Incremental one-class learning with bounded computational complexity

  • Authors:
  • Rowland R. Sillito;Robert B. Fisher

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK;School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'07 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Artificial neural networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An incremental one-class learning algorithm is proposed for the purpose of outlier detection. Outliers are identified by estimating - and thresholding - the probability distribution of the training data. In the early stages of training a non-parametric estimate of the training data distribution is obtained using kernel density estimation. Once the number of training examples reaches the maximum computationally feasible limit for kernel density estimation, we treat the kernel density estimate as a maximally-complex Gaussian mixture model, and keep the model complexity constant bymerging a pair of components for each newkernel added. This method is shown to outperform a current state-of-the-art incremental one-class learning algorithm (Incremental SVDD [5]) on a variety of datasets, while requiring only an upper limit on model complexity to be specified.