Self-Supervised Losses for One-Class Textual Anomaly Detection
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Current deep learning methods for anomaly detection in text rely on supervisory signals in inliers that may be unobtainable or bespoke architectures that are difficult to tune. We study a simpler alternative: fine-tuning Transformers on the inlier data with self-supervised objectives and using the losses as an anomaly score. Overall, the self-supervision approach outperforms other methods under various anomaly detection scenarios, improving the AUROC score on semantic anomalies by 11.6 22.8 representation depend on the type of downstream anomaly. The separability of anomalies and inliers signals that a representation is more effective for detecting semantic anomalies, whilst the presence of narrow feature directions signals a representation that is effective for detecting syntactic anomalies.
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