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Causal discovery is a data-driven paradigm for analyzing complex systems, while physics-based models, such as ordinary differential equations (ODEs), provide mechanistic structure for real-world dynamical processes. Integrating these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jianhong Chen , Naichen Shi , Xubo Yue

Robust causal discovery in time series datasets depends on reliable benchmark datasets with known ground-truth causal relationships. However, such datasets remain scarce, and existing synthetic alternatives often overlook critical temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Muhammad Hasan Ferdous , Emam Hossain , Md Osman Gani

In this paper, Decentralized Periodic Approach for Adaptive Fault Diagnosis (DP-AFD) algorithm is proposed for fault diagnosis in distributed systems with arbitrary topology. Faulty nodes may be either unresponsive, may have either software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Latika Sarna , Sumedha Shenolikar , Poorva Kulkarni , Varsha Deshpande , Supriya Kelkar

Numerical time-series models can effectively process irregular electronic health record (EHR) trajectories, but they do not naturally expose the measurements and temporal patterns supporting each risk estimate as readable evidence. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kwanhyung Lee , Juhwan Choi , Jongheon Kim , Joohyung Lee , Hyeongwon Jang , Eunho Yang

In this document, we introduce a notion of entropy for stochastic processes on marked rooted graphs. For this, we employ the framework of local weak limit theory for sparse marked graphs, also known as the objective method, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

Why is a given node in a time-evolving graph ($t$-graph) marked as an anomaly by an off-the-shelf detection algorithm? Is it because of the number of its outgoing or incoming edges, or their timings? How can we best convince a human analyst…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Nikhil Gupta , Dhivya Eswaran , Neil Shah , Leman Akoglu , Christos Faloutsos

Our work focuses on anomaly detection in cyber-physical systems. Prior literature has three limitations: (1) Failing to capture long-delayed patterns in system anomalies; (2) Ignoring dynamic changes in sensor connections; (3) The curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ehtesamul Azim , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

To assist IT service developers and operators in managing their increasingly complex service landscapes, there is a growing effort to leverage artificial intelligence in operations. To speed up troubleshooting, log anomaly detection has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Odej Kao

IT infrastructure is a crucial part in most of today's business operations. High availability and reliability, and short response times to outages are essential. Thus a high amount of tool support and automation in risk management is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Joerg Schoenfisch , Janno von Stulpnagel , Jens Ortmann , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

We propose a data-driven framework to simplify the description of spatiotemporal climate variability into few entities and their causal linkages. Given a high-dimensional climate field, the methodology first reduces its dimensionality into…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Fabrizio Falasca , Pavel Perezhogin , Laure Zanna

The question whether a time series behaves as a random walk or as a station- ary process is an important and delicate problem, particularly arising in financial statistics, econometrics, and engineering. This paper studies the problem to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Ansgar Steland

This paper introduces a new causal structure learning method for nonstationary time series data, a common data type found in fields such as finance, economics, healthcare, and environmental science. Our work builds upon the constraint-based…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-10 Agathe Sadeghi , Achintya Gopal , Mohammad Fesanghary

A typical problem in causal modeling is the instability of model structure learning, i.e., small changes in finite data can result in completely different optimal models. The present work introduces a novel causal modeling algorithm for…

Many physical processes can be expressed through partial differential equations (PDEs). Real-world measurements of such processes are often collected at irregularly distributed points in space, which can be effectively represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jost Arndt , Utku Isil , Michael Detzel , Wojciech Samek , Jackie Ma

Biological foundation models have shown strong performance in single-cell representation learning by applying transformer architectures directly to gene-expression matrices. However, these approaches predominantly operate in static settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Manuel Dileo , Andrea Sottoriva

Process mining techniques can help organizations to improve their operational processes. Organizations can benefit from process mining techniques in finding and amending the root causes of performance or compliance problems. Considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mahnaz Sadat Qafari , Wil van der Aalst

In process monitoring, it is common for measurements to be taken regularly or randomly from different spatial locations in two or three dimensions. While there are nonparametric methods for process monitoring with such spatial data to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-06 Philipp Adämmer , Philipp Wittenberg , Christian H. Weiß , Murat Caner Testik

Localizing root causes for multi-dimensional data is critical to ensure online service systems' reliability. When a fault occurs, only the measure values within specific attribute combinations are abnormal. Such attribute combinations are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Zeyan Li , Junjie Chen , Yihao Chen , Chengyang Luo , Yiwei Zhao , Yongqian Sun , Kaixin Sui , Xiping Wang , Dapeng Liu , Xing Jin , Qi Wang , Dan Pei

We propose a method to search for signs of causal structure in spatiotemporal data making minimal a priori assumptions about the underlying dynamics. To this end, we generalize the elementary concept of recurrence for a point process in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-08 J. Davidsen , P. Grassberger , M. Paczuski

In many scenarios, it is necessary to monitor a complex system via a time-series of observations and determine when anomalous exogenous events have occurred so that relevant actions can be taken. Determining whether current observations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Alex Mallen , Christoph A. Keller , J. Nathan Kutz