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Despite the prevalence of reconstruction-based deep learning methods, time series anomaly detection remains a tremendous challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with limited temporal contexts, insufficient representation of normal…

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In practice, machine learning methods commonly require anomaly detection (AD) to filter inputs or detect distributional shifts. Typically, this is implemented by running a separate AD model alongside the primary model. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Hinkamp , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Unsupervised multivariate time series anomaly detection (UMTSAD) plays a critical role in various domains, including finance, networks, and sensor systems. In recent years, due to the outstanding performance of deep learning in general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Tiange Huang , Yongjun Li

This study addresses the problem of dynamic anomaly detection in accounting transactions and proposes a real-time detection method based on a Transformer to tackle the challenges of hidden abnormal behaviors and high timeliness requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yi Wang , Ruoyi Fang , Anzhuo Xie , Hanrui Feng , Jianlin Lai

Anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of web service systems. Logs and metrics contain multiple information that can reflect the system's operational state and potential anomalies. Thus, existing anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xixuan Yang , Xin Huang , Chiming Duan , Tong Jia , Shandong Dong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Anomaly detection in time series data is crucial across various domains. The scarcity of labeled data for such tasks has increased the attention towards unsupervised learning methods. These approaches, often relying solely on reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

Anomaly detection for time-series data becomes an essential task for many data-driven applications fueled with an abundance of data and out-of-the-box machine-learning algorithms. In many real-world settings, developing a reliable anomaly…

While anomaly detection in time series has been an active area of research for several years, most recent approaches employ an inadequate evaluation criterion leading to an inflated F1 score. We show that a rudimentary Random Guess method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Keval Doshi , Shatha Abudalou , Yasin Yilmaz

Time series anomaly detection plays a crucial role in a wide range of real-world applications. Given that time series data can exhibit different patterns at different sampling granularities, multi-scale modeling has proven beneficial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Beibu Li , Qichao Shentu , Yang Shu , Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Ning Jin , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in time series applications, primarily because time series data is employed across real-world scenarios. Detecting anomalies poses significant challenges since anomalies take diverse forms making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jihan Ghanim , Mariette Awad

The ongoing challenges in time series anomaly detection (TSAD), notably the scarcity of anomaly labels and the variability in anomaly lengths and shapes, have led to the need for a more efficient solution. As limited anomaly labels hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yuting Sun , Guansong Pang , Guanhua Ye , Tong Chen , Xia Hu , Hongzhi Yin

Training a unified model is considered to be more suitable for practical industrial anomaly detection scenarios due to its generalization ability and storage efficiency. However, this multi-class setting, which exclusively uses normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jianlong Hu , Xu Chen , Zhenye Gan , Jinlong Peng , Shengchuan Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

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

In recent years, rapid technological advancements and expanded Internet access have led to a significant rise in anomalies within network traffic and time-series data. Prompt detection of these irregularities is crucial for ensuring service…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahshid Rezakhani , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Multivariate time series anomalies often manifest as shifts in cross-channel dependencies rather than simple amplitude excursions. In autonomous driving, for instance, a steering command might be internally consistent but decouple from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kadir-Kaan Özer , René Ebeling , Markus Enzweiler

In time series anomaly detection (TSAD), the scarcity of labeled data poses a challenge to the development of accurate models. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) offers a solution by leveraging labeled data from a related domain to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zahra Zamanzadeh Darban , Yiyuan Yang , Geoffrey I. Webb , Charu C. Aggarwal , Qingsong Wen , Shirui Pan , Mahsa Salehi

Performing anomaly detection in hybrid systems is a challenging task since it requires analysis of timing behavior and mutual dependencies of both discrete and continuous signals. Typically, it requires modeling system behavior, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Nemanja Hranisavljevic , Oliver Niggemann , Alexander Maier

Time series anomaly detection plays a vital role in a wide range of applications. Existing methods require training one specific model for each dataset, which exhibits limited generalization capability across different target datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Qichao Shentu , Beibu Li , Kai Zhao , Yang Shu , Zhongwen Rao , Lujia Pan , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo

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

With the recent advances in technology, a wide range of systems continue to collect a large amount of data over time and thus generate time series. Time-Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) is an important task in various time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Ali Karami , Narges Armanfard