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Oddballness: universal anomaly detection with language models
Graliński, Filip, Staruch, Ryszard, Jurkiewicz, Krzysztof
We present a new method to detect anomalies in texts (in general: in sequences of any data), using language models, in a totally unsupervised manner. The method considers probabilities (likelihoods) generated by a language model, but instead of focusing on low-likelihood tokens, it considers a new metric introduced in this paper: oddballness. Oddballness measures how ``strange'' a given token is according to the language model. We demonstrate in grammatical error detection tasks (a specific case of text anomaly detection) that oddballness is better than just considering low-likelihood events, if a totally unsupervised setup is assumed.
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