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Boosting Anomaly Detection Using Unsupervised Diverse Test-Time Augmentation

29 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.15700archive 2025-07-28

Seffi Cohen, Niv Goldshlager, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira

Anomaly detection is a well-known task that involves the identification of abnormal events that occur relatively infrequently. Methods for improving anomaly detection performance have been widely studied. However, no studies utilizing test-time augmentation (TTA) for anomaly detection in tabular data have been performed. TTA involves aggregating the predictions of several synthetic versions of a given test sample; TTA produces different points of view for a specific test instance and might decrease its prediction bias. We propose the Test-Time Augmentation for anomaly Detection (TTAD) technique, a TTA-based method aimed at improving anomaly detection performance. TTAD augments a test instance based on its nearest neighbors; various methods, including the k-Means centroid and SMOTE methods, are used to produce the augmentations. Our technique utilizes a Siamese network to learn an advanced distance metric when retrieving a test instance's neighbors. Our experiments show that the anomaly detector that uses our TTA technique achieved significantly higher AUC results on all datasets evaluated.

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