arXiv Machine Learning

Rethinking Continual Anomaly Detection on the Edge: Benchmarking Under Realistic Industrial Conditions

arXiv:2605. 24251v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual anomaly detection (CAD) addresses the need for industrial inspection systems to adapt to evolving production conditions, yet existing methods share three critical gaps: unrealistic evaluation, no systematic comparison, and no consideration of edge deployment constraints.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

LiZAD: A Lightweight Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection Framework for Industrial Manufacturing

In modern high-throughput industrial production lines, product configurations and visual characteristics frequently change, making it impractical to collect and annotate data for every new scenario. This dynamic setting makes Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) particularly suitable, as it enables defect detection without requiring training on target-specific samples.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Neural-Collapse-guided Task-Free Continual Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces NC‑TFAD, a task‑free continual anomaly detection framework that leverages neural‑collapse geometry to learn from non‑stationary data streams without task boundaries. It freezes a pretrained backbone, aligns streaming features to a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame prototype space, and uses synthetic anomaly anchors, inter‑ and intra‑class regularization, and a Focal Neural Collapse Contrastive loss to stabilize representations and enhance normal‑anomaly separability. A normal‑patch‑prototype‑guided localization branch generates calibrated anomaly heatmaps, and extensive experiments on MVTec AD and VisA demonstrate that NC‑TFAD outperforms existing task‑free continual learning and unified anomaly detection baselines in both image‑level detection and pixel‑level localization.

By Xiaotong Kong, Chaoyang Song, Ziai Zhou, Jinxia Zhang, Kanjian Zhang, Haikun Wei
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Neural-Collapse-guided Task-Free Continual Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces NC‑TFAD, a task‑free continual anomaly detection framework that leverages neural‑collapse geometry to handle non‑stationary data streams in industrial visual inspection. It freezes a pretrained backbone, aligns streaming features to a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame prototype space, and uses synthetic anomaly anchors, inter‑ and intra‑class regularization, and a Focal Neural Collapse Contrastive loss to stabilize representations and enhance normal‑anomaly separability. A normal‑patch‑prototype‑guided localization branch generates calibrated anomaly heatmaps without pixel‑level annotations, and experiments on MVTec AD and VisA demonstrate that NC‑TFAD outperforms existing task‑free continual learning and unified anomaly detection baselines in both image‑level detection and pixel‑level localization.

arXiv AI
4d ago

MAADBench: The Refreshable Paradigm for Anomaly Detection in Multi-Agent Systems

MAADBench is a refreshable benchmark for anomaly detection in multi‑agent systems powered by large language models. It addresses the challenge of keeping benchmarks current by sampling and coupling generative tasks, generating trace data under configurable LLM backbones, and automatically providing deterministic step‑level labels. The authors evaluated 25 anomaly‑detection methods on 5,200 labeled traces, finding that existing approaches depend heavily on supervision, struggle with subtle MAS‑specific anomalies, and lack robustness across different LLM backbones.

By Lei Ma, Dennis Hofmann, Haowen Xu, Joshua DeOliveira, Peter VanNostrand, Lei Cao, Elke Rundensteiner
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

LUMIN: Lightweight Universal Manufacturing Inspection Network for Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces LUMIN, a lightweight network for manufacturing anomaly detection, and PSP, a four‑stage adaptive memory bank sampling pipeline that eliminates backbone forward passes. PSP achieves near‑random construction speed, 341× faster than FPS, while parallel similarity computation and stratified pixel sampling cut inference time by 20× with minimal accuracy loss. Experiments on five benchmarks show that LUMIN and PSP reach state‑of‑the‑art sampling accuracy with dramatically reduced latency and memory usage.

By Pengfei Yang