articleIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringApr 25, 2023Closed access

Deep Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection

National University of Defense Technology · Singapore Management University

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Abstract

Isolation forest (iForest) has been emerging as arguably the most popular anomaly detector in recent years due to its general effectiveness across different benchmarks and strong scalability. Nevertheless, its linear axis-parallel isolation method often leads to (i) failure in detecting hard anomalies that are difficult to isolate in high-dimensional/non-linear-separable data space, and (ii) notorious algorithmic bias that assigns unexpectedly lower anomaly scores to artefact regions. These issues contribute to high false negative errors. Several iForest extensions are introduced, but they essentially still employ shallow, linear data partition, restricting their power in isolating true anomalies. Therefore,…

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  • Computer science
  • Partition (number theory)
  • Anomaly detection
  • Scalability
  • Linear subspace
  • Theoretical computer science
  • Data mining
  • Algorithm
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