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Anomalies refer to data points or events that deviate from normal and homogeneous events, which can include fraudulent activities, network infiltrations, equipment malfunctions, process changes, or other significant but infrequent events.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed

Anomalies refer to the departure of systems and devices from their normal behaviour in standard operating conditions. An anomaly in an industrial device can indicate an upcoming failure, often in the temporal direction. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Snehanshu Saha , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Soma Dhavala , Santonu Sarkar , Preyank Mota

Automatic detection of anomalies in space- and time-varying measurements is an important tool in several fields, e.g., fraud detection, climate analysis, or healthcare monitoring. We present an algorithm for detecting anomalous regions in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-24 Björn Barz , Erik Rodner , Yanira Guanche Garcia , Joachim Denzler

Given the scarcity of anomalies in real-world applications, the majority of literature has been focusing on modeling normality. The learned representations enable anomaly detection as the normality model is trained to capture certain key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Feng Xue , Weizhong Yan

Today's cyber-world is vastly multivariate. Metrics collected at extreme varieties demand multivariate algorithms to properly detect anomalies. However, forecast-based algorithms, as widely proven approaches, often perform sub-optimally or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Lan Wang , Yusan Lin , Yuhang Wu , Huiyuan Chen , Fei Wang , Hao Yang

Anomaly detection is a branch of data analysis and machine learning which aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Romain Valla

Fine-grained time series data are crucial for accurate and timely online change detection. While both collective anomalies and change points can coexist in such data, their joint online detection has received limited attention. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-11 Xian Chen , Weichi Wu

Many real-world IoT systems, which include a variety of internet-connected sensory devices, produce substantial amounts of multivariate time series data. Meanwhile, vital IoT infrastructures like smart power grids and water distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zekai Chen , Dingshuo Chen , Xiao Zhang , Zixuan Yuan , Xiuzhen Cheng

Anomaly detection is an important problem in many application areas, such as network security. Many deep learning methods for unsupervised anomaly detection produce good empirical performance but lack theoretical guarantees. By casting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Tian-Yi Zhou , Matthew Lau , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

We investigate anomaly detection in an unsupervised framework and introduce Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural network based algorithms. In particular, given variable length data sequences, we first pass these sequences through our LSTM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Tolga Ergen , Ali Hassan Mirza , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Abilasha S , Sahely Bhadra , Deepak P , Anish Mathew

In this paper we propose a novel machine-learning method for anomaly detection applicable to data with periodic characteristics where randomly varying period lengths are explicitly allowed. A multi-dimensional time series analysis is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Lia Ahrens , Julian Ahrens , Hans D. Schotten

Anomaly detection significantly enhances the robustness of cloud systems. While neural network-based methods have recently demonstrated strong advantages, they encounter practical challenges in cloud environments: the contradiction between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Feiyi Chen , Yingying zhang , Zhen Qin , Lunting Fan , Renhe Jiang , Yuxuan Liang , Qingsong Wen , Shuiguang Deng

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series is essential across domains such as healthcare, cybersecurity, and industrial monitoring, yet remains fundamentally challenging due to high-dimensional dependencies, the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaona Zhou , Constantin Brif , Ismini Lourentzou

In line with the development of Industry 4.0, surface defect detection/anomaly detection becomes a topical subject in the industry field. Improving efficiency as well as saving labor costs has steadily become a matter of great concern in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Time series anomaly detection is crucial for maintaining stable systems. Existing methods face two main challenges. First, it is difficult to directly model the dependencies of diverse and complex patterns within the sequences. Second, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wenxin Zhang , Cuicui Luo

Anomaly detection is facing with emerging challenges in many important industry domains, such as cyber security and online recommendation and advertising. The recent trend in these areas calls for anomaly detection on time-evolving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Zheng Gao , Lin Guo , Chi Ma , Xiao Ma , Kai Sun , Hang Xiang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Hongsong Li , Xiaozhong Liu

In recent years, the emergence and development of third-party platforms have greatly facilitated the growth of the Online to Offline (O2O) business. However, the large amount of transaction data raises new challenges for retailers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xu Chen , Qiu Qiu , Changshan Li , Kunqing Xie

Time series anomaly detection is an important task, with applications in a broad variety of domains. Many approaches have been proposed in recent years, but often they require that the length of the anomalies be known in advance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin , Constantin Brif

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity in time series forecasting, but their potential for anomaly detection remains largely unexplored. Our study investigates whether LLMs can understand and detect anomalies in time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zihao Zhou , Rose Yu