SAGE: A Visual Language Model for Anomaly Detection via Fact Enhancement and Entropy-aware Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07939v2
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:11:41 GMT
• Title: SAGE: A Visual Language Model for Anomaly Detection via Fact Enhancement and Entropy-aware Alignment
• Authors: Guoxin Zang, Xue Li, Donglin Di, Lanshun Nie, Dechen Zhan, Yang Song, Lei Fan,
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle in industrial anomaly detection and reasoning.<n>SAGE is a VLM-based framework that enhances anomaly reasoning through Self-Guided Fact Enhancement (SFE) and Entropy-aware Direct Preference Optimization (E-DPO)<n>SAGE demonstrates superior performance on industrial anomaly datasets under zero-shot and one-shot settings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising progress in general multimodal tasks, they often struggle in industrial anomaly detection and reasoning, particularly in delivering interpretable explanations and generalizing to unseen categories. This limitation stems from the inherently domain-specific nature of anomaly detection, which hinders the applicability of existing VLMs in industrial scenarios that require precise, structured, and context-aware analysis. To address these challenges, we propose SAGE, a VLM-based framework that enhances anomaly reasoning through Self-Guided Fact Enhancement (SFE) and Entropy-aware Direct Preference Optimization (E-DPO). SFE integrates domain-specific knowledge into visual reasoning via fact extraction and fusion, while E-DPO aligns model outputs with expert preferences using entropy-aware optimization. Additionally, we introduce AD-PL, a preference-optimized dataset tailored for industrial anomaly reasoning, consisting of 28,415 question-answering instances with expert-ranked responses. To evaluate anomaly reasoning models, we develop Multiscale Logical Evaluation (MLE), a quantitative framework analyzing model logic and consistency. SAGE demonstrates superior performance on industrial anomaly datasets under zero-shot and one-shot settings. The code, model and dataset are available at https://github.com/amoreZgx1n/SAGE.

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