Is there any possbility that a ordinary supervised model performs better than a outlier algorithm in this task?
Author: Minqi824Created Jul 13, 2020Updated Jul 16, 2020
I have tried some outlier detection datasets (ODDs) in this website like Annthyroid dataset (http://odds.cs.stonybrook.edu/annthyroid-dataset/).
However, when I compare some ordinary supervised models (e.g., SVM and Random Forest), the results indicate that SVM and RF are much better than the anomaly detection algorithms like OC-SVM and Isolation Forest.
I was wonder the reason for this weird results, because threoratically the outlier detection algorithms should perform better in the outlier detection task. Could anyone help me figure this problem? Thanks!
Source: yzhao062/anomaly-detection-resources