VMware, Inc.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANOMALY DETECTION USING WEIGHTED AUTOENCODER

Abstract:

Apparatus and method to detect anomalies in observations use a first plurality of observations regarding operation of a computing system, which are binned based on features values of the observations. Based on the binning, a weighting score is determined for the observations, which is applied to a loss function of an autoencoder. A second plurality of observations is then applied to the autoencoder as input to determine a reconstruction error value for each observation of the second plurality of observations. The reconstruction error values are used to detect anomalous observations of the second plurality of observations.