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Rethinking Weak Supervision in Anomaly Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmark

arXiv:2605. 26068v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly supervised anomaly detection (WSAD) has developed in three primary directions: incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

Differentiable Interval Bottlenecks for Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Numerical Data

DIFFINT is a reconstruction‑based anomaly detector that uses a differentiable autoencoder with a latent bottleneck composed of soft, axis‑aligned interval memberships. Each latent unit represents a human‑readable hyper‑rectangle in feature space, allowing the model to encode how strongly an instance falls inside each interval and to compute reconstruction error as the anomaly score. The method provides a certified lower bound on reconstruction error for points outside all active intervals, a suppression mechanism for sparse abnormalities, and a closed‑form, label‑free importance ranking for each (unit, feature) pair, achieving top performance on 48 ADBench benchmarks against 22 baselines.

By Lamine Diop, Marc Plantevit
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

We Need to Rethink Benchmarking in Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2507. 15584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the continuous proposal of new anomaly detection algorithms and extensive benchmarking efforts, progress seems to stagnate, with only minor performance differences between established baselines and new algorithms.

By Philipp R\"ochner, Simon Kl\"uttermann, Kevin Kammler, Franz Rothlauf, Emmanuel M\"uller, Daniel Schl\"or
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Differentiable Interval Bottlenecks for Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Numerical Data

DIFFINT is a reconstruction‑based anomaly detector that replaces the opaque latent bottleneck of a standard autoencoder with a set of soft, axis‑aligned interval memberships learned directly from raw numerical data. Each latent unit represents a human‑readable hyper‑rectangle, and an instance’s anomaly score is its reconstruction error weighted by how strongly it falls inside these intervals. The method provides a certified lower bound on reconstruction error for points outside all active intervals, a graded suppression mechanism for sparse anomalies, and a closed‑form, label‑free importance ranking for each (unit, feature) pair, achieving top performance on 48 ADBench benchmarks against 22 baselines. whyItMatters":"DIFFINT offers the first interpretable anomaly detector that maintains competitive performance while revealing which feature ranges drive each anomaly score, enabling practitioners to audit and understand model decisions without requiring anomaly labels."

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 Machine Learning
Jul 21

AOE: Exhaustive Out-of-Distribution Detection via Recalibrating Outlier Labels

arXiv:2605. 28021v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for deploying machine learning models in open-world and safety-critical scenarios, where test inputs may deviate from the training distribution and overconfident predictions on unknown samples can lead to unreliable decisions.

By Fengqiang Wan, Qing-Yuan Jiang, Fu Shen, Yang Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Deep Positive-Unlabeled Anomaly Detection for Contaminated Unlabeled Data

The paper introduces a deep positive‑unlabeled anomaly detection framework that combines positive‑unlabeled learning with deep models such as autoencoders and deep support vector data descriptions. It addresses the issue of contaminated unlabeled data by approximating anomaly scores for normal data using both unlabeled and labeled anomaly samples, allowing training without labeled normal data. The authors provide a theoretical generalization error bound and demonstrate improved detection performance over existing methods on several datasets.

By Hiroshi Takahashi, Tomoharu Iwata, Atsutoshi Kumagai, Yuuki Yamanaka