An Adversarial Zero-Shot Learning Approach for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate IoT Traffic Data

The paper introduces a novel zero‑shot anomaly detection framework for multivariate IoT traffic data that combines adversarial learning and contrastive loss within a sequence‑based Variational Autoencoder. It achieves domain‑invariant latent representations and semantically structured embeddings without labeled data, using encoder/decoder adaptor layers to align feature distributions and a destination‑based segmentation strategy to model real‑world communication patterns. The method is evaluated on six diverse datasets across 44 transfer scenarios, showing strong zero‑shot generalization and competitive performance against a contrastive domain‑adaptation baseline in heterogeneous, privacy‑constrained IoT environments.

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