Unified detector calibration and simulation using MLE from generative models.
problem Combining detector calibration and simulation using traditional methods.
method Maximum likelihood estimation from conditional generative models.
result Prior-independent and non-Gaussian resolutions possible.
Novel framework for unbiased confidence estimates in object detection.
problem Unbiased confidence estimates for safety-critical object detection.
method Combines regression output with additional information for calibration.
result Calibrated confidence estimates for image location and scale.
Resultant improves likelihood-based U-OOD detection across various tasks.
problem Improving likelihood-based U-OOD detection performance.
method Resultant combines post-hoc prior and dataset entropy-mutual calibration techniques.
result Resultant achieves new state-of-the-art U-OOD detection performance.
Machine-learned anomaly detection in new-physics searches needs calibration and look-elsewhere correction
problem Machine-learned anomaly detection in new-physics searches
method Conformal prediction layer
result Calibrated significance with distribution-free guarantees
Study evaluates predictive uncertainty in malware detection.
problem Detecting dataset shift and adversarial examples in malware detection.
method Re-designed and built 24 Android malware detectors, quantified their uncertainties with nine metrics.
result Predictive uncertainty helps reliable malware detection but not adversarial evasion attacks.
Improved OOD detection across various shifts using multi-encoder fusion of RDMs.
problem Out-of-distribution detection across multiple types of distribution shifts.
method Statistical identification of encoder sensitivity, EncMin2L fusion, and Tippett minimum combination.
result Achieves AUROC ≥ 0.94 across four shift types, outperforming state-of-the-art detectors.
New method calibrates false detection rates in sequential change detection.
problem Challenges in setting time-invariant thresholds for false positives.
method Simulation-based approach to time-varying thresholds.
result Accurately targets desired expected runtime while keeping false positive rate constant.
The paper highlights how machine learning calibrations can be biased by training data.
problem Machine learning calibrations can be biased by the training data, affecting downstream analyses.
method The paper examines simulation-based and data-based calibrations, highlighting their prior dependence and proposing solutions.
result A recently proposed Gaussian Ansatz approach can avoid some biases in simulation-based calibrations.
Morse neural networks improve uncertainty quantification and detection.
problem Uncertainty quantification and out-of-distribution detection.
method Generalizes unnormalized Gaussian densities to high-dimensional submanifolds using KL-divergence loss.
result Unified approach for OOD detection, anomaly detection, and continuous learning.
While camera and LiDAR processing have been revolutionized since the introduction of deep learning, radar processing still relies on classical tools. In this paper, we introduce a deep learning approach for radar processing, working directly with the radar complex data. To overcome the lack of radar labeled data, we re…
Estimates uncertainty in bounding box regression for object detection.
problem Reliable deployment of deep object detectors in safety-critical tasks.
method Training variance networks with energy score as a proper scoring rule.
result Energy score leads to better calibrated and lower entropy predictive distributions.
This study uses deep learning to improve the accuracy of raw data denoising in ProtoDUNE experiments.
problem Improving the accuracy of raw data denoising in ProtoDUNE experiments.
method Investigates two graph neural network architectures to enhance the receptive field of convolutional neural networks for raw data denoising.
result Graph neural network architectures outperform traditional algorithms in denoising raw ProtoDUNE data.
We introduce GLR-klUCB, a novel algorithm for the piecewise iid non-stationary bandit problem with bounded rewards. This algorithm combines an efficient bandit algorithm, kl-UCB, with an efficient, parameter-free, changepoint detector, the Bernoulli Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test, for which we provide new theoretica…
This letter presents the sparse vector signal detection from one bit compressed sensing measurements, in contrast to the previous works which deal with scalar signal detection. In this letter, available results are extended to the vector case and the GLRT detector and the optimal quantizer design are obtained. Also, a …
Enhanced regime shifts detection using unstructured text and financial data.
problem Detecting regime shifts in financial markets is challenging due to noisy and multicollinear data.
method Combines LLM reasoning on unstructured text and statistical validation on financial time series.
result Framework achieves F1 score of 0.82, outperforming pure data-driven methods.
Python package 'nonconform' simplifies conformal anomaly detection.
problem Heuristic thresholding in anomaly detection systems.
method 'nonconform' package converts anomaly scores into calibrated p-values.
result Statistically principled anomaly detection is made accessible.
