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Fixing Bias in Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection w Lipschitz Discriminators (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Common detectors flag anything a compression network rebuilds badly, but that skews toward outliers and easy points. A new detector instead learns to tell real data from deliberately corrupted copies, catching anomalies with guarantees and beating the usual approach on images and health records.

Abstract · Fixing Bias in Reconstruction-based Anomaly Detection with Lipschitz Discriminators

Anomaly detection is of great interest in fields where abnormalities need to be identified and corrected (e.g., medicine and finance). Deep learning methods for this task often rely on autoencoder reconstruction error, sometimes in conjunction with other errors. We show that this approach exhibits intrinsic biases that lead to undesirable results. Reconstruction-based methods are sensitive to training-data outliers and simple-to-reconstruct points. Instead, we introduce a new unsupervised Lipschitz anomaly discriminator that does not suffer from these biases. Our anomaly discriminator is trained, similar to the ones used in GANs, to detect the difference between the training data and corruptions of the training data. We show that this procedure successfully detects unseen anomalies with guarantees on those that have a certain Wasserstein distance from the data or corrupted training set. These additions allow us to show improved performance on MNIST, CIFAR10, and health record data.

Alexander Tong, Guy Wolf, Smita Krishnaswamy
arXiv:1905.10710 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CV, stat.ML · submitted May 26, 2019 · updated Jul 26, 2020
abstract · pdf · html · 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, presented at IEEE MLSP

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