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DTOR explains anomalies with rule-based explanations.
A method uses Shapley values and Mahalanobis distances to explain multivariate outliers.
New findings suggest deep generative models can misclassify outliers, requiring new evaluation methods.
This work describes an outlier detection procedure (named "OutlierTree") loosely based on the GritBot software developed by RuleQuest research, which works by evaluating and following supervised decision tree splits on variables, in whose branches 1-d confidence intervals are constructed for the target variable and pot…
The outlying property detection problem is the problem of discovering the properties distinguishing a given object, known in advance to be an outlier in a database, from the other database objects. In this paper, we analyze the problem within a context where numerical attributes are taken into account, which represents…
Outliers with opposing signals significantly affect neural network optimization.
Focuses on monitoring and explaining models in real-world applications.
Anomaly detection algorithms are often thought to be limited because they don't facilitate the process of validating results performed by domain experts. In Contrast, deep learning algorithms for anomaly detection, such as autoencoders, point out the outliers, saving experts the time-consuming task of examining normal …
Heavy-tailed outliers are more resilient to robust estimation than adversarial ones.
This paper introduces collective counterfactual explanations for groups of instances in classification models.
The initial analysis of any large data set can be divided into two phases: (1) the identification of common trends or patterns and (2) the identification of anomalies or outliers that deviate from those trends. We focus on the goal of detecting observations with novel content, which can alert us to artifacts in the dat…
New method converts LVAs into linear projections for better understanding of complex models.
Method identifies root causes of anomalies in causal processes.
RFX-Fuse combines Breiman and Cutler's Random Forest with modern ML capabilities.
Counterfactual explanations can be obtained by identifying the smallest change made to a feature vector to qualitatively influence a prediction; for example, from 'loan rejected' to 'awarded' or from 'high risk of cardiovascular disease' to 'low risk'. Previous approaches often emphasized that counterfactuals should be…
SurvLIME-KS improves survival model explanations robustly.
New experiments show deep networks benefit from memorizing rare data points.
We propose an inlier-based outlier detection method capable of both identifying the outliers and explaining why they are outliers, by identifying the outlier-specific features. Specifically, we employ an inlier-based outlier detection criterion, which uses the ratio of inlier and test probability densities as a measure…
A novel approach ODAR detects outliers for clustering.
Clustering, or unsupervised classification, is a task often plagued by outliers. Yet there is a paucity of work on handling outliers in clustering. Outlier identification algorithms tend to fall into three broad categories: outlier inclusion, outlier trimming, and post hoc outlier identification methods, with the forme…
New framework detects outliers in non-IID categorical data.
Outlier detection aims to identify unusual data instances that deviate from expected patterns. The outlier detection is particularly challenging when outliers are context dependent and when they are defined by unusual combinations of multiple outcome variable values. In this paper, we develop and study a new conditiona…
Paper proposes methods to make OT robust to outliers.
Outlier detection plays an essential role in many data-driven applications to identify isolated instances that are different from the majority. While many statistical learning and data mining techniques have been used for developing more effective outlier detection algorithms, the interpretation of detected outliers do…
Advances in sensor technology have enabled the collection of large-scale datasets. Such datasets can be extremely noisy and often contain a significant amount of outliers that result from sensor malfunction or human operation faults. In order to utilize such data for real-world applications, it is critical to detect ou…
Survey compares methods for generating artificial outliers.
Paper tackles outlier detection in signals modeled by generative models with theoretical guarantees.
Transforms distance-based outlier scores into interpretable probabilistic estimates.
Generates synthetic data for benchmarking unsupervised outlier detection.
A novel unsupervised outlier detection method using Randomized PCA Forest.
HLoOP detects outliers in hyperbolic 2-space.
Robust PCA, the problem of PCA in the presence of outliers has been extensively investigated in the last few years. Here we focus on Robust PCA in the outlier model where each column of the data matrix is either an inlier or an outlier. Most of the existing methods for this model assumes either the knowledge of the dim…
New outlier detection method using graph Laplacian spectrum boosts performance.
We evaluate how modern outlier detection methods perform in identifying outliers in e-commerce conversion rate data. Based on the limitations identified, we then present a novel method to detect outliers in e-commerce conversion rate. This unsupervised method is made more business relevant by letting it automatically a…
Enhances clustering for functional data, robust to outliers.
A new method detects outliers using ensembles of Dirichlet process mixtures.
Rare data in a large-scale database are called outliers that reveal significant information in the real world. The subspace-based outlier detection is regarded as a feasible approach in very high dimensional space. However, the outliers found in subspaces are only part of the true outliers in high dimensional space, in…
Robust PCA, the problem of PCA in the presence of outliers has been extensively investigated in the last few years. Here we focus on Robust PCA in the column sparse outlier model. The existing methods for column sparse outlier model assumes either the knowledge of the dimension of the lower dimensional subspace or the …
ODIM detects outliers by under-fitting generative models, outperforming other methods.
A novel density-based approach QC detects outliers in data with high precision.
Inference in the presence of outliers is an important field of research as outliers are ubiquitous and may arise across a variety of problems and domains. Bayesian optimization is method that heavily relies on probabilistic inference. This allows outstanding sample efficiency because the probabilistic machinery provide…
Paper tackles outlier detection in multi-armed bandits, achieving high accuracy with reduced exploration costs.
We focus on the problem of unsupervised cell outlier detection and repair in mixed-type tabular data. Traditional methods are concerned only with detecting which rows in the dataset are outliers. However, identifying which cells are corrupted in a specific row is an important problem in practice, and the very first ste…
RelatIF selects more intuitive training examples for explaining model predictions.
PyODDS automates outlier detection for new data sources.
This paper bridges outlier-robust estimation in robotics and computer vision with robust statistics.
Many methods to explain black-box models, whether local or global, are additive. In this paper, we study global additive explanations for non-additive models, focusing on four explanation methods: partial dependence, Shapley explanations adapted to a global setting, distilled additive explanations, and gradient-based e…
A new method detects and corrects outliers using optimal transport.