Robust mixtures in the presence of measurement errors

Authors:
Jianyong Sun;Ata Kabán;Somak Raychaudhury
Affiliations:
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We develop a mixture-based approach to robust density modeling and outlier detection for experimental multivariate data that includes measurement error information. Our model is designed to infer atypical measurements that are not due to errors, aiming to retrieve potentially interesting peculiar objects. Since exact inference is not possible in this model, we develop a tree-structured variational EM solution. This compares favorably against a fully factorial approximation scheme, approaching the accuracy of a Markov-Chain-EM, while maintaining computational simplicity. We demonstrate the benefits of including measurement errors in the model, in terms of improved outlier detection rates in varying measurement uncertainty conditions. We then use this approach for detecting peculiar quasars from an astrophysical survey, given photometric measurements with errors.