Machine learning

Isolation Forest

Isolation Forest is an unsupervised machine-learning method for anomaly and outlier detection, introduced by Liu, Ting and Zhou in 2008, that isolates anomalies through random partitioning of the data. It works without any labelled anomaly data and scales to high-dimensional datasets.

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Sources

  1. Liu, F.T., Ting, K.M. & Zhou, Z.-H. (2008). Isolation Forest. IEEE ICDM, 413–422. DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2008.17

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ScholarGateIsolation Forest (Isolation Forest (Anomaly Detection via Random Partitioning)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/machine-learning/isolation-forest