Machine Learning

Why Outlier Detection is Hard

Considerations for Anomaly Detection Machine Learning Tasks

Alexandra Amidon
Towards AI
Published in
4 min readMay 14, 2021

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Outlier detection is a machine learning task that aims to identify rare items, events, or observations that deviate from the “norm” or general distribution of the given data.

An anomaly is something that arouses

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