| abstract |
Approaches herein relate to reconstructive models such as an autoencoder for anomaly detection. Herein are machine learning techniques that measure inference confidence based on reconstruction error trends. In an embodiment, a computer hosts a reconstructive model that encodes and decodes features. Based on that decoding, the following are automatically calculated: a respective reconstruction error of each feature, a respective moving average of reconstruction errors of each feature, an average of the moving averages of the reconstruction errors of all features, a standard deviation of the moving averages of the reconstruction errors of all features, and a confidence of decoding the features that is based on a ratio of the average of the moving averages of the reconstruction errors to the standard deviation of the moving averages of the reconstruction errors. The computer detects and indicates that a threshold exceeds the confidence of decoding, which may cause important automatic reactions herein. |