Active Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Processes
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DOI10.1109/TIT.2018.2866257zbMATH Open1431.94031arXiv1704.00766MaRDI QIDQ5223932FDOQ5223932
Authors: Boshuang Huang, Kobi Cohen, Qing Zhao 
Publication date: 19 July 2019
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: An active inference problem of detecting anomalies among heterogeneous processes is considered. At each time, a subset of processes can be probed. The objective is to design a sequential probing strategy that dynamically determines which processes to observe at each time and when to terminate the search so that the expected detection time is minimized under a constraint on the probability of misclassifying any process. This problem falls into the general setting of sequential design of experiments pioneered by Chernoff in 1959, in which a randomized strategy, referred to as the Chernoff test, was proposed and shown to be asymptotically optimal as the error probability approaches zero. For the problem considered in this paper, a low-complexity deterministic test is shown to enjoy the same asymptotic optimality while offering significantly better performance in the finite regime and faster convergence to the optimal rate function, especially when the number of processes is large. The computational complexity of the proposed test is also of a significantly lower order.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00766
Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13) Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)
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