Learning Invariant Discriminative Patterns for Unified Anomaly Detection

Unified Anomaly Detection (UAD) aims to identify anomalies across diverse domains without access to target domain data during training. Unlike traditional anomaly detection methods that rely on training separate models for each domain, UAD employs a single model to generalize across multiple categories. A key challenge lies in the domain shift between seen and unseen data, which requires capturing invariant discriminative patterns between reference and query images across different domains during in-context learning for unified anomaly detection. To tackle this, we propose a novel UAD framework to learn the invariant discriminative patterns through pre-, in- and post-processing modules. First, a pre-processing VLM-guided data augmentation module generates diverse and semantically consist images, followed by a latent-space filtering mechanism. Second, an in-processing Adaptive VQ memory module stores representative discriminative patterns to enable robust residual comparison. Third, a post-processing GUR (Geometric distributions Upgrade Representation) feature augmentation module models geometric feature distributions to synthesize informative prompts, improving the quality of feature delta estimation for anomaly scoring. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method achieves superior generalization in detecting anomalies across unseen domains, outperforming existing state-of-the-art approaches.