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48 results for Time Series Anomaly Detection

Proposes a new model for online anomaly detection in multivariate time series.

problem Inaccurate anomaly detection in multivariate time series due to spurious correlations and lack of temporal causality.
method Clusters channels based on correlations, embeds each cluster, and integrates information through a causal mixer while maintaining temporal causality.
result Consistently superior performance across six public benchmark datasets.

Time series data is ubiquitous in the real-world problems across various domains including healthcare, social media, and crime surveillance. Detecting anomalies, or irregular and rare events, in time series data, can enable us to find abnormal events in any natural phenomena, which may require special treatment. Moreov…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

CRATOS clusters time series for efficient anomaly detection.

problem No clear boundary between normal and anomalous behaviors in time series.
method CRATOS clusters time series, then uses evolutionary algorithms to find best anomaly detection methods.
result Significantly reduces development and maintenance costs of anomaly detection.

Survey evaluates 20 anomaly detection methods for time-series data.

problem Comparing statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods for anomaly detection.
method Comprehensive evaluation of 20 methods from three categories on public datasets.
result Provides insights into the performance and suitability of anomaly detection methods.

TimeVQVAE-AD detects anomalies in time series data with high accuracy and provides explainable results.

problem Detecting and explaining anomalies in time series data accurately.
method Masked latent generative modeling in time-frequency domain.
result TimeVQVAE-AD outperforms existing methods in anomaly detection and explainability.

ReRe detects anomalies in real-time for time series data.

problem Real-time anomaly detection for time series data requires human intervention or domain knowledge and high computation complexity.
method ReRe uses two lightweight LSTM models to predict and determine anomalies based on historical data and adaptive thresholds.
result ReRe detects anomalies in real-time without requiring human intervention or domain knowledge.

This paper reviews self-supervised learning methods for time series anomaly detection.

problem Challenges in traditional unsupervised methods for time series anomaly detection.
method Self-supervised learning techniques for time series anomaly detection.
result Enhanced performance of anomaly detectors through self-supervised learning.

GANF uses normalizing flows to detect anomalies in multiple time series.

problem Detecting anomalies in multiple time series with interdependencies.
method Bayesian network integration with normalizing flows for unsupervised anomaly detection.
result GANF effectively detects anomalies and identifies distribution drift in time series data.

TAMA uses LMMs to detect and interpret anomalies in time series data with few labels.

problem Challenges in manual feature engineering and extensive labeled training data for TSAD.
method Leverages LMMs to convert time series into visual formats for few-shot in-context learning.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in TSAD tasks.

A new model detects and localizes anomalies in multivariate time series data.

problem Anomaly diagnosis in multivariate time series data, especially localization.
method Attention Low-Rank Transformer (ALoRa-T) with low-rank regularization and Attention Low-Rank score.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection and localization.

New rules control false discoveries in online anomaly detection for time series data.

problem Controlling false discoveries in anomaly detection for time series data.
method Novel online false discovery rate control (FDRC) rules for time series anomaly detection.
result Ensures high power in detecting anomalies even when the alternative is rare and test statistics are serially dependent.

Paper proposes RAN for better anomaly detection in time series data.

problem Anomaly detection algorithms often fail to accurately detect anomalies due to incomplete reconstruction of anomaly data.
method RAN uses adversarial learning and latent vector-constrained Autoencoder to ensure consistent reconstruction of anomaly data.
result RAN outperforms other algorithms in detecting meaningful anomalies with higher AUC-ROC scores.

TADA detects anomalies in time series using topological data analysis.

problem Detecting global changes in dependency structure between channels in multivariate time series.
method Topological Data Analysis for detecting anomalies in multivariate time series.
result The approach is more suitable for detecting global changes of correlation structures than existing methods.

Proposes a method to detect anomalies in financial time series using PCA and neural networks.

problem Anomalies in financial time series lead to miscalibrated risk models.
method Extract features using PCA, define anomaly score with neural network, calibrate cutoff value.
result The proposed PCA NN approach outperforms other anomaly detection methods.

This paper evaluates anomaly detection methods for multivariate time series data.

problem Lack of systematic comparison of anomaly detection methods on multivariate time series data.
method Comprehensive evaluation of 10 models and 4 scoring functions on 10 datasets.
result Dynamic scoring functions outperform static ones, and the choice of scoring functions matters more than the model choice.

Study examines how different time series cross-validation methods affect anomaly detection in multivariate time series.

problem Evaluating anomaly detection in multivariate time series requires preserving temporal dependencies, especially for subsequence anomalies.
method Systematically investigates walk-forward and sliding window methods across various validation configurations and classifier types.
result Sliding window method consistently yields higher precision-recall scores and reduced fold-to-fold performance variance, particularly for deep learning models.

