Collaborative Novelty Detection for Distributed Data by a Probabilistic Method

Akira Imakura (University of Tsukuba)*; Xiucai Ye (University of Tsukuba); Tetsuya Sakurai (University of Tsukuba)

Abstract

Novelty detection, which detects anomalies based on a training dataset consisting of only the normal data, is an important task in several applications. In addition, in the real world, there may be situations where data is owned by multiple parties in a distributed manner but cannot be shared with each other due to privacy and confidentiality requirements. Therefore, how to develop distributed novelty detection while preserving privacy is essential. To address this challenge, we propose a probabilistic collaborative method that allows distributed novelty detection for multiple parties without sharing the original data. The proposed method constructs a collaborative kernel based on a collaborative data analysis framework, by which intermediate representations are generated from each party and shared for collaborative novelty detection. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method obtains better performance compared with the individual novelty detection in the local party.