Summary of Directional Anomaly Detection, by Oliver Urs Lenz et al.
Directional anomaly detection
by Oliver Urs Lenz, Matthijs van Leeuwen
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes two new distance measures for semi-supervised anomaly detection: ramp distance and signed distance. These measures take into account directionality in attribute values, allowing them to capture anomalies that correspond to high or low values separately. The authors compare these measures to the traditional absolute distance method on synthetic and real-life datasets. While both new methods perform well on synthetic data, only ramp distance maintains its performance on real-life datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers find unusual patterns in data by creating new ways to measure how different an example is from normal examples. Sometimes we want to find unusual patterns that have very high or low values on certain attributes, not just ones that are very different overall. The researchers tested two new methods, ramp distance and signed distance, to see if they work better than the usual way of measuring difference. On fake data, both new methods did well. But when they used real-life data, only one method kept performing well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Semi supervised » Synthetic data
