The essay discusses the usage of unsupervised autoencoders for detecting anomalies in high-dimensional environmental data.
The approach involves training the autoencoder on everyday observations to identify deviations using reconstruction error.
Results demonstrate high precision (~95%) and a strong AUC of 0.90, with lower recall due to a conservative threshold.
The conclusion highlights the effectiveness of autoencoders for learning standard patterns and suggests tuning thresholds or architectural enhancements for improved anomaly sensitivity.