Identifying anomalous patterns in real-world data is essential for understanding where, when, and how systems deviate from their expected dynamics. Yet methods that separately consider the anomalousness of each individual data point have low detection power for subtle, emerging irregularities. Additionally, recent dete…
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This work views neural networks as data generating systems and applies anomalous pattern detection techniques on that data in order to detect when a network is processing an anomalous input. Detecting anomalies is a critical component for multiple machine learning problems including detecting adversarial noise. More br…
We propose an algorithm for detecting patterns exhibited by anomalous clusters in high dimensional discrete data. Unlike most anomaly detection (AD) methods, which detect individual anomalies, our proposed method detects groups (clusters) of anomalies; i.e. sets of points which collectively exhibit abnormal patterns. I…
Special issue on understanding physical processes from unusual diffusion patterns.
problem Understanding physical processes from anomalous diffusion data.
method Not explicitly described in the abstract, but likely involves analysis of data from the Anomalous Diffusion Challenge.
result Not explicitly stated, but likely includes analysis of physical processes from anomalous diffusion data.
HYPA-DBGNN detects anomalous sequential patterns in temporal graphs.
problem Modeling temporal patterns in dynamic graphs, especially considering deviations from random shuffling.
method Two-step approach combining null model inference and neural message passing.
result HYPA-DBGNN outperforms baseline methods in static node classification tasks.
Anomaly detection has numerous applications and has been studied vastly. We consider a complementary problem that has a much sparser literature: anomaly description. Interpretation of anomalies is crucial for practitioners for sense-making, troubleshooting, and planning actions. To this end, we present a new approach c…
Audio processing models based on deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks even when the adversarial audio waveform is 99.9% similar to a benign sample. Given the wide application of DNN-based audio recognition systems, detecting the presence of adversarial examples is of high practical relevance. By …
Finding anomalous subsequence in a long time series is a very important but difficult problem. Existing state-of-the-art methods have been focusing on searching for the subsequence that is the most dissimilar to the rest of the subsequences; however, they do not take into account the background patterns that contain th…
We consider the problem of identifying patterns in a data set that exhibit anomalous behavior, often referred to as anomaly detection. In most anomaly detection algorithms, the dissimilarity between data samples is calculated by a single criterion, such as Euclidean distance. However, in many cases there may not exist …
GANs improve anomaly detection in power plants, achieving nearly perfect classification.
problem Anomaly detection in power generation plants to identify irregularities.
method Used Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for anomaly detection in power generation plants.
result GANs achieved an accuracy rate of 98.99% in anomaly detection, significantly improved by data augmentation.
Detecting anomalous activity in human mobility data has a number of applications including road hazard sensing, telematic based insurance, and fraud detection in taxi services and ride sharing. In this paper we address two challenges that arise in the study of anomalous human trajectories: 1) a lack of ground truth dat…
In this paper we make two novel contributions to hierarchical clustering. First, we introduce an anomalous pattern initialisation method for hierarchical clustering algorithms, called A-Ward, capable of substantially reducing the time they take to converge. This method generates an initial partition with a sufficiently…
We introduce the anti-profile Support Vector Machine (apSVM) as a novel algorithm to address the anomaly classification problem, an extension of anomaly detection where the goal is to distinguish data samples from a number of anomalous and heterogeneous classes based on their pattern of deviation from a normal stable c…
We consider the problem of identifying patterns in a data set that exhibit anomalous behavior, often referred to as anomaly detection. Similarity-based anomaly detection algorithms detect abnormally large amounts of similarity or dissimilarity, e.g.~as measured by nearest neighbor Euclidean distances between a test sam…
Study financial markets using synchronization measures and clustering algorithms.
problem Analyze high-frequency trading dynamics and market states.
method Ordinal pattern series, information-theoretic synchronization measure, clustering algorithms, Markov model.
result Identify two coherent seasons of centralized and decentralized synchronicity.
Extreme Learning Machine for the Characterization of Anomalous Diffusion from Single Trajectories (AnDi-ELM)physics.data-an
ELM combines machine learning and feature engineering for anomalous diffusion detection.
problem Quantitative characterization of anomalous diffusion from single trajectories.
method Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) combined with feature engineering.
result ELM achieves satisfactory performance in AnDi challenge tasks.
