Detects anomalies relative to typical observations.
problem Common anomaly detection methods fail for frequent anomalies.
method Relative anomaly detection, considering location relative to typical observations.
result Effective for frequent anomalies, computationally feasible, real-time detection.
Batch uniformization improves anomaly detection in sound data.
problem Anomaly scores for rare and frequent normal sounds are not uniform.
method Propose batch uniformization to minimize anomaly scores by weighting samples based on their density.
result Improves performance of unsupervised anomaly detection in sound data.
Detects systematic anomalies in consumer complaints using NLP.
problem Detecting small, frequent anomalies in consumer complaints.
method NLP conversion of narratives, followed by anomaly detection algorithm.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of NLP for detecting systematic anomalies.
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.
Unified model for signed networks separates balance and anomaly effects.
problem Ignoring sign information in signed networks leads to inaccurate analysis.
method Low rank plus sparse matrix decomposition with regularized formulation.
result The model accurately detects communities and anomalies in signed networks.
A new model combines VAE and GAN for better anomaly detection in imbalanced datasets.
problem Anomaly detection in imbalanced datasets, especially in medical applications.
method β-VAEGAN model combining VAE and GAN, kernelized SVM for anomaly scores, and deviation from Gaussian prior.
result Improved F1 score from 0.85 to 0.92 on MITBIH Arrhythmia Database. This paper reviews self-supervised learning methods for time series anomaly detection.
problem Challenges in traditional unsupervised methods for time series anomaly detection.
method Self-supervised learning techniques for time series anomaly detection.
result Enhanced performance of anomaly detectors through self-supervised learning.
Proposes BA method for unbiased time series anomaly detection evaluation.
problem Anomalies in time series data are rare, making F1-score unreliable.
method Introduces Balanced Point Adjustment (BA) to address F1-score bias.
result BA provides fairer evaluation of time series anomaly detectors.
GANF uses normalizing flows to detect anomalies in multiple time series.
problem Detecting anomalies in multiple time series with interdependencies.
method Bayesian network integration with normalizing flows for unsupervised anomaly detection.
result GANF effectively detects anomalies and identifies distribution drift in time series data.
New algorithms detect anomalies in high-dimensional data using less space than traditional methods.
problem Finding anomalies in high-dimensional data using PCA-based scores efficiently.
method Developed streaming algorithms using linear or sublinear space, and proved matrix perturbation inequalities.
result Proved that certain matrix sketching techniques can approximate PCA-based anomaly scores efficiently.
Topological anomaly scores predict return curves in S&P 500 stocks
problem Detecting anomalies in financial time series
method BallMapper, decoder-conditional VAE, Function-on-Function regression
result Anomaly history carries predictive content for return curves
This paper tackles the 'Clever Hans' effect in anomaly detection models.
problem The 'Clever Hans' effect undermines the generalization capability of anomaly detection models.
method An explainable AI procedure to highlight relevant features used by anomaly detection models.
result The Clever Hans effect is widespread in anomaly detection and occurs in many forms.
TadGAN detects anomalies in time series data using GANs and LSTM.
problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in time series data, especially without labeled data.
method TadGAN uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks to capture temporal correlations and compute anomaly scores.
result TadGAN outperforms 8 baseline methods in most cases, achieving the highest averaged F1 score.
ACE algorithm detects anomalies faster and uses less memory.
problem Anomaly detection in big data with memory and latency constraints.
method Arrays of Count Estimators (ACE) using Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH).
result 60x faster than existing methods, requires <4MB memory.
GBOC detects anomalies in time series data using granular-ball vectors.
problem Challenges in modeling normal behavior in dynamic, nonlinear time series data.
method Granular-ball Vector Data Description (GVDD) and Granular-ball One-Class Network (GBOC).
result GBOC improves anomaly detection in time series data.
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.
