Data-Driven Cross-Lingual Anomaly Detection via Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Deep anomaly detection in multilingual environments remains challenging due to limited labeled data, semantic inconsistency across languages, and the unstable distribution of rare abnormal patterns. These challenges are particularly severe in low-resource scenarios—characterized by scarce labeled anomaly data and non-standardized terminology—where conventional supervised or transfer-based models suffer from semantic drift and feature mismatch. To address these limitations, a data-driven cross-lingual anomaly detection framework, LR-SSAD, is proposed. Targeting paired text and behavioral data without requiring parallel translation corpora, the framework is built upon the joint optimization of complementary self-supervised objectives. A cross-lingual masked prediction module is designed to capture language-invariant semantic structures to align semantic spaces, while a Mamba-based sequence reconstruction module leverages its linear computational complexity (O(N)) to efficiently model long-range dependencies in transaction histories, overcoming the computational bottlenecks of quadratic attention mechanisms. To further enhance robustness under noisy supervision, a noise-aware pseudo-label refinement mechanism is introduced. Evaluated on a newly constructed real-world financial dataset (spanning January–June 2023) comprising 1.2 million multilingual texts and 420,000 transaction sequences, experimental results demonstrate that LR-SSAD achieves substantial improvements over state-of-the-art baselines. The model achieves an accuracy of 0.932, a precision of 0.914, a recall of 0.891, and an F1-score of 0.902, with the Area Under the Curve (AUC) reaching 0.948. The proposed framework provides a scalable and data-efficient solution for anomaly detection in real-world multilingual environments.