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Semi-supervised outlier detection

  • Michigan State University

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Abstract

Outlier detection has been extensively researched in the context of unsupervised learning. But the learning results are not always satisfactory, which can be significantly improved using supervision of some labeled points. In this paper, we are concerned with employing supervision of limited amount of label information to detect outliers more accurately. The key of our approach is an objective function that punishes poor clustering results and deviation from known labels as well as restricts the number of outliers. The outliers can be found as a solution to the discrete optimization problem regarding the objective function. By this way, this method can detect meaningful outliers that can not be identified by existing unsupervised methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Computing 2006 - The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages635-636
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)1595931082, 9781595931085
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Dijon, France
Duration: Apr 23 2006Apr 27 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Volume1

Conference

Conference2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityDijon
Period04/23/0604/27/06

Keywords

  • Outlier detection
  • Semi-supervised learning

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