An embedding approach to anomaly detection

  • Renjun Hu
  • , Charu C. Aggarwal
  • , Shuai Ma*
  • , Jinpeng Huai
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Network anomaly detection has become very popular in recent years because of the importance of discovering key regions of structural inconsistency in the network. In addition to application-specific information carried by anomalies, the presence of such structural inconsistency is often an impediment to the effective application of data mining algorithms such as community detection and classification. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting structurally inconsistent nodes that connect to a number of diverse influential communities in large social networks. We show that the use of a network embedding approach, together with a novel dimension reduction technique, is an effective tool to discover such structural inconsistencies. We also experimentally show that the detection of such anomalous nodes has significant applications: one is the specific use of detected anomalies, and the other is the improvement of the effectiveness of community detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages385-396
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781509020195
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Jun 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 16 May 201620 May 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period16/05/1620/05/16

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