Explaining Anomalies with Tensor Networks

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Hauptverfasser: Hohenfeld, Hans, Beuerle, Marius, Mounzer, Elie
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author Hohenfeld, Hans
Beuerle, Marius
Mounzer, Elie
author_facet Hohenfeld, Hans
Beuerle, Marius
Mounzer, Elie
contents Tensor networks, a class of variational quantum many-body wave functions have attracted considerable research interest across many disciplines, including classical machine learning. Recently, Aizpurua et al. demonstrated explainable anomaly detection with matrix product states on a discrete-valued cyber-security task, using quantum-inspired methods to gain insight into the learned model and detected anomalies. Here, we extend this framework to real-valued data domains. We furthermore introduce tree tensor networks for the task of explainable anomaly detection. We demonstrate these methods with three benchmark problems, show adequate predictive performance compared to several baseline models and both tensor network architectures' ability to explain anomalous samples. We thereby extend the application of tensor networks to a broader class of potential problems and open a pathway for future extensions to more complex tensor network architectures.
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spellingShingle Explaining Anomalies with Tensor Networks
Hohenfeld, Hans
Beuerle, Marius
Mounzer, Elie
Machine Learning
Quantum Physics
Tensor networks, a class of variational quantum many-body wave functions have attracted considerable research interest across many disciplines, including classical machine learning. Recently, Aizpurua et al. demonstrated explainable anomaly detection with matrix product states on a discrete-valued cyber-security task, using quantum-inspired methods to gain insight into the learned model and detected anomalies. Here, we extend this framework to real-valued data domains. We furthermore introduce tree tensor networks for the task of explainable anomaly detection. We demonstrate these methods with three benchmark problems, show adequate predictive performance compared to several baseline models and both tensor network architectures' ability to explain anomalous samples. We thereby extend the application of tensor networks to a broader class of potential problems and open a pathway for future extensions to more complex tensor network architectures.
title Explaining Anomalies with Tensor Networks
topic Machine Learning
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03911