A filter that applies the LOF (Local Outlier Factor) algorithm to compute an outlier score for each instance in the data. Can use multiple cores/cpus to speed up the LOF computation for large datasets. Nearest neighbor search methods and distance functions are pluggable.
For more information, see:
Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng, Jorg Sander (2000). LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers. ACM SIGMOD Record. 29(2):93-104.