Bayesian method estimates contamination factor for unsupervised anomaly detection.
problem No good methods for estimating contamination factor in unsupervised anomaly detection.
method Bayesian approach using mixture formulation of anomaly detector outputs.
result Estimated contamination factor distribution is well-calibrated and improves anomaly detection performance.
Adversarial perturbations fool deepfake detectors with high accuracy.
problem Improving deepfake detection accuracy against adversarial attacks.
method Used adversarial perturbations and two defenses: Lipschitz regularization and Deep Image Prior (DIP).
result Deepfake detectors achieved 27% accuracy on perturbed images, compared to 95% on unperturbed.
This paper studies concept drift detectors for financial time series.
problem Improving accuracy on financial time series with concept drifts.
method Three simple concept drift detectors tailored to financial time series.
result Two of the detectors are as effective as state-of-the-art detectors.
We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can exploit the full detector granularity, while natively managing the event sparsity and arbitrarily complex detector geometries…
Framework controls uncertainty in LLMs without labels or probabilities.
problem Managing uncertainty in black-box LLMs without token-level probability or true labels.
method Integrates generative models, UCP, and conformal alignment to control uncertainty.
result Achieves close-to-nominal coverage and tighter thresholds than split UCP.
In this paper, deep neural network (DNN) is utilized to improve the belief propagation (BP) detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A neural network architecture suitable for detection task is firstly introduced by unfolding BP algorithms. DNN MIMO detectors are then proposed based on two m…
New method uses neural networks to estimate parameters without needing detector simulations.
problem Estimating parameters in high-energy physics with detector effects.
method Two-level fitting approach: SRGN (Simulation-level fit based on Reweighting Generator-level events with Neural networks).
result Demonstrated using simulated datasets, SRGN can estimate parameters without detector effects.
The anomaly detection of time series is a hotspot of time series data mining. The own characteristics of different anomaly detectors determine the abnormal data that they are good at. There is no detector can be optimizing in all types of anomalies. Moreover, it still has difficulties in industrial production due to pr…
We introduce a Bayesian defect detector to facilitate the defect detection on the motion blurred images on rough texture surfaces. To enhance the accuracy of Bayesian detection on removing non-defect pixels, we develop a class of reflected non-local prior distributions, which is constructed by using the mode of a distr…
Modern smart grids rely on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks for monitoring and billing purposes. However, such an approach suffers from electricity theft cyberattacks. Different from the existing research that utilizes shallow, static, and customer-specific-based electricity theft detectors, this paper p…
TomOpt optimizes muon detector designs using differentiable programming.
problem Designing efficient particle detectors for muon tomography.
method Differentiable programming for muon interaction modeling, inference, and optimisation.
result Demonstrated end-to-end differentiable and inference-aware optimisation of particle physics instruments.
DCSO dynamically selects top-performing base detectors for outlier ensembles.
problem Challenges in selecting and combining outlier scores from different detectors.
method DCSO dynamically selects top-performing base detectors based on local k-nearest neighbors.
result DCSO provides consistent performance improvement over static combination approaches.
ImageNet pre-training has been regarded as essential for training accurate object detectors for a long time. Recently, it has been shown that object detectors trained from randomly initialized weights can be on par with those fine-tuned from ImageNet pre-trained models. However, the effects of pre-training and the diff…
Improves relevancy of black-box anomaly detectors with user feedback.
problem Users often ignore many detected anomalies, requiring a method to identify and prioritize relevant ones.
method Uses user feedback to adjust anomaly selection process based on identified anomaly types.
result Significant improvements in precision and recall over various anomaly detectors.
New methods improve anomaly detection with reduced false positives.
problem Effective anomaly detection with controlled error rates.
method Leave-one-out-, bootstrap-, and cross-conformal anomaly detection methods.
result Improved anomaly detection with reduced false positives.
Variational autoencoders model water Cherenkov detector data.
problem Modeling generative distribution of water Cherenkov detector data.
method Variational autoencoders and normalizing flows.
result Demonstrated capability of variational autoencoders for generative modelling.
