arXiv:2604. 06435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a critical task for many applications including industrial inspection and healthcare.
By Manuel Barusco, Francesco Borsatti, David Petrovic, Davide Dalle Pezze, Gian Antonio Susto
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:2608. 15277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Greedy sampling produces a compact yet representative summary of normal data, which is essential for reliable anomaly detection that relies on measuring distance from normality.
By Yoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Seongdeok Bang, Octavia Camps
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
arXiv:2607. 18289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual anomaly detection (CAD) studies how models can adapt to evolving data distributions while retaining performance on previously observed regimes.
By Kamil Faber, Mateusz Smendowski, Roberto Corizzo
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:2607. 12599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection is increasingly important in IoT systems, sensor networks, and edge monitoring applications, where models must operate under strict constraints on memory, latency, and power consumption.
By Raheen Junaid Wani, Smruti R. Sarangi
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:2606. 11844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual anomaly detection in tabular data is challenging and remains largely underexplored, particularly in settings with heterogeneous feature schemas, distribution shifts, and severe class imbalance.
By Dayananda Herurkar, Federico Raue, Joachim Folz, J\"orn Hees, Andreas Dengel
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
arXiv:2603. 10926v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automotive anomaly detectors are often selected from accuracy only benchmarks on workstation class hardware, whereas in-vehicle monitoring requires predictable scoring latency under limited CPU parallelism.
By Kadir-Kaan \"Ozer, Ren\'e Ebeling, Markus Enzweiler
arXiv:2509. 18751v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently reconstruction-based deep models have been widely used for time series anomaly detection, but as their capacity and generalization capability increase, these models tend to over-generalize, often reconstructing unseen anomalies accurately.
By Samuel Yoon, Jongwon Kim, Juyoung Ha, Young Myoung Ko