A Model-Agnostic Framework for Fast Spatial Anomaly Detection

  • Authors:
  • Mingxi Wu;Chris Jermaine;Sanjay Ranka;Xiuyao Song;John Gums

  • Affiliations:
  • Oracle Corporation;Rice University;University of Florida;Yahoo! Inc;University of Florida

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Given a spatial dataset placed on an n ×n grid, our goal is to find the rectangular regions within which subsets of the dataset exhibit anomalous behavior. We develop algorithms that, given any user-supplied arbitrary likelihood function, conduct a likelihood ratio hypothesis test (LRT) over each rectangular region in the grid, rank all of the rectangles based on the computed LRT statistics, and return the top few most interesting rectangles. To speed this process, we develop methods to prune rectangles without computing their associated LRT statistics.