Beyond a Single Perspective: Text Anomaly Detection with Multi-View Language Representations

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Yixin, Yan, Kehan, Li, Shiyuan, Chen, Qingfeng, Pan, Shirui
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author Liu, Yixin
Yan, Kehan
Li, Shiyuan
Chen, Qingfeng
Pan, Shirui
author_facet Liu, Yixin
Yan, Kehan
Li, Shiyuan
Chen, Qingfeng
Pan, Shirui
contents Text anomaly detection (TAD) plays a critical role in various language-driven real-world applications, including harmful content moderation, phishing detection, and spam review filtering. While two-step "embedding-detector" TAD methods have shown state-of-the-art performance, their effectiveness is often limited by the use of a single embedding model and the lack of adaptability across diverse datasets and anomaly types. To address these limitations, we propose to exploit the embeddings from multiple pretrained language models and integrate them into $MCA^2$, a multi-view TAD framework. $MCA^2$ adopts a multi-view reconstruction model to effectively extract normal textual patterns from multiple embedding perspectives. To exploit inter-view complementarity, a contrastive collaboration module is designed to leverage and strengthen the interactions across different views. Moreover, an adaptive allocation module is developed to automatically assign the contribution weight of each view, thereby improving the adaptability to diverse datasets. Extensive experiments on 10 benchmark datasets verify the effectiveness of $MCA^2$ against strong baselines. The source code of $MCA^2$ is available at https://github.com/yankehan/MCA2.
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spellingShingle Beyond a Single Perspective: Text Anomaly Detection with Multi-View Language Representations
Liu, Yixin
Yan, Kehan
Li, Shiyuan
Chen, Qingfeng
Pan, Shirui
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Text anomaly detection (TAD) plays a critical role in various language-driven real-world applications, including harmful content moderation, phishing detection, and spam review filtering. While two-step "embedding-detector" TAD methods have shown state-of-the-art performance, their effectiveness is often limited by the use of a single embedding model and the lack of adaptability across diverse datasets and anomaly types. To address these limitations, we propose to exploit the embeddings from multiple pretrained language models and integrate them into $MCA^2$, a multi-view TAD framework. $MCA^2$ adopts a multi-view reconstruction model to effectively extract normal textual patterns from multiple embedding perspectives. To exploit inter-view complementarity, a contrastive collaboration module is designed to leverage and strengthen the interactions across different views. Moreover, an adaptive allocation module is developed to automatically assign the contribution weight of each view, thereby improving the adaptability to diverse datasets. Extensive experiments on 10 benchmark datasets verify the effectiveness of $MCA^2$ against strong baselines. The source code of $MCA^2$ is available at https://github.com/yankehan/MCA2.
title Beyond a Single Perspective: Text Anomaly Detection with Multi-View Language Representations
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17786