Unsupervised Surrogate Anomaly Detection
It addresses anomaly detection for data analysis, but appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts with a new algorithm.
The paper tackles unsupervised anomaly detection by formalizing surrogate anomaly detection with axioms and proposing the DEAN algorithm, which shows competitive performance on 121 benchmark datasets against 19 existing methods.
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.