New method detects anomalies in time series data, especially useful for monitoring services.

problem Detecting anomalies in time series data, especially for monitoring services and cloud resources.
method Models time series of probability distributions over real values, scales to millions of time series.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting anomalies on various data sets.

We tackle anomaly detection in sparse time series data.

problem Sparse time series with low signal-to-noise ratios and non-uniform performance.
method We introduce a novel generative procedure for benchmark datasets and demonstrate how anomaly score smoothing improves performance.
result Anomaly score smoothing consistently improves performance in low-count time series anomaly detection.

During the past decade, many anomaly detection approaches have been introduced in different fields such as network monitoring, fraud detection, and intrusion detection. However, they require understanding of data pattern and often need a long off-line period to build a model or network for the target data. Providing re…

2020-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Mechanical devices such as engines, vehicles, aircrafts, etc., are typically instrumented with numerous sensors to capture the behavior and health of the machine. However, there are often external factors or variables which are not captured by sensors leading to time-series which are inherently unpredictable. For insta…

2016-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

TadGAN detects anomalies in time series data using GANs and LSTM.

problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in time series data, especially without labeled data.
method TadGAN uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks to capture temporal correlations and compute anomaly scores.
result TadGAN outperforms 8 baseline methods in most cases, achieving the highest averaged F1 score.

ReGEN-TAD detects anomalies in financial time series with interpretable models.

problem Detecting anomalies in complex financial time series with high-dimensional data.
method Integrates machine learning with econometric diagnostics in a refined convolutional--transformer architecture.
result Unified anomaly score without labeled data, robust to structured deviations.

Proposes a transformer-based approach for anomaly detection in time series data.

problem Inadequate evaluation metrics and inability to capture temporal features in time series anomaly detection.
method Introduces a proper evaluation metric and proposes a transformer-based approach for anomaly detection in time series data.
result Transformer-based approach outperforms state-of-the-art detectors in detecting sequential anomalies.

CrossAD detects anomalies in time series data by considering cross-scale associations and cross-window modeling.

problem Anomaly detection in time series data is challenging due to varying patterns at different scales and fixed window sizes.
method CrossAD incorporates cross-scale reconstruction and a query library to capture dynamic cross-scale associations and comprehensive context.
result CrossAD achieves state-of-the-art performance in anomaly detection across multiple real-world datasets.

The paper proposes a method to generate diverse counterfactual explanations for anomaly detection in time series data.

problem Lack of helpful explanations for anomaly detection models in time series data.
method Model-agnostic algorithm that generates diverse counterfactual examples for anomaly detection models.
result The method produces counterfactual examples that are not considered anomalous by the detection model and satisfy validity, plausibility, and closeness criteria.

Large companies need to monitor various metrics (for example, Page Views and Revenue) of their applications and services in real time. At Microsoft, we develop a time-series anomaly detection service which helps customers to monitor the time-series continuously and alert for potential incidents on time. In this paper, …

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new VAE framework for anomaly detection in time series data.

problem Data scarcity leads to latent holes and discontinuous regions in latent space, causing non-robust reconstructions.
method Combines VAEs with self-supervised learning to address data scarcity and improve anomaly detection.
result Improves robustness of anomaly detection in time series data by addressing latent holes and discontinuities.

Recent anomaly detection benchmarks are flawed, potentially misleading progress.

problem Flawed benchmark datasets create misleading progress reports.
method Identified four flaws in benchmark datasets and introduced a new archive.
result Published comparisons may be unreliable due to flaws in benchmark datasets.

AER combines auto-encoder and LSTM for better time series anomaly detection.

problem Anomaly detection in time series data with limited labeled data and ambiguous definitions.
method AER (Auto-Encoder with Regression) integrates auto-encoder and LSTM for joint predictions and reconstructions.
result AER achieves the highest F1 score across 12 datasets with comparable runtime.

Since with massive data growth, the need for autonomous and generic anomaly detection system is increased. However, developing one stand-alone generic anomaly detection system that is accurate and fast is still a challenge. In this paper, we propose conventional time-series analysis approaches, the Seasonal Autoregress…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

TPA-AD detects axle-box bearing anomalies using pseudo anomalies near normal boundaries.

problem Detecting axle-box bearing anomalies with only normal training data.
method Two-stage approach: pseudo anomalies, contrastive learning, KNN.
result Improves anomaly detection separability and sensitivity to degradation.

ProtoX-AD: A self-explainable time series anomaly detection framework

problem Lack of explainability in self-supervised time series anomaly detection
method Learning transformation-aware latent representations and interpretable prototypes
result Achieves detection performance comparable to black-box methods while offering more consistent and semantically meaningful explanations