A statistical test controls false positives in anomaly localization using diffusion models.
problem Uncertainty and bias in generative models for anomaly localization.
method Selective inference to quantify significance and control false positives.
result The method effectively controls false positive detection rates.
MISA detects Trojan triggers in neural networks at inference time.
problem Trojan attacks on neural networks that respond to specific trigger patterns.
method MISA uses misattributions to detect anomalous feature activations.
result MISA achieves 96% AUC in detecting Trojan triggers without assumptions.
This paper predicts stock prices during unusual events like the pandemic.
problem Lack of models to predict stock price changes during catastrophic events.
method ARIMA, LSTM, sentiment analysis models trained on historical data.
result Achieved 98% prediction accuracy for stock prices during anomalous circumstances.
Early detection and precise characterization of emerging topics in text streams can be highly useful in applications such as timely and targeted public health interventions and discovering evolving regional business trends. Many methods have been proposed for detecting emerging events in text streams using topic modeli…
Paper detects anomalous edges in social networks using edge exchangeability.
problem Detecting anomalous edges in directed social networks.
method Exploits edge exchangeability and uses conformal prediction theory.
result Proposed anomaly detector has a guaranteed upper bound for false positives.
Paper introduces kernel methods for detecting anomalous changes in remote sensing imagery.
problem Detecting anomalous changes in remote sensing imagery.
method Nonlinear extension of Gaussian and elliptically contoured distribution algorithms using reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result Improved detection accuracy and reduced false-alarm rates compared to linear formulations.
DCASE 2021 ASD task tackles domain-shifted anomalous sound detection.
problem Detecting unknown anomalous sounds under domain-shifted conditions.
method Ensemble of outlier exposure and inlier modeling detectors, feature learning from machine identification.
result Two types of remarkable approaches were adopted by top teams.
Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Sound based on Deep Learning and the Neyman-Pearson Lemmastat.ML
This paper proposes a novel optimization principle and its implementation for unsupervised anomaly detection in sound (ADS) using an autoencoder (AE). The goal of unsupervised-ADS is to detect unknown anomalous sound without training data of anomalous sound. Use of an AE as a normal model is a state-of-the-art techniqu…
The paper explores anomalous subvarieties in hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their geometric implications.
problem Understanding anomalous subvarieties in holonomy varieties of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Analyzing the structure of anomalous subvarieties and their relation to geometric properties of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result Maximal anomalous subvarieties of holonomy varieties correspond to specific geometric configurations of cusps in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
The nonparametric problem of detecting existence of an anomalous interval over a one dimensional line network is studied. Nodes corresponding to an anomalous interval (if exists) receive samples generated by a distribution q, which is different from the distribution p that generates samples for other nodes. If anomalou…
Paper discusses ASD challenge for machine condition monitoring.
problem Detecting unknown anomalous sounds without labeled data.
method Design and evaluation of a large-scale ASD dataset, novel approaches.
result Several novel approaches developed, evaluation results analyzed.
Bi-Mamba model predicts diffusion coefficients and exponents from short data.
problem Characterizing anomalous diffusion in complex systems.
method Bidirectional state-space deep learning architecture.
result Efficient inference of diffusion coefficient and exponent from short trajectories.
Nonparametric detection of existence of an anomalous structure over a network is investigated. Nodes corresponding to the anomalous structure (if one exists) receive samples generated by a distribution q, which is different from a distribution p generating samples for other nodes. If an anomalous structure does not exi…
Study detects anomalies in robot vision data to predict hazards.
problem Detecting unexpected hazards in robot exploration data.
method Anomaly detection using autoencoders at different scales.
result Autoencoders improve anomaly detection performance on diverse robot scenarios.
Proposes OC4Seq for detecting anomalies in discrete event sequences.
problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in discrete event sequences, including data imbalance, discrete events, and sequential nature.
method Integrates anomaly detection with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to embed sequences into latent spaces and designs a multi-scale RNN framework to capture multi-scale sequential patterns.
result OC4Seq consistently outperforms various baselines on three benchmark datasets.
Simulates financial market orders using anomalous diffusion models.
problem Anomalous diffusion in financial market order dynamics.
method Discrete Time Random Walk with Sibuya waiting times, non-uniform sampling, and cubic spline interpolation.
result Demonstrates price impact for different forcing functions and model parameters.
