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Advancements in deep learning techniques have given a boost to the performance of anomaly detection. However, real-world and safety-critical applications demand a level of transparency and reasoning beyond accuracy. The task of anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Laya Rafiee Sevyeri , Ivaxi Sheth , Farhood Farahnak , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Shirin Abbasinejad Enger

The current state of machine learning scholarship in Timeseries Anomaly Detection (TAD) is plagued by the persistent use of flawed evaluation metrics, inconsistent benchmarking practices, and a lack of proper justification for the choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Mei-Yen Chen , Lukas Layer , Kunyu Peng , Marios Koulakis

Neural networks, with powerful nonlinear mapping and classification capabilities, are widely applied in mechanical fault diagnosis to ensure safety. However, being typical black-box models, their application is limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Qian Chen , Xingjian Dong , Zhike Peng

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

Tabular anomaly detection, which aims at identifying deviant samples, has been crucial in a variety of real-world applications, such as medical disease identification, financial fraud detection, intrusion monitoring, etc. Although recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ruiying Lu , Jinhan Liu , Chuan Du , Dandan Guo

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a critical task, but developing models that generalize to unseen data in a zero-shot manner remains a major challenge. Prevailing foundation models for TSAD predominantly rely on reconstruction-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tian Lan , Hao Duong Le , Jinbo Li , Wenjun He , Meng Wang , Chenghao Liu , Chen Zhang

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is an important data mining task with numerous applications in the IoT era. In recent years, a large number of deep neural network-based methods have been proposed, demonstrating significantly better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wenkai Li , Cheng Feng , Ting Chen , Jun Zhu

Time series anomaly detection plays a critical role in a wide range of real-world applications. Among unsupervised approaches, self-supervised learning has gained traction for modeling normal behavior without the need of labeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Aitor Sánchez-Ferrera , Usue Mori , Borja Calvo , Jose A. Lozano

Anomaly detection (AD) plays an important role in numerous applications. We focus on two understudied aspects of AD that are critical for integration into real-world applications. First, most AD methods cannot incorporate labeled data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chun-Hao Chang , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan Arik , Madeleine Udell , Tomas Pfister

Ensuring both transparency and safety is critical when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in high-risk applications, such as medicine. The field of explainable AI (XAI) has proposed various methods to comprehend the decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Maximilian Dreyer , Reduan Achtibat , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin

Time series foundational models (TSFM) have gained prominence in time series forecasting, promising state-of-the-art performance across various applications. However, their application in anomaly detection and prediction remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chathurangi Shyalika , Harleen Kaur Bagga , Ahan Bhatt , Renjith Prasad , Alaa Al Ghazo , Amit Sheth

Deep neural networks that yield human interpretable decisions by architectural design have lately become an increasingly popular alternative to post hoc interpretation of traditional black-box models. Among these networks, the arguably most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Adrian Hoffmann , Claudio Fanconi , Rahul Rade , Jonas Kohler

Most deep anomaly detection models are based on learning normality from datasets due to the difficulty of defining abnormality by its diverse and inconsistent nature. Therefore, it has been a common practice to learn normality under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Minkyung Kim , Jongmin Yu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jun Kyun Choi

From a safety perspective, a machine learning method embedded in real-world applications is required to distinguish irregular situations. For this reason, there has been a growing interest in the anomaly detection (AD) task. Since we cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 JuneKyu Park , Jeong-Hyeon Moon , Namhyuk Ahn , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Time-series anomaly detection plays a vital role in monitoring complex operation conditions. However, the detection accuracy of existing approaches is heavily influenced by pattern distribution, existence of multiple normal patterns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Min Hu , Yi Wang , Xiaowei Feng , Shengchen Zhou , Zhaoyu Wu , Yuan Qin

Deep learning for time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) has gained significant attention over the past decade. Despite the reported improvements in several papers, the practical application of these models remains limited. Recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Alex Koran , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

This paper addresses the problem of detecting time series outliers, focusing on systems with repetitive behavior, such as industrial robots operating on production lines.Notable challenges arise from the fact that a task performed multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Charlotte Lacoquelle , Xavier Pucel , Louise Travé-Massuyès , Axel Reymonet , Benoît Enaux

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

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

Anomaly detection is an important field that aims to identify unexpected patterns or data points, and it is closely related to many real-world problems, particularly to applications in finance, manufacturing, cyber security, and so on.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Sheo Yon Jhin , Jaehoon Lee , Noseong Park