CEDL: Centre-Enhanced Discriminative Learning for Anomaly Detection

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Main Authors: Darban, Zahra Zamanzadeh, Wang, Qizhou, Aggarwal, Charu C., Webb, Geoffrey I., Abbasnejad, Ehsan, Salehi, Mahsa
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author Darban, Zahra Zamanzadeh
Wang, Qizhou
Aggarwal, Charu C.
Webb, Geoffrey I.
Abbasnejad, Ehsan
Salehi, Mahsa
author_facet Darban, Zahra Zamanzadeh
Wang, Qizhou
Aggarwal, Charu C.
Webb, Geoffrey I.
Abbasnejad, Ehsan
Salehi, Mahsa
contents Supervised anomaly detection methods perform well in identifying known anomalies that are well represented in the training set. However, they often struggle to generalise beyond the training distribution due to decision boundaries that lack a clear definition of normality. Existing approaches typically address this by regularising the representation space during training, leading to separate optimisation in latent and label spaces. The learned normality is therefore not directly utilised at inference, and their anomaly scores often fall within arbitrary ranges that require explicit mapping or calibration for probabilistic interpretation. To achieve unified learning of geometric normality and label discrimination, we propose Centre-Enhanced Discriminative Learning (CEDL), a novel supervised anomaly detection framework that embeds geometric normality directly into the discriminative objective. CEDL reparameterises the conventional sigmoid-derived prediction logit through a centre-based radial distance function, unifying geometric and discriminative learning in a single end-to-end formulation. This design enables interpretable, geometry-aware anomaly scoring without post-hoc thresholding or reference calibration. Extensive experiments on tabular, time-series, and image data demonstrate that CEDL achieves competitive and balanced performance across diverse real-world anomaly detection tasks, validating its effectiveness and broad applicability.
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spellingShingle CEDL: Centre-Enhanced Discriminative Learning for Anomaly Detection
Darban, Zahra Zamanzadeh
Wang, Qizhou
Aggarwal, Charu C.
Webb, Geoffrey I.
Abbasnejad, Ehsan
Salehi, Mahsa
Machine Learning
Supervised anomaly detection methods perform well in identifying known anomalies that are well represented in the training set. However, they often struggle to generalise beyond the training distribution due to decision boundaries that lack a clear definition of normality. Existing approaches typically address this by regularising the representation space during training, leading to separate optimisation in latent and label spaces. The learned normality is therefore not directly utilised at inference, and their anomaly scores often fall within arbitrary ranges that require explicit mapping or calibration for probabilistic interpretation. To achieve unified learning of geometric normality and label discrimination, we propose Centre-Enhanced Discriminative Learning (CEDL), a novel supervised anomaly detection framework that embeds geometric normality directly into the discriminative objective. CEDL reparameterises the conventional sigmoid-derived prediction logit through a centre-based radial distance function, unifying geometric and discriminative learning in a single end-to-end formulation. This design enables interpretable, geometry-aware anomaly scoring without post-hoc thresholding or reference calibration. Extensive experiments on tabular, time-series, and image data demonstrate that CEDL achieves competitive and balanced performance across diverse real-world anomaly detection tasks, validating its effectiveness and broad applicability.
title CEDL: Centre-Enhanced Discriminative Learning for Anomaly Detection
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12388