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Can We Predict Anomaly Detection Performance from Embedding-Space Geometry?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Anomaly detection systems are often trained using normal data alone, while model selection and evaluation typically require labeled anomalies. We study whether anomaly detection performance can be predicted without access to anomalous data. For kNN-based detectors, we derive a lower bound on the area under the ROC curve (AUC) that relates detection performance to the separation between inlier and outlier scores and to their respective variances. Under a local scaling model, we use this bound to characterize how density variation, intrinsic-dimensional heterogeneity, and cross-domain mismatch c

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