In this paper, we consider signal detection algorithms in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) decode-forward (DF) relay channel with one source, one relay, and one destination. The existing suboptimal near maximum likelihood (NML) detector and the NML with two-level pair-wise error probability (NMLw2PEP) detector a…
Novel unsupervised MIG detectors improve signal detection in cluttered environments.
problem Signal detection in nonhomogeneous clutter environments.
method Developed novel discriminative MIG detectors using HPD matrices and geometric measures.
result Improved signal detection performance compared to conventional methods.
This paper proposes a generic classification system designed to detect security threats based on the behavior of malware samples. The system relies on statistical features computed from proxy log fields to train detectors using a database of malware samples. The behavior detectors serve as basic reusable building block…
CVAE detects weak complex signals in maritime radar, improving detection over classical methods.
problem Detecting weak complex-valued signals in non-Gaussian, range-varying interference.
method Complex-valued Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE) trained on clutter-plus-noise, whitening, ANMF fusion.
result CVAE yields higher detection probability Pd at matched false-alarm rate Pfa, especially with whitening.
Detect anomalies in complex networks using topological subspace detectors.
problem Detect anomalies in complex networks defined by simplicial complexes.
method Formulate a hypothesis testing framework using Neyman-Pearson matched topological subspace detectors.
result Effective detection of anomalies in foreign currency exchange networks and other real-world data.
Continuous dropout mimics brain neuron firing rates to prevent feature detector co-adaptation.
problem Preventing overfitting in deep neural networks.
method Extending binary dropout to continuous dropout, inspired by brain neuron firing rates.
result Continuous dropout improves test performance by preventing feature detector co-adaptation.
DALC customizes LSTM models for detectors in large-scale traffic networks.
problem Fine-grained traffic prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Formulated as a finite Markov decision process, introduced ALC algorithm for automatic customization, and developed DALC for distributed customization.
result DALC provides higher prediction accuracy than Apache Spark MLlib approaches.
Spectrum sensing is of critical importance in any cognitive radio system. When the primary user's signal has uncertain parameters, the likelihood ratio test, which is the theoretically optimal detector, generally has no closed-form expression. As a result, spectrum sensing under parameter uncertainty remains an open qu…
DistPre predicts traffic speeds efficiently for large networks.
problem Fine-grained, accurate speed prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Customizes LSTM models on a cluster, sharing trained models between detectors.
result Efficient and accurate fine-grained traffic-speed prediction.
A new OOD detector using an overlap index improves accuracy without high computational costs.
problem Effective OOD detection for machine learning models in open-world scenarios.
method Proposes an overlap index-based confidence score function for OOD detection.
result The proposed method achieves competitive accuracy with lower computational costs compared to state-of-the-art detectors.
New method uses SHapley Additive Explanations to identify anomaly detectors with complementary behaviors.
problem Challenges in unsupervised anomaly detection due to diverse data distributions and lack of labels.
method Characterize anomaly detectors using SHapley Additive Explanations to measure feature importance and similarity.
result Detectors with similar explanations produce correlated anomaly scores, while those with divergent explanations are complementary.
Study complex-valued VAEs for radar OOD detection.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution signals in complex radar environments.
method Proposed and compared several detection metrics for CVAE.
result CVAE-MSE and latent-based scores outperform ANMF-Tyler.
A novel UNet detector detects sheep in UAV imagery.
problem Detecting small objects (sheep) in UAV imagery.
method Developed a novel dataset, used various object detectors, and evaluated their performance.
result UNet detector with weighted Hausdorff distance is best for sheep detection.
Paper studies autoencoder-based anomaly detectors' robustness to adversarial poisoning attacks.
problem Adversarial poisoning attacks on online-trained autoencoder-based anomaly detectors in ICSs.
method Proposes two algorithms for generating poison samples and evaluates them on synthetic and real-world ICS data.
result Autoencoder detectors are resilient to poisoning in the face of all relevant attacks in the SWaT dataset.
Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the system while being quasi-imperceptible to a human. In this work, we propose to aug…
Modern neural networks are very powerful predictive models, but they are often incapable of recognizing when their predictions may be wrong. Closely related to this is the task of out-of-distribution detection, where a network must determine whether or not an input is outside of the set on which it is expected to safel…