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
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:2606. 13754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection is a fundamental component of intelligent systems with applications in healthcare, cybersecurity, smart grids, and IoT environments.
By Ghazal Ghajari, Elaheh Ghajari, Ashutosh Ghimire, Saeid Ataei, Faris Alsulami, Fathi Amsaad
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
arXiv:2609.37935v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deep Support Vector Data Description (Deep SVDD) has become a prominent framework for unsupervised anomaly detection by learning latent representatio...
By Cao Le Cong Thanh, Dang Quang Vinh, Vo Nguyen Le Duy
arXiv:2507. 21164v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available.
By Nicolas Pinon (MYRIAD), Robin Trombetta (MYRIAD), Carole Lartizien (MYRIAD)