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ReForest: Interpretability Meets Reasoning in Isolation Forest
arXiv:2610.37316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical anomaly detection methods like Isolation Forest are efficient but suffer from a critical semantic gap. They identify numerical rarities but
arXiv:2610.37316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical anomaly detection methods like Isolation Forest are efficient but suffer from a critical semantic gap. They identify numerical rarities but fail to understand the contextual meaning of data, often missing subtle, context-dependent anomalies. Conversely, Large Language Models possess strong semantic reasoning capabilities but are prohibitively expensive and slow for large-scale deployment. To bridge this gap, we propose ReForest, a novel framework that synergizes the statistical efficiency of Isolation Forest with the reasoning power of LLMs. ReForest transforms the latent decision paths of Isolation Forest into natural-language explanations, enabling an LLM to refine anomaly detection through an uncertainty-aware dynamic ensemble. This approach allows the model to adaptively weigh statistical and semantic signals based on uncertainty-driven instance-level confidence. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets (Healthcare, Finance) demonstrate that ReForest significantly outperforms baselines, achieving an average 21% improvement in Recall and a 10% gain in F1-score. Our framework not only improves detection performance but also enhances model transparency by grounding semantic narratives in statistical evidence, providing interpretable rationales essential for high-stakes decision-making.
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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-10-28