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Unsupervised Surrogate Anomaly Detection

Published: April 29, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.20733v1

By: Simon Klüttermann, Tim Katzke, Emmanuel Müller

Potential Business Impact:

Finds weird things in data.

Business Areas:
Predictive Analytics Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

In this paper, we study unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms that learn a neural network representation, i.e. regular patterns of normal data, which anomalies are deviating from. Inspired by a similar concept in engineering, we refer to our methodology as surrogate anomaly detection. We formalize the concept of surrogate anomaly detection into a set of axioms required for optimal surrogate models and propose a new algorithm, named DEAN (Deep Ensemble ANomaly detection), designed to fulfill these criteria. We evaluate DEAN on 121 benchmark datasets, demonstrating its competitive performance against 19 existing methods, as well as the scalability and reliability of our method.

Country of Origin
🇩🇪 Germany

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
35 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)