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Log anomaly detection (LAD) is essential to ensure safe and stable operation of software systems. Although current LAD methods exhibit significant potential in addressing challenges posed by unstable log events and temporal sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiyu Tian , Mingchu Li , Zumin Wang , Liming Chen , Jing Qin , Runfa Zhang

Real-time lightweight time series anomaly detection has become increasingly crucial in cybersecurity and many other domains. Its ability to adapt to unforeseen pattern changes and swiftly identify anomalies enables prompt responses and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin , Sokratis Katsikas

We apply several machine learning algorithms to the problem of anomaly detection in operational data for large-scale, high-voltage electric power grids. We observe important differences in the performance of the algorithms. Neural networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Marc Gillioz , Guillaume Dubuis , Étienne Voutaz , Philippe Jacquod

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Georgios Anyfantis , Pere Barlet-Ros

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Anomaly detection is to recognize samples that differ in some respect from the training observations. These samples which do not conform to the distribution of normal data are called outliers or anomalies. In real-world anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

The accumulation of time-series signals and the absence of labels make time-series Anomaly Detection (AD) a self-supervised task of deep learning. Methods based on normality assumptions face the following three limitations: (1) A single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xudong Mou , Rui Wang , Bo Li , Tianyu Wo , Jie Sun , Hui Wang , Xudong Liu

Training in unsupervised time series anomaly detection is constantly plagued by the discrimination between harmful `anomaly contaminations' and beneficial `hard normal samples'. These two samples exhibit analogous loss behavior that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ruyi Zhang , Hongzuo Xu , Songlei Jian , Yusong Tan , Haifang Zhou , Rulin Xu

Human intuition allows to detect abnormal driving scenarios in situations they never experienced before. Like humans detect those abnormal situations and take countermeasures to prevent collisions, self-driving cars need anomaly detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Julian Wiederer , Julian Schmidt , Ulrich Kressel , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis

While the mainstream research in anomaly detection has mainly followed the one-class classification, practical industrial environments often incur noisy training data due to annotation errors or lack of labels for new or refurbished…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiin Im , Yongho Son , Je Hyeong Hong

Inspired by the success of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing, recent research has explored the building of time series foundation models and applied them to tasks such as forecasting, classification, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chihiro Maru , Shoetsu Sato

Deep learning has seen increasing applications in time series in recent years. For time series anomaly detection scenarios, such as in finance, Internet of Things, data center operations, etc., time series usually show very flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Cheng Ge , Xi Chen , Ming Wang , Jin Wang

Disentangling complex causal relationships is important for accurate detection of anomalies. In multivariate time series analysis, dynamic interactions among data variables over time complicate the interpretation of causal relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wonah Kim , Jeonghyeon Park , Dongsan Jun , Jungkyu Han , Sejin Chun

Learning from visual observations is a fundamental yet challenging problem in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Although algorithmic advances combined with convolutional neural networks have proved to be a recipe for success, current methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Michael Laskin , Kimin Lee , Adam Stooke , Lerrel Pinto , Pieter Abbeel , Aravind Srinivas

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) plays a crucial role in various industries by identifying atypical patterns that deviate from standard trends, thereby maintaining system integrity and enabling prompt response measures. Traditional TSAD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jun Liu , Chaoyun Zhang , Jiaxu Qian , Minghua Ma , Si Qin , Chetan Bansal , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers significant promise for machinery fault detection (MFD). However, most existing RL-based MFD approaches do not fully exploit RL's sequential decision-making strengths, often treating MFD as a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dhiraj Neupane , Richard Dazeley , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Benchmarking anomaly detection approaches for multivariate time series is a challenging task due to a lack of high-quality datasets. Current publicly available datasets are too small, not diverse and feature trivial anomalies, which hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lucas Correia , Jan-Christoph Goos , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

Semi-supervised anomaly detection (AD) has shown great promise by effectively leveraging limited labeled data. However, existing methods are typically structured around scoring individual points or simple pairs. Such {point- or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianling Gao , Chongyang Tao , Xuelian Lin , Junfeng Liu , Shuai Ma

Robust anomaly detection is a requirement for monitoring complex modern systems with applications such as cyber-security, fraud prevention, and maintenance. These systems generate multiple correlated time series that are highly seasonal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Zhewen Fan