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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Année : 2017

A Semi-Supervised Approach to the Detection and Characterization of Outliers in Categorical Data

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In this paper we introduce a new approach of semi-supervised anomaly detection that deals with categorical data. Given a training set of instances (all belonging to the normal class), we analyze the relationships among features for the extraction of a discriminative characterization of the anomalous instances. Our key idea is to build a model characterizing the features of the normal instances and then use a set of distance-based techniques for the discrimination between the normal and the anomalous instances. We compare our approach with the state-of-the-art methods for semi-supervised anomaly detection. We empirically show that a specifically designed technique for the management of the categorical data outperforms the general-purpose approaches. We also show that, in contrast with other approaches that are opaque because their decision cannot be easily understood, our proposal produces a discriminative model that can be easily interpreted and used for the exploration of the data.
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lirmm-01275509 , version 1 (17-02-2016)

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Dino Ienco, Ruggero Pensa, Rosa Meo. A Semi-Supervised Approach to the Detection and Characterization of Outliers in Categorical Data. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2017, 28 (5), pp.1017-1029. ⟨10.1109/TNNLS.2016.2526063⟩. ⟨lirmm-01275509⟩
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