Latent Sculpting for Zero-Shot Generalization: A Manifold Learning Approach to Out-of-Distribution Anomaly Detection
The paper proposes "Latent Sculpting," a hierarchical two-stage architecture that combines a Transformer-based encoder with a Binary Latent Sculpting loss and a Masked Autoregressive Flow to enforce explicit geometric boundaries on benign data, achieving robust zero-shot generalization and high detection rates for out-of-distribution cyberattacks on the CIC-IDS-2017 benchmark.