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ANOMALY DETECTION USING SHALLOW RELU NEURAL NETWORKS

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Hector Blake Hatrick *
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Zhou, Ding-Xuan
DOI:10.3934/cpaa.2026052delete
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Anomaly detection is an important task in many domains, and involves the identification of observations that deviate from normal data. Recent work has established theoretical results for deep ReLU neural networks under smoothness and noise assumptions, yet these results rely on extreme sparsity constraints that limit their practical use. In this work, we introduce shallow ReLU neural networks for unsupervised anomaly detection that retain the same theoretical guarantees. Under the Tsybakov noise condition and Ho & uml;lder smoothness of the underlying density, we prove that the empirical hinge risk minimiser consistently estimates the optimal Bayes classifier with an excess risk that vanishes as the sample size increases. These findings indicate that shallow ReLU neural network architectures can be a theoretically justified and computationally efficient alternative to deep neural network models for density level set based anomaly detection.
Keywords:
Anomaly detection
neural networks
regression
rates of convergence
noise condition

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COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED ANALYSIS
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university of sydney
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