Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · November 6, 2026
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We propose AnomSep, which combines optimiza-tion-based separation with deep neural refinement to achieve accurate anomaly detection with listenable explanations. Anomaly detection requires no predefined anomalous categories, and understanding the basis for each detection helps security personnel assess the validity of each detection. End-to-end anomaly detectors can achieve high detection accuracy but output only scalar scores, and existing anomalous sound separation methods provide listenable explanations with limited detection accuracy. AnomSep first obtains preliminary normal-sound and anomalous-sound estimates through optimization-based separation using a dictionary learned from normal sounds in the target environment. Deep neural refinement then improves the preliminary estimates in a pretrained audio latent space. The separated anomalous sound serves as the listenable explanation, and its energy determines the anomaly score. Experiments on synthetic mixtures and real mixtures show improved separation quality over baseline separators. AnomSep achieves detection performance competitive with the end-to-end baseline and provides listenable explanations directly linked to each detection decision.