Effect is alive and well. With a long term t-stat of 5.15.1, the "Cold-Minus-Hot" (CMH) anomaly is certainly not less significant than other well-known factors such as Value or Quality. As compared to marke…

2017-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves anomaly detection with contaminated unlabeled data.

problem Weakness in existing semi-supervised anomaly detection methods when unlabeled data contain anomalies.
method Integrates positive-unlabeled learning with deep anomaly detection models.
result Achieves better detection performance on various datasets.

Nowadays, organizations collect vast quantities of accounting relevant transactions, referred to as 'journal entries', in 'Enterprise Resource Planning' (ERP) systems. The aggregation of those entries ultimately defines an organization's financial statement. To detect potential misstatements and fraud, international au…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new k-NN algorithm to improve classification accuracy by removing noise and pseudo-neighbours.

problem Noise and pseudo-neighbours in large-scale databases affect k-NN performance.
method Introduces a weighted mutual k-Nearest Neighbour algorithm to detect and remove noise, and minimize distant neighbours' influence.
result The proposed algorithm provides comparative better results compared to standard k-NN.

Deep RL detects anomalies from few labeled examples and large unlabeled data.

problem Anomaly detection with limited labeled data and large unlabeled data.
method Deep reinforcement learning to optimize detection of labeled and unlabeled anomalies.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 48 real-world datasets.

We propose a supervised anomaly detection method for data with inexact anomaly labels, where each label, which is assigned to a set of instances, indicates that at least one instance in the set is anomalous. Although many anomaly detection methods have been proposed, they cannot handle inexact anomaly labels. To measur…

2019-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent semi-supervised anomaly detection methods that are trained using small labeled anomaly examples and large unlabeled data (mostly normal data) have shown largely improved performance over unsupervised methods. However, these methods often focus on fitting abnormalities illustrated by the given anomaly examples on…

2019-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new feature representations to enable downstream anomaly detection methods, perform in…

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Ensemble learning improves anomaly detection for milder symptoms.

problem Difficulty in detecting incipient anomalies due to similarity to normal conditions.
method Utilize uncertainty information from ensemble learning to identify misclassified incipient anomalies.
result Ensemble learning methods show improved performance on incipient anomaly detection.