Your training data is boring: Anomaly detection with LLMs
The Sophos AI team presents new research on anomaly detection Following on from research presented at Black Hat USA 2025, Sophos data scientists Ben Gelman, Tamas Nyiri, and Tibor Kristóf Lányi recently showcased new work on anomaly detection at BSides Las Vegas 2026. As promised, we’re sharing more details of that research (the recording of the talk is also available here). Supervised classifiers in cybersecurity are often trained on data that doesn't capture the most unusual examples.