Interpretable Maximum Margin Deep Anomaly Detection

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Autori principali: Yang, Zhiji, Huang, Mei, Li, Xinyu, Pan, Xianli, Wang, Qi, Zhao, Jianhua
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Yang, Zhiji
Huang, Mei
Li, Xinyu
Pan, Xianli
Wang, Qi
Zhao, Jianhua
author_facet Yang, Zhiji
Huang, Mei
Li, Xinyu
Pan, Xianli
Wang, Qi
Zhao, Jianhua
contents Anomaly detection is a crucial machine-learning task with wide-ranging applications. Deep Support Vector Data Description (Deep SVDD) is a prominent deep one-class method, but it is vulnerable to hypersphere collapse, often relies on heuristic choices for hypersphere parameters, and provides limited interpretability. To address these issues, we propose Interpretable Maximum Margin Deep Anomaly Detection (IMD-AD), which leverages a small set of labeled anomalies and a maximum margin objective to stabilize training and improve discrimination. It is inherently resilient to hypersphere collapse. Furthermore, we prove an equivalence between hypersphere parameters and the network's final-layer weights, which allows the center and radius to be learned end-to-end as part of the model and yields intrinsic interpretability and visualizable outputs. We further develop an efficient training algorithm that jointly optimizes representation, margin, and final-layer parameters. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on image and tabular benchmarks demonstrate that IMD-AD empirically improves detection performance over several state-of-the-art baselines while providing interpretable decision diagnostics.
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spellingShingle Interpretable Maximum Margin Deep Anomaly Detection
Yang, Zhiji
Huang, Mei
Li, Xinyu
Pan, Xianli
Wang, Qi
Zhao, Jianhua
Machine Learning
Anomaly detection is a crucial machine-learning task with wide-ranging applications. Deep Support Vector Data Description (Deep SVDD) is a prominent deep one-class method, but it is vulnerable to hypersphere collapse, often relies on heuristic choices for hypersphere parameters, and provides limited interpretability. To address these issues, we propose Interpretable Maximum Margin Deep Anomaly Detection (IMD-AD), which leverages a small set of labeled anomalies and a maximum margin objective to stabilize training and improve discrimination. It is inherently resilient to hypersphere collapse. Furthermore, we prove an equivalence between hypersphere parameters and the network's final-layer weights, which allows the center and radius to be learned end-to-end as part of the model and yields intrinsic interpretability and visualizable outputs. We further develop an efficient training algorithm that jointly optimizes representation, margin, and final-layer parameters. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on image and tabular benchmarks demonstrate that IMD-AD empirically improves detection performance over several state-of-the-art baselines while providing interpretable decision diagnostics.
title Interpretable Maximum Margin Deep Anomaly Detection
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07073