Anomaly detection based on weighted fuzzy-rough density

• Published in: Applied soft computing Vol. 134; p. 109995
• Main Authors: Yuan, Zhong, Chen, Baiyang, Liu, Jia, Chen, Hongmei, Peng, Dezhong, Li, Peilin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.02.2023
• Subjects: Anomaly detection; Fuzzy rough set theory; Granular computing; Mixed data; Weighted density; Fuzzy rough set theory; Weighted density; Granular computing; Anomaly detection; Mixed data
• ISSN: 1568-4946
• DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2023.109995

The density-based method is a more widely used anomaly detection. However, most of the existing density-based methods mainly focus on dealing with certainty data and do not consider the problem of uncertainty and fuzziness of the data. Fuzzy rough set theory, as an important mathematical model of granular computing, provides an effective method for information processing of uncertain data. For this reason, this paper proposes an anomaly detection based on fuzzy-rough density. First, the fuzzy-rough density is defined to describe the degree of aggregation of objects. Then, fuzzy entropy is introduced to compute the weights of each attribute. Further, an anomaly score is constructed to characterize the anomaly degree of the samples, which takes into account both the density and fuzziness of the samples. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted on publicly available data with nine popular detection methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance on three types of datasets. •Fuzzy-rough density is defined to describe the degree of aggregation of objects.•Fuzzy entropy is introduced to compute the weights of each attribute.•The weighted fuzzy-rough density-based anomaly score is constructed.