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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

Hacking and false data injection from adversaries can threaten power grids' everyday operations and cause significant economic loss. Anomaly detection in power grids aims to detect and discriminate anomalies caused by cyber attacks against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xijuan Sun , Di Wu , Arnaud Zinflou , Benoit Boulet

Log messages record important system runtime information and are useful for detecting anomalous behaviors and managing modern software systems. Many supervised and unsupervised learning methods have been proposed recently for log-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yiyuan Xiong , Shaofeng Cai

Online sensing plays an important role in advancing modern manufacturing. The real-time sensor signals, which can be stored as high-resolution time series data, contain rich information about the operation status. One of its popular usages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Frida Cantu , Salomon Ibarra , Arturo Gonzales , Jesus Barreda , Chenang Liu , Li Zhang

System logs are a critical resource for monitoring and managing distributed systems, providing insights into failures and anomalous behavior. Traditional log analysis techniques, including template-based and sequence-driven approaches,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anfeng Peng , Ajesh Koyatan Chathoth , Stephen Lee

Network log data analysis plays a critical role in detecting security threats and operational anomalies. Traditional log analysis methods for anomaly detection and root cause analysis rely heavily on expert knowledge or fully supervised…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xuanhao Luo , Shivesh Madan Nath Jha , Akruti Sinha , Zhizhen Li , Yuchen Liu

Recent efforts towards video anomaly detection (VAD) try to learn a deep autoencoder to describe normal event patterns with small reconstruction errors. The video inputs with large reconstruction errors are regarded as anomalies at the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yuandu Lai , Yahong Han , Yaowei Wang

In data systems, activities or events are continuously collected in the field to trace their proper executions. Logging, which means recording sequences of events, can be used for analyzing system failures and malfunctions, and identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tomer Meirman , Roni Stern , Gilad Katz

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

In critical applications of anomaly detection including computer security and fraud prevention, the anomaly detector must be configurable by the analyst to minimize the effort on false positives. One important way to configure the anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Shubhomoy Das , Md Rakibul Islam , Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Anomaly detection often relies on supervised or clustering approaches, with limited success in specialized domains like automotive communication systems where scalable solutions are essential. We propose a novel decoder-only Large Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Bogdan Bogdan , Arina Cazacu , Laura Vasilie

This paper describes a methodology for detecting anomalies from sequentially observed and potentially noisy data. The proposed approach consists of two main elements: (1) {\em filtering}, or assigning a belief or likelihood to each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maxim Raginsky , Rebecca Willett , Corinne Horn , Jorge Silva , Roummel Marcia

This paper introduces an automated fault analysis framework for the Advanced Light Source (ALS) that processes real-time event logs from its EPICS control system. By treating log entries as natural language, we transform them into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Antonin Sulc , Thorsten Hellert , Steven Hunt

In response to the demand for higher computational power, the number of computing nodes in high performance computers (HPC) increases rapidly. Exascale HPC systems are expected to arrive by 2020. With drastic increase in the number of HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

Logs are widely used in the development and maintenance of software systems. Logs can help engineers understand the runtime behavior of systems and diagnose system failures. For anomaly diagnosis, existing methods generally use log event…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Haitian Yang , Degang Sun , Wen Liu , Yanshu Li , Yan Wang , Weiqing Huang

Learning to detect fraud in large-scale accounting data is one of the long-standing challenges in financial statement audits or fraud investigations. Nowadays, the majority of applied techniques refer to handcrafted rules derived from known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Marco Schreyer , Timur Sattarov , Damian Borth , Andreas Dengel , Bernd Reimer

Detecting anomalies in discrete event logs is critical for ensuring system reliability, security, and efficiency. Traditional window-based methods for log anomaly detection often suffer from context bias and fuzzy localization, which hinder…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiaxing Qi , Chang Zeng , Zhongzhi Luan , Shaohan Huang , Shu Yang , Yao Lu , Hailong Yang , Depei Qian

Log analysis is an important technique that engineers use for troubleshooting faults of large-scale service-oriented systems. In this study, we propose a novel semi-supervised log-based anomaly detection approach, LogDP, which utilizes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar , Sha Lu

Anomaly detection in computational workflows is critical for ensuring system reliability and security. However, traditional rule-based methods struggle to detect novel anomalies. This paper leverages large language models (LLMs) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hongwei Jin , George Papadimitriou , Krishnan Raghavan , Pawel Zuk , Prasanna Balaprakash , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman