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One main challenge in time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is the lack of labelled data in many real-life scenarios. Most of the existing anomaly detection methods focus on learning the normal behaviour of unlabelled time series in an…

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The widespread adoption of digital services, along with the scale and complexity at which they operate, has made incidents in IT operations increasingly more likely, diverse, and impactful. This has led to the rapid development of a central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Vincent Jacob , Yanlei Diao

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) plays a vital role in various domains such as healthcare, networks, and industry. Considering labels are crucial for detection but difficult to obtain, we turn to TSAD with inexact supervision: only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chen Liu , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Shizhong Li

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 is a challenging problem due to the complex temporal dependencies and the limited label data. Although some algorithms including both traditional and deep models have been proposed, most of them mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chaoli Zhang , Tian Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

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

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

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) has long been a hot research topic in data mining due to its various applications. Recent studies challenge the effectiveness of popular deep learning methods for TSAD, suggesting their failure in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qideng Tang , Dai Chaofan , Wubin Ma , Yahui Wu , Haohao Zhou , Tao Zhang , Huan Li , Dalin Zhang

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a vital role across a wide range of real-world domains by identifying data instances that deviate from expected patterns, potentially signaling critical events such as system failures, fraudulent activities, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Amirhossein Sadough , Mahyar Shahsavari , Mark Wijtvliet , Marcel van Gerven

In recent years, proposed studies on time-series anomaly detection (TAD) report high F1 scores on benchmark TAD datasets, giving the impression of clear improvements in TAD. However, most studies apply a peculiar evaluation protocol called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Siwon Kim , Kukjin Choi , Hyun-Soo Choi , Byunghan Lee , Sungroh Yoon

This paper introduces the first fully unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) framework for unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD). The performance of UAD techniques degrades significantly in the presence of a domain shift, difficult to avoid in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Nesryne Mejri , Enjie Ghorbel , Anis Kacem , Pavel Chernakov , Niki Foteinopoulou , Djamila Aouada

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

3D object detection is crucial for applications like autonomous driving and robotics. However, in real-world environments, variations in sensor data distribution due to sensor upgrades, weather changes, and geographic differences can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yecheol Kim , Junho Lee , Changsoo Park , Hyoung won Kim , Inho Lim , Christopher Chang , Jun Won Choi

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

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Time-series anomaly detection is an important task and has been widely applied in the industry. Since manual data annotation is expensive and inefficient, most applications adopt unsupervised anomaly detection methods, but the results are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hong Guo , Yujing Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Zhengjie Lin , Yunhai Tong , Lei Yang , Luoxing Xiong , Congrui Huang

Semi-supervised anomaly detection for sensor signals is critical in ensuring system reliability in smart manufacturing. However, existing methods rely heavily on data correlation, neglecting causality and leading to potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xiangwei Chen , Ruliang Xiaoa , Zhixia Zeng , Zhipeng Qiu , Shi Zhang , Xin Du

Anomaly detection is facing with emerging challenges in many important industry domains, such as cyber security and online recommendation and advertising. The recent trend in these areas calls for anomaly detection on time-evolving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Zheng Gao , Lin Guo , Chi Ma , Xiao Ma , Kai Sun , Hang Xiang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Hongsong Li , Xiaozhong Liu

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in various domains, including cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare, by identifying patterns or events that deviate from normal behaviour. In recent years, significant progress has been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hadi Hojjati , Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

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