让多个模型辩论,用数学方法融合分歧,提升表格异常检测的鲁棒性。
Multi-Agent Debate: A Unified Agentic Framework for Tabular Anomaly Detection
- 多个检测器通过辩论机制共享分数、置信度和证据,由协调器统一调度。
- 在多个基准上比基线方法降低12%~23%的误报率,且可追踪模型分歧过程。
- 适合需要高可靠性与可解释性的工业级表格数据异常检测场景。
表格异常检测通常依赖单一检测器或静态集成,但高性能往往来自异构模型族(如树集成、深度表格网络、表格基础模型)的组合。这些模型在分布偏移、缺失值和罕见异常场景下常产生矛盾判断。本文提出多智能体辩论框架MAD,将这种分歧视为核心信号,通过数学化协调层进行解决。每个智能体为基于机器学习的检测器,输出归一化异常分数、置信度及结构化证据,并由大语言模型辅助生成批判性反馈。协调器将各消息转化为有界每智能体损失,并使用指数梯度规则更新智能体影响力,最终输出经辩论的异常分数及可审计的辩论轨迹。MAD是统一的智能体框架,可通过限制消息空间与合成算子还原现有方法(如专家混合门控、带专家建议的学习聚合)。我们建立了合成损失的后悔保证,并证明可通过符合性校准控制交换性下的假阳性。在多样化的表格异常检测基准上,MAD展现出优于基线的鲁棒性,且模型分歧路径更清晰。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Tabular anomaly detection is often handled by single detectors or static ensembles, even though strong performance on tabular data typically comes from heterogeneous model families (e.g., tree ensembles, deep tabular networks, and tabular foundation models) that frequently disagree under distribution shift, missingness, and rare-anomaly regimes. We propose MAD, a Multi-Agent Debating framework that treats this disagreement as a first-class signal and resolves it through a mathematically grounded coordination layer. Each agent is a machine learning (ML)-based detector that produces a normalized anomaly score, confidence, and structured evidence, augmented by a large language model (LLM)-based critic. A coordinator converts these messages into bounded per-agent losses and updates agent influence via an exponentiated-gradient rule, yielding both a final debated anomaly score and an auditable debate trace. MAD is a unified agentic framework that can recover existing approaches, such as mixture-of-experts gating and learning-with-expert-advice aggregation, by restricting the message space and synthesis operator. We establish regret guarantees for the synthesized losses and show how conformal calibration can wrap the debated score to control false positives under exchangeability. Experiments on diverse tabular anomaly benchmarks show improved robustness over baselines and clearer traces of model disagreement
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