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A robust novelty detection framework based on ensemble learning

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Novelty detection techniques have been used extensively to discover interesting data patterns in practical applications. However, real-world training data are often contaminated by unknown anomalous examples (outliers), leading to deteriorated detectors. In order to alleviate this problem, this paper proposes a robust novelty detection framework based on ensemble learning. In contrast to traditional parallel outlier ensembles based on variance-reduction, both bias and variance are considered in our ensemble framework. Specifically, we aim to reduce the bias induced by unknown outliers with an iterative mechanism. A weighting scheme is used to combine the result of current iteration with the previous iteration. By gradually removing outliers in the training set, performance of the detector can be improved. In addition, base detectors at all iterations will be aggregated by the weighting scheme in order to realize the variance reduction. Moreover, a flexible function that provides reference ground-truth is proposed so that our detection framework can be effective on different types of data sets. We conduct experiments on 15 benchmark data sets to verify the superiority over parallel ensembles and single models. A case study concerning wind tunnel is also carried out on 10 data sets from a real-world wind tunnel system. Experimental results have shown the superiority of our detector over several competitors.

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Notes

  1. In this paper, we make a subtle distinction between outlier detection and novelty detection. In particular, outlier detection indicates mining abnormal patterns existing in the given database, while novelty detection implies the identification of unseen abnormal patterns out of the given database.

  2. Here the term “data description” and “one-class classification” can be used as substitute for each other.

  3. Here we underline the term “unknown outliers” because labeled abnormal data (known outliers) would be beneficial for the constructions of normal patterns oppositely.

  4. In this paper, positive class indicates target class, and negative class means outlier class.

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  1. School of Automation, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang, 110136, China

    Biao Wang

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, Liaoning Vocational College of Ecological Engineering, Shenyang, 110122, China

    Wenjing Wang & Na Wang

  3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Zhizhong Mao

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Wang, B., Wang, W., Wang, N. et al. A robust novelty detection framework based on ensemble learning. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 13, 2891–2908 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-022-01569-9

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