Incorporating User Feedback Into One-Class Support Vector Machines for Anomaly Detection

Abstract

Machine learning and data-driven algorithms have gained a growth of interest during the past decades due to the computation capability of the computers which has increased and the quantity of data available in various domains. One possible application of machine learning is to perform unsupervised anomaly detection. Indeed, among all available data, the anomalies are supposed to be very sparse and the expert might not have the time to label all the data as nominal or not. Many solutions exist to this unsupervised problem, but are known to provide many false alarms, because some scarce nominal modes might not be included in the training dataset and thus will be detected as anomalies. To tackle this issue, we propose to present an existing iterative algorithm, which presents potential anomaly to the expert at each iteration, and compute a new boundary according to this feedback using One Class Support Vector Machine.