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ItemOn the effectiveness of isolation-based anomaly detection in cloud data centers(WILEY, 2017-09-25)Summary The high volume of monitoring information generated by large‐scale cloud infrastructures poses a challenge to the capacity of cloud providers in detecting anomalies in the infrastructure. Traditional anomaly detection methods are resource‐intensive and computationally complex for training and/or detection, what is undesirable in very dynamic and large‐scale environment such as clouds. Isolation‐based methods have the advantage of low complexity for training and detection and are optimized for detecting failures. In this work, we explore the feasibility of Isolation Forest, an isolation‐based anomaly detection method, to detect anomalies in large‐scale cloud data centers. We propose a method to code time‐series information as extra attributes that enable temporal anomaly detection and establish its feasibility to adapt to seasonality and trends in the time‐series and to be applied online and in real‐time.
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ItemDiscovering outlying aspects in large datasets(SPRINGER, 2016-11)
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ItemTraining Robust Models with Random Projection(IEEE, 2016)Regularization plays an important role in machine learning systems. We propose a novel methodology for model regularization using random projection. We demonstrate the technique on neural networks, since such models usually comprise a very large number of parameters, calling for strong regularizers. It has been shown recently that neural networks are sensitive to two kinds of samples: (i) adversarial samples, which are generated by imperceptible perturbations of previously correctly-classified samples - yet the network will misclassify them; and (ii) fooling samples, which are completely unrecognizable, yet the network will classify them with extremely high confidence. In this paper, we show how robust neural networks can be trained using random projection. We show that while random projection acts as a strong regularizer, boosting model accuracy similar to other regularizers, such as weight decay and dropout, it is far more robust to adversarial noise and fooling samples. We further show that random projection also helps to improve the robustness of traditional classifiers, such as Random Forrest and Gradient Boosting Machines.
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ItemCombining real and virtual graphs to enhance data clustering(IEEE, 2010-11-18)
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ItemiVAT and aVAT: Enhanced Visual Analysis for Cluster Tendency Assessment(SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2010)
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ItemEnhanced Visual Analysis for Cluster Tendency Assessment and Data Partitioning(IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2010-10)