UniOD: A Universal Model for Outlier Detection across Diverse Domains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06624v1
• Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:52:12 GMT
• Title: UniOD: A Universal Model for Outlier Detection across Diverse Domains
• Authors: Dazhi Fu, Jicong Fan,
• Abstract summary: Outlier detection (OD) seeks to distinguish inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets.<n>We propose UniOD, a universal OD framework that leverages labeled datasets to train a single model capable of detecting outliers.<n>We evaluate UniOD on 15 benchmark OD datasets against 15 state-of-the-art baselines, demonstrating its effectiveness.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Outlier detection (OD) seeks to distinguish inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets and plays a vital role in science and engineering. Most existing OD methods require troublesome dataset-specific hyperparameter tuning and costly model training before they can be deployed to identify outliers. In this work, we propose UniOD, a universal OD framework that leverages labeled datasets to train a single model capable of detecting outliers of datasets from diverse domains. Specifically, UniOD converts each dataset into multiple graphs, produces consistent node features, and frames outlier detection as a node-classification task, and is able to generalize to unseen domains. As a result, UniOD avoids effort on model selection and hyperparameter tuning, reduces computational cost, and effectively utilizes the knowledge from historical datasets, which improves the convenience and accuracy in real applications. We evaluate UniOD on 15 benchmark OD datasets against 15 state-of-the-art baselines, demonstrating its effectiveness.

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