Social media sites are becoming a key factor in politics. These platforms are easy to manipulate for the purpose of distorting information space to confuse and distract voters. Past works to identify disruptive patterns are mostly focused on analyzing the content of tweets. In this study, we jointly embed the informati…
Paper introduces IAD for detecting anomalous VMMs in cloud without VMM access.
problem Anomalous VMMs in cloud-based environments without direct access.
method IAD: Indirect Anomalous VMMs Detection algorithm using VM resource utilization data.
result IAD algorithm outperforms other methods with an average F1-score of 83.7%.
This paper introduces a new dataset called "ToyADMOS" designed for anomaly detection in machine operating sounds (ADMOS). To the best our knowledge, no large-scale datasets are available for ADMOS, although large-scale datasets have contributed to recent advancements in acoustic signal processing. This is because anoma…
Anomalous diffusion in SGD reveals interactions between hyperparameters and Hessian.
problem Understanding the limiting dynamics of SGD in deep neural networks.
method Continuous-time model of SGD as an underdamped Langevin equation, derived for linear regression.
result Anomalous diffusion is explained by modified loss and probability currents in phase space.
The recent increase in the scale and complexity of software systems has introduced new challenges to the time series monitoring and anomaly detection process. A major drawback of existing anomaly detection methods is that they lack contextual information to help stakeholders identify the cause of anomalies. This proble…
In this paper, we investigate algorithms for anomaly detection. Previous anomaly detection methods focus on modeling the distribution of non-anomalous data provided during training. However, this does not necessarily ensure the correct detection of anomalous data. We propose a new Regularized Cycle Consistent Generativ…
Paper uses DBSCAN variation to detect ship anomalies.
problem Detecting anomalous ship behavior.
method Variation of DBSCAN algorithm applied to AIS data.
result Alternative anomaly metric is more statistically informative.
Cliques, or fully connected subgraphs, are among the most important and well-studied graph motifs in network science. We consider the problem of finding a statisti- cally anomalous clique hidden in a large network. There are two parts to this problem: (1) detection, i.e., determining whether an anomalous clique is pres…
New method explains anomalies in multivariate time series data.
problem Understanding and explaining anomalies in multivariate time series data.
method Counterfactual reasoning applied to MDI-detected anomalous intervals.
result Our method accurately identifies and explains anomalies in various extreme events.
A nonparametric anomalous hypothesis testing problem is investigated, in which there are totally n sequences with s anomalous sequences to be detected. Each typical sequence contains m independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples drawn from a distribution p, whereas each anomalous sequence contains m i.i.d.…
A new method detects anomalies in trajectory data using normalizing flows.
problem Detecting anomalous patterns in high-dimensional, varying-length spatial data.
method Probability density estimation via normalizing flows for each trajectory segment, aggregating likelihoods.
result The proposed method, GRADINGS, effectively identifies anomalies in real-world trajectory data.
The state of a stochastic process evolving over a time is typically assumed to lie on a normal distribution whose width scales like . However, processes where the probability distribution is not normal and the scaling exponent differs from are known. The search for possible origins of such "a…
Paper introduces MoM-KDE for robust density estimation robust to anomalous data.
problem Density estimation robustness to anomalous data.
method Combines Kernel Density Estimation and Median-of-Means principle.
result Achieves competitive results with lower computational complexity compared to other robust estimators.
Anomaly detection is a challenging task that frequently arises in practically all areas of industry and science, from fraud detection and data quality monitoring to finding rare cases of diseases and searching for new physics. Most of the conventional approaches to anomaly detection, such as one-class SVM and Robust Au…
Discrete return (DR) Laser Detection and Ranging (Ladar) systems provide a series of echoes that reflect from objects in a scene. These can be first, last or multi-echo returns. In contrast, Full-Waveform (FW)-Ladar systems measure the intensity of light reflected from objects continuously over a period of time. In a c…
A wide variety of application domains are concerned with data consisting of entities and their relationships or connections, formally represented as graphs. Within these diverse application areas, a common problem of interest is the detection of a subset of entities whose connectivity is anomalous with respect to the r…