Questions tagged [isolation-forest]
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How to Tune Isolation Forest?
Many online blogs talk about using Isolation Forest for anomaly detection. But I got a very poor result. The data used is house prices data from Kaggle. I used IForest and KNN from pyod to identify 1% ...
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Anomaly/Outlier Detection for Arbitrary Shaped Data?
The following plots use the data from Kaggle's House Prices competition. SalePrice is the target variable. I want to find a method to identify outliers (as shown in red in plot 3 & 4) ...
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isolation forest erratic behaviour
I have gotten a dataset that has continuous values which are normalized in the range from 0 to 1, is it approximately 200 records with 14 features, and like 30 percent of the data present there are ...
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Evaluation method for outlier detection with a data that has no labels
I am applying an unsupervised outlier detection model called isolation-Forest to detect outliers using unlabelled time-series data. I do not have labels that distinguish a true outlier from a false ...
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Anomaly Detection over multivariate categorical and numerical predictors
I am trying to implement Anomaly Detection over a multivariate dataset having categorical and numerical predictors.
If we consider the below sample records, product_type, company_type and currency are ...
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Can you use the isolation forest algorithm on large sample sizes?
The original isolation forest paper states that the algorithm works best on small subsamples, but is it okay to use it on large sample sizes or are other anomaly detection algorithms better?
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Can you use the isolation forest algorithm on a large sample size?
I've been using the scikit learn sklearn.ensemble.IsolationForest implementation of the isolation forest to detect anomalies in my datasets that range from 100s of ...
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Separating anomalys using Isolation Forest, Is my approach correct?
I am a fairly new guy to ML and I am having some trouble choosing a algorithm to the job for me. My data set consists physical measurements where part of the samples were contaminated. In this case, ...
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Identify the parameter causing the anomaly in a multivariate dataset
I have a payment transaction dataset with a large number of predictor variables. I am trying to build a model for anomaly detection and I have evaluated various algorithms/approaches for the same like ...
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Meaning Of The Terms In Isolation Forest Anomaly Scoring
In an isolation forest the anomaly score of a point is given by:
$$2^{\frac{-E(h(x))}{c(m)}}$$
Now supposedly c(m) is the average length to termination in the search tree. And, E(h(x)) is the ...
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Discordance between various methods of multivariate outliers detection
Here is a small "toy example" dataset, with 15 individuals described by 6 variables (this is R language):
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Oversampling/Undersampling in respect to Train and Test - Isolation Forest
I've got a quite imbalanced data set.
144.496 : 162 -> ratio of 1000:1
I would like to use IsolationForest to detect the 162 anomalys.
I've already split the data.
However, the iForest doesn't ...
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Isolation forest with categorical data?
I understand how isolation forests can work with numeric data, but I wonder how it can work with categorical data?
Also, at least when working with Sci-kit-Learn, the recommendation I saw was to ...
