提出用投影算子检测异常,更适配低维流形数据。
Rethinking Structural Anomaly Detection: From Decision Boundaries to Projection Operators

- 学习正常数据流形的投影算子,异常即投影后变化大的样本
- 投影对齐方法性能超越传统边界与重建方法
- 无需概率建模,减少罕见正常样本误判
现有异常检测方法通常依赖概率密度估计或封闭决策边界,隐含假设正常数据在高维空间中占据非零体积。然而,结构化异常检测关注的数据位于低维流形附近,导致现有方法的归纳偏置与数据结构不匹配,性能下降。为此,本文引入几何视角:学习正常样本流形上的投影算子,并将被投影改变的样本定义为异常。该形式自然融合了流形数据的归纳偏置,将异常检测重构为投影残差问题,解决了退化分布建模带来的问题。尤其揭示了重建类方法成功与失败的本质在于投影质量,解释了投影对齐模型强泛化能力源于向流形收缩的行为。同时,通过解耦异常检测与概率建模,降低了将稀有但正常样本误判为异常的风险。实验证明,投影对齐方法性能优异,优于基于边界的模型,并改进了现有重建方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most existing anomaly detection methods rely on estimating a probability density or learning an enclosing decision boundary, implicitly assuming that normal data occupies a region of non-zero volume in the ambient space. In contrast, structural anomaly detection considers data that lies near a low-dimensional manifold, creating a mismatch between the inductive bias of existing methods and the structure of the data, often resulting in degraded performance. To address this mismatch, we introduce a geometric perspective. Specifically, we learn a projection operator onto the manifold of normal samples and define a sample as anomalous if it is altered by this projection. This formulation naturally integrates the inductive bias of manifold-supported data and reframes anomaly detection in terms of a projection residual, thereby resolving issues arising from modeling degenerate distributions. Notably, it provides a unifying interpretation of reconstruction-based methods by explaining their success and failure in terms of projection quality. In particular, it explains the strong generalization ability of projection-aligned models as a consequence of contraction behavior toward the manifold. Moreover, by decoupling anomaly detection from probabilistic modeling, it reduces the tendency to misclassify rare but normal samples, a widely recognized limitation of existing approaches. Empirically, we demonstrate that projection-aligned methods achieve strong performance, outperforming boundary-based methods while improving upon existing reconstruction-based approaches.
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