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Time-series anomaly detection plays an important role in engineering processes, like development, manufacturing and other operations involving dynamic systems. These processes can greatly benefit from advances in the field, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lucas Correia , Jan-Christoph Goos , Philipp Klein , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

Periodicity detection is an important task in time series analysis, but still a challenging problem due to the diverse characteristics of time series data like abrupt trend change, outlier, noise, and especially block missing data. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Qingsong Wen , Linxiao Yang , Liang Sun

Time series anomaly detection has been recognized as of critical importance for the reliable and efficient operation of real-world systems. Many anomaly detection methods have been developed based on various assumptions on anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jiuqi Elise Zhang , Di Wu , Benoit Boulet

We present a method that allows to distinguish between nearly periodic and strictly periodic time series. To this purpose, we employ a conservative criterion for periodicity, namely that the time series can be interpolated by a periodic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-11-11 Gerrit Ansmann

Observations in data which are significantly different from its neighbouring points but cannot be classified as noise are known as anomalies or outliers. These anomalies are a cause of concern and a timely warning about their presence could…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-09 Krishnam Kapoor

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. From the modeling point of view, to be of some utility, the community structure must be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Irregularly sampled time series data arise naturally in many application domains including biology, ecology, climate science, astronomy, and health. Such data represent fundamental challenges to many classical models from machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Satya Narayan Shukla , Benjamin M. Marlin

The core challenge in unsupervised anomaly detection is identifying abnormal patterns without prior knowledge of their characteristics. While existing methods have addressed aspects of this problem, they often struggle to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , Nicholas G. Murray , Alireza Tavakkoli

The objective of change-point detection is to discover abrupt property changes lying behind time-series data. In this paper, we present a novel statistical change-point detection algorithm based on non-parametric divergence estimation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-20 Song Liu , Makoto Yamada , Nigel Collier , Masashi Sugiyama

Advances in sensor technology have enabled the collection of large-scale datasets. Such datasets can be extremely noisy and often contain a significant amount of outliers that result from sensor malfunction or human operation faults. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Zhenhui Li , Daniel Kifer

Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying interesting or concerning events. In this work, we develop and examine new probabilistic anomaly detection methods that let us evaluate management decisions for a specific patient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Milos Hauskrecht , Michal Valko , Branislav Kveton , Shyam Visweswaran , Gregory Cooper

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-13 Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

Most recent studies on detecting and localizing temporal anomalies have mainly employed deep neural networks to learn the normal patterns of temporal data in an unsupervised manner. Unlike them, the goal of our work is to fully utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dongha Lee , Sehun Yu , Hyunjun Ju , Hwanjo Yu

Low-count time series describe sparse or intermittent events, which are prevalent in large-scale online platforms that capture and monitor diverse data types. Several distinct challenges surface when modelling low-count time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Philipp Renz , Kurt Cutajar , Niall Twomey , Gavin K. C. Cheung , Hanting Xie

Anomaly detection on time series is a fundamental task in monitoring the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of IT systems. Many of the existing approaches in the literature show good performance while requiring a lot of training resources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shi-Ying Lan , Run-Qing Chen , Wan-Lei Zhao

Time series anomaly detection has garnered considerable attention across diverse domains. While existing methods often fail to capture the underlying mechanisms behind anomaly generation in time series data. In addition, time series anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yutong Xia , Yingying Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Lunting Fan , Qingsong Wen , Roger Zimmermann

Time series anomaly detection is important in modern large-scale systems and is applied in a variety of domains to analyze and monitor the operation of diverse systems. Unsupervised approaches have received widespread interest, as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Buang Zhang , Tung Kieu , Xiangfei Qiu , Chenjuan Guo , Jilin Hu , Aoying Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Bin Yang

Univariate time series (UTS), where each timestamp records a single variable, serve as crucial indicators in web systems and cloud servers. Anomaly detection in UTS plays an essential role in both data mining and system reliability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lingpei Zhang , Qingming Li , Yong Yang , Jiahao Chen , Rui Zeng , Chenyang Lyu , Shouling Ji

Time series analysis is a field of data science which is interested in analyzing sequences of numerical values ordered in time. Time series are particularly interesting because they allow us to visualize and understand the evolution of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Hassan Ismail Fawaz

Industrial time-series data from real production environments exhibits substantially higher complexity than commonly used benchmark datasets, primarily due to heterogeneous, multi-stage operational processes. As a result, anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sergej Krasnikov , Lukas Meitz , Samineh Bagheri , Michael Heider , Thorsten Schöler , Jörg Hähner