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20182026
most citedA Unifying Review of Deep and Shallow Anomaly Detection

897 citations · 1.2k across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

hep-lat2026

Sector-Resolved Flow Sampling for Topologically Frozen Lattice Gauge Theories

Ankur Singha, Jacob Kauffmann, Karl Jansen +3

Topological fluctuations are essential to nonperturbative gauge theories but become increasingly difficult to sample toward the continuum limit, where Markov chains can freeze in s…

cs.LG2026

Reliable Modeling of Distribution Shifts via Displacement-Reshaped Optimal Transport

Philip Naumann, Jacob Kauffmann, Klaus-Robert Müller +1

Optimal transport (OT) is a central framework for modeling distribution shifts. Because OT compares distributions directly in input space, a well-designed ground metric between obs…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Fast and Accurate Explanations of Distance-Based Classifiers by Uncovering Latent Explanatory Structures

Florian Bley, Jacob Kauffmann, Simon León Krug +2

Distance-based classifiers, such as k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines, continue to be a workhorse of machine learning, widely used in science and industry. In practic…

cs.LG2025

Wasserstein Distances Made Explainable: Insights Into Dataset Shifts and Transport Phenomena

Philip Naumann, Jacob Kauffmann, Grégoire Montavon

Wasserstein distances provide a powerful framework for comparing data distributions. They can be used to analyze processes over time or to detect inhomogeneities within data. Howev…

cs.LG2024★ 33 cited

The Clever Hans Effect in Unsupervised Learning

Jacob Kauffmann, Jonas Dippel, Lukas Ruff +3

Unsupervised learning has become an essential building block of AI systems. The representations it produces, e.g. in foundation models, are critical to a wide variety of downstream…

cs.LG2020★ 897 cited

A Unifying Review of Deep and Shallow Anomaly Detection

Lukas Ruff, Jacob R. Kauffmann, Robert A. Vandermeulen +5

Deep learning approaches to anomaly detection have recently improved the state of the art in detection performance on complex datasets such as large collections of images or text.…

cs.LG2020★ 18 cited

The Clever Hans Effect in Anomaly Detection

Jacob Kauffmann, Lukas Ruff, Grégoire Montavon +1

The 'Clever Hans' effect occurs when the learned model produces correct predictions based on the 'wrong' features. This effect which undermines the generalization capability of an…

cs.LG2019★ 113 cited

From Clustering to Cluster Explanations via Neural Networks

Jacob Kauffmann, Malte Esders, Lukas Ruff +3

A recent trend in machine learning has been to enrich learned models with the ability to explain their own predictions. The emerging field of Explainable AI (XAI) has so far mainly…

stat.ML2018

Unsupervised Detection and Explanation of Latent-class Contextual Anomalies

Jacob Kauffmann, Grégoire Montavon, Luiz Alberto Lima +3

Detecting and explaining anomalies is a challenging effort. This holds especially true when data exhibits strong dependencies and single measurements need to be assessed and analyz…

stat.ML2018★ 103 cited

Towards Explaining Anomalies: A Deep Taylor Decomposition of One-Class Models

Jacob Kauffmann, Klaus-Robert Müller, Grégoire Montavon

A common machine learning task is to discriminate between normal and anomalous data points. In practice, it is not always sufficient to reach high accuracy at this task, one also w…