Automated methods detect errors in XML electronic dictionaries via statistical anomalies.
problem Errors in XML electronic dictionaries, especially in fields like text.
method Statistical anomaly detection using various signals like uncommon characters, text length, and language models.
result Automated systems improve efficiency in detecting errors in XML electronic dictionaries.
Detects anomalies and locates their causes in large, high-dimensional data.
problem Locating hidden issues in complex systems with high-dimensional data.
method Copula-based model for multivariate probability distributions.
result Can identify and localize anomalies in large, high-dimensional data.
New method reduces inventory inaccuracies by 10x, saving retailers 4% annually.
problem Inaccurate inventory records cost retailers 4% annually, and manual detection is impractical.
method Proposes a new anomaly detection method for low-rank Poisson matrices using cross-sectional data.
result Our approach reduces anomaly detection costs by up to 10x compared to existing methods.
Size effect persists in equity markets, with CMH portfolios less correlated to Low-Vol anomaly.
problem The persistence and significance of the size effect in equity markets.
method Analysis of dollar-turnover, β-neutralisation, and Low-Vol neutralisation. result Size-based portfolios are less anti-correlated to Low-Vol anomaly compared to market-cap based SMB.
Simpler autoencoder with regularization outperforms complex alternatives.
problem Autoencoders can generalize to anomalous data, leading to low reconstruction errors.
method Targeted collapse regularization to improve autoencoder performance.
result The method matches and often outperforms more complex anomaly detection techniques.
This work compares OmniAnomaly with PCA for MTSAD, finding PCA can match or outperform OmniAnomaly.
problem Comparing deep learning models with classical methods in MTSAD under fair evaluation protocols.
method Systematic comparison of OmniAnomaly and PCA on SMD, using identical thresholding and evaluation procedures.
result PCA can achieve performance comparable to OmniAnomaly and even outperform it under certain conditions.
robROSE tackles imbalanced fraud data by creating synthetic samples and detecting outliers.
problem Detecting fraud in imbalanced data sets where fraud is a minority class.
method Combines oversampling techniques with robust statistics to handle anomalies.
result robROSE enhances fraud detection while ignoring anomalies.
This paper benchmarks UNSW-NB15 as a modern alternative to KDD-99 for A-NIDS.
problem Skewed response distribution and non-stationarity in KDD-99 hamper A-NIDS performance.
method Compared UNSW-NB15 to KDD-99 and NSL-KDD using various classification models and SMOTE oversampling.
result UNSW-NB15 outperforms KDD-99 and NSL-KDD in minority class performance, suggesting it as a better benchmark.
Paper proposes an efficient method for calibrating spatio-temporal forecasts.
problem Real-world spatio-temporal forecasting challenges like signal anomalies and distributional shifts.
method Learning with Calibration (ST-TTC) for real-time bias correction.
result ST-TTC improves spatio-temporal forecasting accuracy with reduced computational cost.
Properties of data are frequently seen to vary depending on the sampled situations, which usually changes along a time evolution or owing to environmental effects. One way to analyze such data is to find invariances, or representative features kept constant over changes. The aim of this paper is to identify one such fe…
Optimizes variational autoencoder for detecting missing data in Mars rover transmissions.
problem Detecting missing data in Mars rover transmissions to prevent volume loss and corruption.
method Applies derivative-free optimization to tune variational autoencoder.
result Improves variational autoencoder's ability to detect missing data, aiding GDSA team.
We develop a theoretical trading conditioning model subject to price volatility and return information in terms of market psychological behavior, based on analytical transaction volume-price probability wave distributions in which we use transaction volume probability to describe price volatility uncertainty and intens…
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.
End-to-end anomaly detection framework using labeled anomalies.
problem Limited deep learning for anomaly detection and inefficiency of existing methods.
method Deviation learning neural network with labeled anomalies and prior probability.
result Significantly better anomaly scoring than state-of-the-art methods.
