2013.ICDM.Explaining outliers by subspace separability

main idea

explain a given anomaly by identifying the subspace of features that best separates that outlier from the rest of the dataset.
The outlier detection problem is converted into a two-class classification problem. Then, to find the most suitable subspace, the authors employ a feature selection method.

method

find a explanatory subspace for an outlier p

converted into a two-class classification problem

feature selection