Open eladtann opened 5 years ago
What you mentioned is called novelty detection, slightly different from outlier detection. General outlier detection algorithms assume the existence of outliers, otherwise no prediction may be made. You could read this here (https://pyod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/relevant_knowledge.html)
Notice the last paragraph which states " The algorithms found in PyOD focus on the first two approaches..." the first two are:
and if i understood correctly contamination!=0 means that 2nd approach isn't supported.
thanks
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What you mentioned is called novelty detection, slightly different from outlier detection. General outlier detection algorithms assume the existence of outliers, otherwise no prediction may be made. You could read this here ( https://pyod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/relevant_knowledge.html)
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Hi, let's assume i have training data which i want to define as normal, namely which does not include outliers at all. I would then expect to be able to fit a model to this training data such that the threshold for considering any sample as an outlier would be greater than any of the training samples. But currently the fact that contamination must be greater than 0, prevents this behavior.
Could you please explain the motivation? thanks a lot, Elad