PReNet detects seen and unseen anomalies using pairwise relations.
problem Detecting unseen anomalies in semi-supervised learning.
method Pairwise Relation prediction Network (PReNet) learns anomaly and normal patterns.
result PReNet significantly outperforms nine competing methods in anomaly detection.
CANARI detects near-anomalies to predict future anomalies proactively.
problem Uncertainty in anomaly detection near distribution boundaries.
method Christoffel-based ANomaly Anticipation for eaRly dIscovery (CANARI) method.
result CANARI outperforms baseline methods in detecting near-anomalies and predicting future anomalies.
Proposes a method for anomaly detection with inexact labels.
problem Handling anomaly detection with inexact labels.
method Trains an anomaly score function using a neural network-based unsupervised method, maximizing the inexact AUC.
result Improves anomaly detection performance with inexact labels and outperforms existing methods.
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.
A new method assigns anomaly scores to features for better interpretation.
problem Interpreting anomaly scores from feature attributions.
method Proposes a characteristic function to attribute anomaly scores using Shapley value.
result Demonstrates the potential utility of the proposed attribution methods.
Efficient method detects point and collective anomalies in data sequences.
problem Efficiently identifying anomalies in data sequences, especially collective anomalies.
method CAPA: a computationally efficient approach for detecting collective and point anomalies.
result CAPA is consistent at detecting collective anomalies and has close to linear computational cost.
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.
New anomaly estimator reduces bias in MLE for normally distributed data.
problem Bias in Maximum Likelihood Estimation of structured anomalies.
method Derive a new anomaly estimator using a mixture model.
result New estimator is asymptotically unbiased regardless of anomaly family size.
TPA-AD detects axle-box bearing anomalies using pseudo anomalies near normal boundaries.
problem Detecting axle-box bearing anomalies with only normal training data.
method Two-stage approach: pseudo anomalies, contrastive learning, KNN.
result Improves anomaly detection separability and sensitivity to degradation.
Paper proposes RAN for better anomaly detection in time series data.
problem Anomaly detection algorithms often fail to accurately detect anomalies due to incomplete reconstruction of anomaly data.
method RAN uses adversarial learning and latent vector-constrained Autoencoder to ensure consistent reconstruction of anomaly data.
result RAN outperforms other algorithms in detecting meaningful anomalies with higher AUC-ROC scores.
A new method combines generative and feature-based approaches for unsupervised anomaly detection.
problem Identifying subtle anomalies in test samples compared to a normative distribution.
method A generative cold-diffusion pipeline trained to restore synthetically-corrupted images, combined with a novel synthetic anomaly generation procedure and ensembling restorations.
result Surpasses prior state-of-the-art for unsupervised anomaly detection in three Brain MRI datasets.
Paper tackles anomaly detection and RCA in dynamical systems using ICODE Networks.
problem Anomalies in dynamical systems impact performance and reliability.
method Proposes ICODE Networks for anomaly detection, RCA, and type classification.
result Demonstrates the ability to accurately detect anomalies, classify types, and pinpoint origins.
Study identifies high-density anomalies in normal data regions.
problem Detecting anomalies in normal data regions.
method Introduces non-parametric algorithmic frameworks for unsupervised detection.
result IPP framework yields the best detection results.
Develops efficient method to detect multiple collective anomalies in multivariate data streams.
problem Detecting anomalies in multivariate data streams, especially collective anomalies.
method MVCAPA: A method that efficiently detects multiple collective anomalies without approximations.
result MVCAPA consistently estimates the number and location of collective anomalies.
Algorithm detects anomalies in large, complex data sets.
problem Detecting shifts in data distribution, especially in high-dimensional, non-uniform data.
method Adversarial autoencoder for gaussianization of data.
result Effective detection of soft anomalies in various domains.
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.
Paper studies dual Anomaly flow under T-duality.
problem Understanding dual Anomaly flow under T-duality.
method Introduced a family of monotone functionals to estimate the dilaton function.
result Detailed examples and reductions of the dual Anomaly flow.
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.