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summary: "The Task-Aware Diffusion Refiner (TADR) is proposed for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge pipelines. TADR is a conditional diffusion refiner trained against the loss landscape of a frozen downstream detector. TADR raises F1 by $0.338$ over the unrefined detector on SMD with a paired significance test where $p = 0.0015$. The anomaly enhancement objective alone contributes $0.463$ in ablation."
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# Don't Just Impute, Detect: Task\-Aware Diffusion Pipelines for Edge Anomaly Detection

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**Published:** 2026-11-02T05:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** inference

## Summary

The Task\-Aware Diffusion Refiner \(TADR\) is proposed for Industrial Internet of Things \(IIoT\) edge pipelines\. TADR is a conditional diffusion refiner trained against the loss landscape of a frozen downstream detector\. TADR raises F1 by $0\.338$ over the unrefined detector on SMD with a paired significance test where $p \= 0\.0015$\. The anomaly enhancement objective alone contributes $0\.463$ in ablation\.

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