Twin Fuzzy Networks With Interpolation Consistency Regularization for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection

Weakly supervised anomaly detection (WSAD) has gained increasing attention due to its core idea of enhancing the performance of unsupervised anomaly detection by leveraging prior knowledge from a limited number of labeled anomalies. In this article, we introduce a novel WSAD framework that surpasses current state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy, exhibits greater robustness to data uncertainty, and is more efficient in utilizing limited labeled anomalies. Our method is built upon twin fuzzy networks (TFN) that learn robust fuzzy if–then rules from a pairwise training set. TFN can extract informative prototypes of training instances, exploiting the very few labeled anomalies efficiently. A two-stage sequential training scheme, comprising fuzzy C-means clustering and interpolation consistency regularization, ensures that the fuzzy rules form a solid foundation for anomaly detection while improving TFN's generalization ability. The training process of TFN relies on closed-form optimization rather than gradient-based methods, leading to significantly faster training speeds. Comprehensive experiments conducted on numerous real-world datasets confirm the advantages of the TFN framework over existing alternatives.