Explainable outlier detection through decision tree conditioning

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2001.00636arXiv2001.00636MaRDI QIDQ101258FDOQ101258

Publication date: 2 January 2020

Abstract: This work describes an outlier detection procedure (named "OutlierTree") loosely based on the GritBot software developed by RuleQuest research, which works by evaluating and following supervised decision tree splits on variables, in whose branches 1-d confidence intervals are constructed for the target variable and potential outliers flagged according to these confidence intervals. Under this logic, it's possible to produce human-readable explanations for why a given value of a variable in an observation can be considered as outlier, by considering the decision tree branch conditions along with general distribution statistics among the non-outlier observations that fell into the same branch, which can then be contrasted against the value which lies outside the CI. The supervised splits help to ensure that the generated conditions are not spurious, but rather related to the target variable and having logical breakpoints.

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