This survey reviews industrial anomaly synthesis (IAS), a field that has been underrepresented in prior studies focused on anomaly detection. It categorizes IAS methods into four paradigms—hand‑crafted, distribution‑hypothesis, generative model, and vision‑language model—while presenting a taxonomy that facilitates systematic comparison. The paper also discusses datasets, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, multimodal advances, and practical deployment considerations, offering guidance for future research.
arXiv:2610.19610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection (AD) is bottlenecked by the scarcity of anomalous samples, making high-fidelity anomaly synthesis crucial for improving do...
AnomalyAgent is an agentic framework for industrial anomaly synthesis that uses five tools—Prompt Generation, Image Generation, Quality Evaluation, Knowledge Retrieval, and Mask Generation—to iteratively refine anomaly samples. It employs a two‑stage training process combining supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning, guided by a three‑part reward system that encourages task performance, self‑reflection, and trajectory adherence. On the MVTec‑AD dataset, AnomalyAgent outperforms zero‑shot state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving superior anomaly generation scores and high classification and detection accuracy.
arXiv:2609.37314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic anomaly generation helps expand industrial anomaly datasets when real defects are scarce or unavailable. Existing approaches lie at two extre...
arXiv:2606. 04599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have shown promise in automating complex data-analysis workflows, but their reliable deployment remains challenging in high-stakes industrial scenarios.
The paper introduces Anomaly‑LR, a defect‑grounded latent reasoning framework for industrial anomaly detection that builds a global understanding of an image and then refines anomaly‑relevant representations directly in visual latent space. It also presents IAD‑LR‑22K, a new instruction dataset with 22,228 image‑question pairs and detailed annotations. Experiments demonstrate that Anomaly‑LR outperforms comparable‑scale methods on multiple IAD benchmarks without needing external references or tools.
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.
IAD-Unify is a unified architecture that connects a multimodal language model, a dense visual expert, and a diffusion editor via task‑specific token interfaces to perform industrial anomaly inspection tasks such as explaining defects, localizing pixels, and generating controlled edits. It uses a multi‑reference DINOv2 pathway to create a dense anomaly field, compresses it into structured evidence tokens, and feeds these tokens to Qwen3.5 for grounded answers and semantic residuals, while a separate query interface integrates with Stable Diffusion for localized generation. The system is trained in stages—first aligning dense evidence with language, then calibrating segmentation, and finally pre‑training the diffusion editor—while also building a large, quality‑controlled dataset of anomaly evidence and edit pairs.
arXiv:2607. 16243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal industrial anomaly inspection assistants are a critical component of next-generation smart factories, enabling interactive vision-language-based querying.
arXiv:2610.15032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection benchmarks have advanced rapidly, yet they remain largely static and therefore underrepresent deployment settings in whi...
CAST is a framework for generating anomalous time series that addresses the scarcity and heterogeneity of anomaly data. It uses a two‑stage approach: pretraining on abundant normal data to learn system dynamics, then finetuning with anomaly structure representations to capture diverse anomaly morphologies. Experiments on real‑world datasets show that CAST outperforms existing methods in both generation quality and downstream task performance.
arXiv:2602. 13807v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series anomaly detection is critical in many real-world applications, where effective solutions must localize anomalous regions and support reliable decision-making under complex settings.
arXiv:2606. 01992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection has historically been a unimodal task.