Summary of Spinex: Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration For Anomaly and Outlier Detection, by Mz Naser et al.
SPINEX: Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration for Anomaly and Outlier Detection
by MZ Naser, Ahmed Z Naser
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jul 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 A novel anomaly and outlier detection algorithm from the SPINEX family is introduced in this paper. The algorithm leverages similarity and higher-order interactions across multiple subspaces to identify outliers. It’s evaluated against 21 commonly used algorithms, including Angle-Based Outlier Detection (ABOD), Isolation Forest (IF), and One-Class SVM (OCSVM). The performance of SPINEX is tested on 39 synthetic and real datasets from various domains, with results showing superior performance and moderate complexity (O(n log n d)). This paper also explores the explainability capabilities of SPINEX and identifies future research needs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to find things that don’t fit in when looking at data. It’s like finding a weird rock on the beach, but instead it’s for detecting weird data points. The new method is called SPINEX and it works by looking at how similar things are to each other. This helps it find things that stand out from the rest. The paper compares this new method to 21 others and shows that it does a great job finding weird data points. It even tries it on real-life data sets, like pictures of people or measurements of the weather. The results show that SPINEX is really good at its job and could be useful in lots of different areas. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Outlier detection
