arXiv Machine Learning

Dimension-Calibrated Unexplained Mass: An Interpretable GMM Drift Statistic that Matches Kernel Two-Sample Tests

arXiv:2607. 16811v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drift detectors that work tend not to explain themselves, and drift detectors that explain themselves tend to fail in high dimension.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Auditing Frozen-Encoder Anomaly Detection Across Mechanical Systems: Representation Provenance, Calibration, and Protocol Effects

This paper presents a reproducibility audit of frozen‑encoder anomaly detection experiments originally reported on arXiv. The authors confirm that the numerical discrimination results can be reproduced from the preserved artifacts, but they find that the claimed causal link to interferometric pretraining is unsupported. They show that near‑zero embeddings and architectural choices, rather than a morphological prior from gravitational‑wave instrumentation, explain the observed anomaly‑detection performance.

By Jose S\'anchez Andreu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Modeling Normal Is All You Need: Joint Latent Clustering for Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2607. 06094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Faults on a cyber-physical system (CPS) are too rare and unrepresentative to characterise, or even to select a model on, so detection must instead model normal behaviour; the standard point-adjusted evaluation, however, rewards detectors that never do.

By Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Can We Predict Anomaly Detection Performance from Embedding-Space Geometry?

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