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Novelty detection is the task of classifying test data that differ in some respect from the data that are available during training. This may be seen as “one-class classification”, in which a model is constructed to describe “normal” training data. The novelty detection approach is typically used when the quantity of available “abnormal” data is insufficient to construct explicit models for non-normal classes. An application includes inference in datasets from critical systems, where the quantity of available normal data is huge, such that “normality” may be accurately modeled.