基于特征依赖关系的异常检测,提升高维表格数据识别能力
uLEAD-TabPFN: Uncertainty-aware Dependency-based Anomaly Detection with TabPFN

- 通过冻结的先验数据拟合网络学习特征间条件依赖关系
- 在57个数据集上平均排名领先,高维数据下ROC-AUC提升近20%
- 适合处理复杂依赖结构的高维表格数据异常检测
表格数据中的异常检测因维度高、特征依赖复杂及噪声异质而具有挑战性。现有方法多依赖邻近性线索,可能忽略由复杂特征依赖违反引发的异常。基于依赖关系的异常检测通过识别特征间依赖关系的违反来定位异常,但现有方法在建模依赖关系的鲁棒性与高维复杂依赖结构上的可扩展性方面存在不足。为此,我们提出uLEAD-TabPFN,一种基于先验-数据拟合网络(PFNs)的依赖关系异常检测框架。该框架在学习到的隐空间中将异常识别为条件依赖关系的违反,并利用冻结的PFNs进行依赖估计。结合不确定性感知评分机制,实现稳健且可扩展的异常检测。在ADBench的57个表格数据集上的实验表明,uLEAD-TabPFN在中高维场景下表现尤为出色,达到最高平均排名。在高维数据集上,其平均ROC-AUC相比基准平均值提升近20%,优于最优基线约2.8%,整体性能超越现有最先进方法。进一步分析显示,uLEAD-TabPFN具备互补检测能力,在多数现有方法表现不佳的数据集上仍保持优异性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Anomaly detection in tabular data is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex feature dependencies, and heterogeneous noise. Many existing methods rely on proximity-based cues and may miss anomalies caused by violations of complex feature dependencies. Dependency-based anomaly detection provides a principled alternative by identifying anomalies as violations of dependencies among features. However, existing methods often struggle to model such dependencies robustly and to scale to high-dimensional data with complex dependency structures. To address these challenges, we propose uLEAD-TabPFN, a dependency-based anomaly detection framework built on Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs). uLEAD-TabPFN identifies anomalies as violations of conditional dependencies in a learned latent space, leveraging frozen PFNs for dependency estimation. Combined with uncertainty-aware scoring, the proposed framework enables robust and scalable anomaly detection. Experiments on 57 tabular datasets from ADBench show that uLEAD-TabPFN achieves particularly strong performance in medium- and high-dimensional settings, where it attains the top average rank. On high-dimensional datasets, uLEAD-TabPFN improves the average ROC-AUC by nearly 20\% over the average baseline and by approximately 2.8\% over the best-performing baseline, while maintaining overall superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. Further analysis shows that uLEAD-TabPFN provides complementary anomaly detection capability, achieving strong performance on datasets where many existing methods struggle.
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