arXiv Machine Learning

Generative multi-domain transfer learning for fault detection in data-scarce wind turbines

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection: A Survey

The paper surveys Multi‑Modal Anomaly Detection (MMAD), a field that identifies rare abnormal events across heterogeneous data sources used in safety‑critical domains like industrial inspection and cybersecurity. It formalizes MMAD, outlines five core characteristics, and categorizes existing methods into normality‑assumption and anomaly‑assumption paradigms, highlighting how foundation models are reshaping the field. The survey also compiles benchmarks, evaluation protocols, and identifies open problems for developing robust, adaptive, and interpretable MMAD systems.

By Xudong Mou, Zexin Wu, Chuan Luo, Shiru Chen, Xudong Liu, Chunming Hu, Renyu Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Robust Fault Detection in Mechanical Multimodal Time Series via Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Reconstruction

The paper introduces a multimodal anomaly detection framework that uses cross‑modal reconstruction of heterogeneous time‑series sensor data to detect faults in industrial systems. By learning to reconstruct each modality from the others, the method leverages complementary information across sensing channels without requiring explicit temporal alignment or identical sampling rates. An adaptive test‑time thresholding mechanism further improves robustness to distribution shifts caused by changing operating conditions, as demonstrated by strong fault detection performance in three industrial case studies, especially under out‑of‑distribution regimes.

By Magnus Munk Jensen, Dorte Hammersh{\o}i, Rafa{\l} Wi\'sniewski, Olga Fink
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

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
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ASTER: Latent Pseudo-Anomaly Generation for Unsupervised Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2604. 13924v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is critical in domains such as industrial monitoring, healthcare, and cybersecurity, but it remains challenging due to rare and heterogeneous anomalies and the scarcity of labelled data.

By Romain Hermary, Samet Hicsonmez, Dan Pineau, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Djamila Aouada