Confidence-Guided Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer for Multimodal Anomaly Detection in Microservice Systems

2026-09-22

AI Summary

为解决微服务系统中多模态异常检测的跨模态信息利用问题，提出了一种基于置信度引导的跨模态知识转移方法（CMT-AD），通过估计模态可靠性并引入门控中间模态来缓解异质性。

Abstract

Accurate anomaly detection is essential for reliable and secure operations of microservice systems. While an increasing number of studies have shifted from unimodal modeling to multimodal interaction and fusion, effectively leveraging reliable cross-modal information remains challenging. The challenge primarily stems from two aspects. Firstly, different modalities are influenced by factors like load fluctuations, leading to dynamically changing reliability. Secondly, multimodal data exhibit heterogeneity in both structure and semantics. Therefore, we propose a confidence-guided Cross-Modal knowledge Transfer method for multimodal Anomaly Detection (CMT-AD). It jointly models metrics and logs within a unified deep clustering framework and estimates modality reliability through the soft clustering distributions, where clustering uncertainty is quantified into confidence scores. Guided by these confidence scores, the model actively analyzes the contributions of each modality in cross-modal interactions and supplements low-confidence modalities with knowledge from high-confidence ones. To further mitigate cross-modal heterogeneity, we introduce a gated intermediate modality and design structural and semantic consistency constraints that align the original modalities with the intermediate modality to preserve similarity structures and semantic distributions across modalities. Furthermore, intra-modal and cross-modal regularization terms are incorporated to enhance cluster compactness and mitigate negative transfer. We evaluated CMT-AD on three large-scale datasets, and the results demonstrate that CMT-AD outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and achieves an F1-score higher than 0.9.

Problem

• anomaly detection
• microservice systems
• multimodal interaction
• reliability
• heterogeneity

Innovation

• confidence-guided
• cross-modal knowledge transfer
• multimodal anomaly detection
• gated intermediate modality
• structural and semantic consistency