Anomaly Detection via Autoencoder Composite Features and NCE

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01920v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:29:22 GMT
• Title: Anomaly Detection via Autoencoder Composite Features and NCE
• Authors: Yalin Liao, Austin J. Brockmeier,
• Abstract summary: Autoencoders (AEs) or generative models are often employed to model the data distribution of normal inputs. We propose a decoupled training approach for anomaly detection that both an AE and a likelihood model trained with noise contrastive estimation (NCE)
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• Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging task. Autoencoders (AEs) or generative models are often employed to model the data distribution of normal inputs and subsequently identify anomalous, out-of-distribution inputs by high reconstruction error or low likelihood, respectively. However, AEs may generalize and achieve small reconstruction errors on abnormal inputs. We propose a decoupled training approach for anomaly detection that both an AE and a likelihood model trained with noise contrastive estimation (NCE). After training the AE, NCE estimates a probability density function, to serve as the anomaly score, on the joint space of the AE's latent representation combined with features of the reconstruction quality. To further reduce the false negative rate in NCE we systematically varying the reconstruction features to augment the training and optimize the contrastive Gaussian noise distribution. Experimental assessments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach matches the performance of prevalent state-of-the-art anomaly detection algorithms.

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