The paper investigates whether the performance of anomaly detection systems can be predicted without labeled anomalies. For kNN-based detectors, it derives a lower bound on AUC that links detection performance to the separation and variance of inlier and outlier scores, and uses this to analyze how density variation, intrinsic dimensionality, and domain mismatch affect score variability. The authors introduce pseudo‑anomaly probes that provide a reference for estimating relative score separation, and demonstrate through experiments on DCASE benchmarks that these probes enable anomaly‑free model selection to outperform conventional development‑set selection, especially under domain shift.
By Kevin Wilkinghoff, Zheng-Hua Tan
The paper introduces a training‑free anomaly detector that simultaneously handles structural and logical defects by calibrating heterogeneous anomaly cues with statistics from normal images. This calibration aligns frozen representations, allowing their fusion without extra training or part‑level supervision. The resulting method achieves state‑of‑the‑art AUROC scores on MVTec‑LOCO and remains competitive on MVTec‑AD.
By Changyi Li, Miao Yu, Kai Dong, Yu Xiao
arXiv:2607. 23924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models have enabled strong training-free anomaly detection (AD).
By Jyun-Ze Tang, Po-Han Huang, Ming-Ching Chang, Chih-Fan Hsu, Jeng-Lin Li
arXiv:2607. 22212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual anomaly detection requires adaptive representations and reliable decision boundaries, particularly when anomalous training samples are scarce and class distributions are highly imbalanced.
By Alireza Dastmalchi Saei, Shervin Rahimzadeh Arashloo
arXiv:2606. 09670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Anomaly Detection methods achieve perfect detection and segmentation scores on well-established datasets, such as MVTec.
By Mateo Diaz-Bone, Daniel Caraballo, Florian Scheidegger, Thomas Frick, Mattia Rigotti, Andrea Bartezzaghi, Roy Assaf, Niccolo Avogaro, Yagmur G. Cinar, Brown Ebouky, Filip M. Janicki, Piotr S. Kluska, Cezary Skura, Cristiano Malossi
Vision foundation models have enabled strong training-free anomaly detection (AD). However, most existing approaches rely primarily on independent local patch features, leaving the global contextual information encoded by Vision Transformers (ViTs) underexploited.
The paper introduces DPA, a diffusion-based framework that decouples product-agnostic anomaly representations to enable zero-shot anomaly generation. By reusing real anomalies from existing source products and filtering them for plausibility, DPA learns product-irrelevant anomaly embeddings that can be transferred across products. An adaptive mask-guided pipeline and a training-free labeling module further refine the realism and localization of generated anomalies, leading to improved performance on MVTec-AD, VisA, and a new anomaly-transfer benchmark.
By Hang Yao, Yansheng Fu, Ming Liu, Zifei Yan, Yanli Ji, Hongzhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv:2608.23295v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memory-based anomaly detectors store nominal training patches and score test patches against this memory. A patch selected for coverage therefore becom...
By Joongwon Chae, Runming Wang, Peiwu Qin
Recent Anomaly Detection methods achieve perfect detection and segmentation scores on well-established datasets, such as MVTec. However, many of these methods face challenges when foundational assumptions - such as consistent object scale, viewpoint, background, illumination, and centered placement - are violated.
arXiv:2512. 22179v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Detecting previously unseen attacks remains a major challenge for machine learning-based intrusion detection systems.
By Rajeeb Thapa Chhetri, Saurab Thapa, Avinash Kumar, Zhixiong Chen
The paper introduces Interpretable Multi-Hypersphere Deep Anomaly Detection (IMHD-AD), a method that builds a separate hypersphere for each known normal class in a shared feature space. By embedding class-specific centers and radii into the final network layer and applying target-inside/non-target-outside constraints, IMHD-AD jointly optimizes these parameters with the shared representation. The model uses the minimum signed boundary score across hyperspheres to decide open-set acceptance or rejection, offering a geometric explanation for each decision, and demonstrates superior AUC performance on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and CIFAR-10 compared to existing methods.
By Zhiji Yang, Fangyong Wang, Yue Li, Xianli Pan, Jianhua Zhao
arXiv:2610.07016v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In few-shot industrial anomaly detection, the few normal target images provide no direct defect supervision, making anomaly prompts difficult to lear...
By Mengyang Zhao, Teng Fu, Haiyang Yu, Ke Niu, Bin Li, Xiangyang Xue