Impact of Inaccurate Contamination Ratio on Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

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Autori principali: Masakuna, Jordan F., Nkashama, DJeff Kanda, Soltani, Arian, Frappier, Marc, Tardif, Pierre-Martin, Kabanza, Froduald
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Masakuna, Jordan F.
Nkashama, DJeff Kanda
Soltani, Arian
Frappier, Marc
Tardif, Pierre-Martin
Kabanza, Froduald
author_facet Masakuna, Jordan F.
Nkashama, DJeff Kanda
Soltani, Arian
Frappier, Marc
Tardif, Pierre-Martin
Kabanza, Froduald
contents Training data sets intended for unsupervised anomaly detection, typically presumed to be anomaly-free, often contain anomalies (or contamination), a challenge that significantly undermines model performance. Most robust unsupervised anomaly detection models rely on contamination ratio information to tackle contamination. However, in reality, contamination ratio may be inaccurate. We investigate on the impact of inaccurate contamination ratio information in robust unsupervised anomaly detection. We verify whether they are resilient to misinformed contamination ratios. Our investigation on 6 benchmark data sets reveals that such models are not adversely affected by exposure to misinformation. In fact, they can exhibit improved performance when provided with such inaccurate contamination ratios.
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spellingShingle Impact of Inaccurate Contamination Ratio on Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Masakuna, Jordan F.
Nkashama, DJeff Kanda
Soltani, Arian
Frappier, Marc
Tardif, Pierre-Martin
Kabanza, Froduald
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Training data sets intended for unsupervised anomaly detection, typically presumed to be anomaly-free, often contain anomalies (or contamination), a challenge that significantly undermines model performance. Most robust unsupervised anomaly detection models rely on contamination ratio information to tackle contamination. However, in reality, contamination ratio may be inaccurate. We investigate on the impact of inaccurate contamination ratio information in robust unsupervised anomaly detection. We verify whether they are resilient to misinformed contamination ratios. Our investigation on 6 benchmark data sets reveals that such models are not adversely affected by exposure to misinformation. In fact, they can exhibit improved performance when provided with such inaccurate contamination ratios.
title Impact of Inaccurate Contamination Ratio on Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07718