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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

The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Anomaly Detection in multivariate time series is a major problem in many fields. Due to their nature, anomalies sparsely occur in real data, thus making the task of anomaly detection a challenging problem for classification algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anastasios Iliopoulos , John Violos , Christos Diou , Iraklis Varlamis

On-line detection of anomalies in time series is a key technique used in various event-sensitive scenarios such as robotic system monitoring, smart sensor networks and data center security. However, the increasing diversity of data sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Yi Su , Yuhua Cui , Carsten Maple , Stephen Jarvis

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

Recent advances in technology have brought major breakthroughs in data collection, enabling a large amount of data to be gathered over time and thus generating time series. Mining this data has become an important task for researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ane Blázquez-García , Angel Conde , Usue Mori , Jose A. Lozano

We address the problem of data-driven pattern identification and outlier detection in time series. To this end, we use singular value decomposition (SVD) which is a well-known technique to compute a low-rank approximation for an arbitrary…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-12 Abdolrahman Khoshrou , Eric J. Pauwels

Time series anomaly detection presents various challenges due to the sequential and dynamic nature of time-dependent data. Traditional unsupervised methods frequently encounter difficulties in generalization, often overfitting to known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-30 Aitor Sánchez-Ferrera , Borja Calvo , Jose A. Lozano

Achieving resilient and high-quality manufacturing requires reliable data-driven anomaly detection methods that are capable of addressing differences in behaviors among different individual machines which are nominally the same and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yangmeng Li , Kei Sano , Toshihiro Kitao , Ryoji Anzaki , Yukiya Saitoh , Hironori Moki , Dragan Djurdjanovic

Automated machine learning has been widely researched and adopted in the field of supervised classification and regression, but progress in unsupervised settings has been limited. We propose a novel approach to automate outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Time series data are often corrupted by outliers or other kinds of anomalies. Identifying the anomalous points can be a goal on its own (anomaly detection), or a means to improving performance of other time series tasks (e.g. forecasting).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 François-Xavier Aubet , Daniel Zügner , Jan Gasthaus

Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

As a substantial amount of multivariate time series data is being produced by the complex systems in Smart Manufacturing, improved anomaly detection frameworks are needed to reduce the operational risks and the monitoring burden placed on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tareq Tayeh , Sulaiman Aburakhia , Ryan Myers , Abdallah Shami

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

Unsupervised anomaly detection in time-series has been extensively investigated in the literature. Notwithstanding the relevance of this topic in numerous application fields, a comprehensive and extensive evaluation of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nesryne Mejri , Laura Lopez-Fuentes , Kankana Roy , Pavel Chernakov , Enjie Ghorbel , Djamila Aouada

In this work we perform outlier detection using ensembles of neural networks obtained by variational approximation of the posterior in a Bayesian neural network setting. The variational parameters are obtained by sampling from the true…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-25 Nick Pawlowski , Miguel Jaques , Ben Glocker

Concerning machine learning, segmentation models can identify state changes within time series, facilitating the detection of transitions between normal and anomalous conditions. Specific techniques such as Change Point Detection (CPD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Emilio Mastriani , Alessandro Costa , Federico Incardona , Kevin Munari , Sebastiano Spinello

Time series remains one of the most challenging modalities in machine learning research. The out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and generalization on time series tend to suffer due to its non-stationary property, i.e., the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Xinwei Sun , Yiqiang Chen , Xiangyang Ji , Qiang Yang , Xing Xie

It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Thomas Dietterich

The continued digitization of societal processes translates into a proliferation of time series data that cover applications such as fraud detection, intrusion detection, and energy management, where anomaly detection is often essential to…