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Current deep learning methods for anomaly detection in text rely on supervisory signals in inliers that may be unobtainable or bespoke architectures that are difficult to tune. We study a simpler alternative: fine-tuning Transformers on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

Anomaly detection aims to recognize samples with anomalous and unusual patterns with respect to a set of normal data. This is significant for numerous domain applications, such as industrial inspection, medical imaging, and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Shuo Wang , Tianle Chen , Shangyu Chen , Carsten Rudolph , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler

Automatic log analysis is essential for the efficient Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of software systems, providing critical insights into system behaviors. However, existing approaches mostly treat log analysis as training a model to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yilun Liu , Yuhe Ji , Shimin Tao , Minggui He , Weibin Meng , Shenglin Zhang , Yongqian Sun , Yuming Xie , Boxing Chen , Hao Yang

Nowadays, the volume of network traffic continues to grow, along with the frequency and sophistication of attacks. This scenario highlights the need for solutions capable of continuously adapting, since network behavior is dynamic and…

Anomaly detection, which aims to identify anomalies deviating from normal patterns, is challenging due to the limited amount of normal data available. Unlike most existing unified methods that rely on carefully designed image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jiawei Liu , Jiahe Hou , Wei Wang , Jinsong Du , Yang Cong , Huijie Fan

Anomaly detection in time series data, to identify points that deviate from normal behaviour, is a common problem in various domains such as manufacturing, medical imaging, and cybersecurity. Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Md Abul Bashar , Richi Nayak

Semantic anomalies are contextually invalid or unusual combinations of familiar visual elements that can cause undefined behavior and failures in system-level reasoning for autonomous systems. This work explores semantic anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Max Peter Ronecker , Matthew Foutter , Amine Elhafsi , Daniele Gammelli , Ihor Barakaiev , Marco Pavone , Daniel Watzenig

With the widespread adoption of cloud services, especially the extensive deployment of plenty of Web applications, it is important and challenging to detect anomalies from the packet payload. For example, the anomalies in the packet payload…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Jiaxin Liu , Xucheng Song , Yingjie Zhou , Xi Peng , Yanru Zhang , Pei Liu , Dapeng Wu

Modern telecom systems are monitored with performance and system logs from multiple application layers and components. Detecting anomalous events from these logs is key to identify security breaches, resource over-utilization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Abhishek Sarkar , Tanmay Sen , Srimanta Kundu , Arijit Sarkar , Abdul Wazed

We propose a supervised anomaly detection method based on neural density estimators, where the negative log likelihood is used for the anomaly score. Density estimators have been widely used for unsupervised anomaly detection. By the recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Tomoharu Iwata , Yuki Yamanaka

Recent surface anomaly detection methods excel at identifying structural anomalies, such as dents and scratches, but struggle with logical anomalies, such as irregular or missing object components. The best-performing logical anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Matic Fučka , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Danijel Skočaj

Neural language models are usually trained to match the distributional properties of a large-scale corpus by minimizing the log loss. While straightforward to optimize, this approach forces the model to reproduce all variations in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Daniel Kang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit remarkable zero-shot capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms driving their anomaly detection (AD) performance remain poorly understood. Current methods predominantly treat VLMs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shaotian Li , Shangze Li , Chuancheng Shi , Wenhua Wu , Yanqiu Wu , Xiaohan Yu , Fei Shen , Tat-Seng Chua

Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection (OVVAD) seeks to detect and classify both base and novel anomalies. However, existing methods face two specific challenges related to novel anomalies. The first challenge is detection ambiguity, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Fei Li , Wenxuan Liu , Jingjing Chen , Ruixu Zhang , Yuran Wang , Xian Zhong , Zheng Wang

Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring. Within natural language processing (NLP), AD helps detect issues like spam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tiankai Yang , Yi Nian , Shawn Li , Ruiyao Xu , Yuangang Li , Jiaqi Li , Zhuo Xiao , Xiyang Hu , Ryan Rossi , Kaize Ding , Xia Hu , Yue Zhao

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

Log anomaly detection is crucial for uncovering system failures and security risks. Although logs originate from nested component executions with clear boundaries, this structure is lost when stored as flat sequences. As a result,…

Logging statements are essential for software debugging and maintenance. However, existing approaches to automatic logging generation rely on static analysis and produce statements in a single pass without considering runtime behavior. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xin Wang , Yang Feng , Jiaoxiao Qian , Yang Zhang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Logs play a critical role in providing essential information for system monitoring and troubleshooting. Recently, with the success of pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lipeng Ma , Weidong Yang , Sihang Jiang , Ben Fei , Mingjie Zhou , Shuhao Li , Mingyu Zhao , Bo Xu , Yanghua Xiao

Identifying anomalous instances in tabular data is essential for improving data reliability and maintaining system stability. Due to the scarcity of ground-truth anomaly labels, existing methods mainly rely on unsupervised anomaly detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Huang , Yuxuan Xiong , Hezhe Qiao , Yu-Ming Shang , Xiangling Fu , Guansong Pang