| CPC H04L 63/1425 (2013.01) [G06N 7/01 (2023.01)] | 25 Claims |

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25. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising one or more programs for executing a model of detecting network security anomalies in a network of interconnected devices by use of a variational autoencoder, wherein the model is configured to:
receive device status information from at least a plurality of the devices in the network;
optimize the received device status information by use of the variational autoencoder;
determine or enable a user to determine whether the device status information qualifies as an anomaly that requires a response;
preprocess the device status information prior to optimizing the device status information via an image gradient sobel edge detector; and
return a floating-point edge metric via the image gradient sobel edge detector.
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