Anomaly Detection

An Anomaly is by definition something that is outside the norm or what is expected. For data this can mean rare individual outliers or distinct clusters. Anomaly detection is an important capability with broad applicability in many domains such as medical diagnostics or in detection of intrusions, fraud, or false information. All three categories of model training are used for anomalous data; supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised. Typically the first go-to methods are statistical and classical machine learning techniques.