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Time series anomalies can offer information relevant to critical situations facing various fields, from finance and aerospace to the IT, security, and medical domains. However, detecting anomalies in time series data is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Alexander Geiger , Dongyu Liu , Sarah Alnegheimish , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

The development of causal prediction models is challenged by the fact that the outcome is only observable for the applied (factual) intervention and not for its alternatives (the so-called counterfactuals); in medicine we only know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Stefan Schrod , Fabian Sinz , Michael Altenbuchinger

The accumulation of time-series signals and the absence of labels make time-series Anomaly Detection (AD) a self-supervised task of deep learning. Methods based on normality assumptions face the following three limitations: (1) A single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xudong Mou , Rui Wang , Bo Li , Tianyu Wo , Jie Sun , Hui Wang , Xudong Liu

In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by…

Anomaly detection in time series is a complex task that has been widely studied. In recent years, the ability of unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms has received much attention. This trend has led researchers to compare only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Julien Audibert , Pietro Michiardi , Frédéric Guyard , Sébastien Marti , Maria A. Zuluaga

Reliable detection of anomalies is crucial when deploying machine learning models in practice, but remains challenging due to the lack of labeled data. To tackle this challenge, contrastive learning approaches are becoming increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Puck de Haan , Sindy Löwe

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

The emergence of deep learning led to the broad usage of neural networks in the time series domain for various applications, including finance and medicine. While powerful, these models are prone to adversarial attacks: a benign targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Petr Sokerin , Dmitry Anikin , Sofia Krehova , Alexey Zaytsev

Anomalies in univariate time series often refer to abnormal values and deviations from the temporal patterns from majority of historical observations. In multivariate time series, anomalies also refer to abnormal changes in the inter-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Katrina Chen , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto

This paper investigates unsupervised anomaly detection in multivariate time-series data using reinforcement learning (RL) in the latent space of an autoencoder. A significant challenge is the limited availability of anomalous data, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

Anomaly subsequence detection is to detect inconsistent data, which always contains important information, among time series. Due to the high dimensionality of the time series, traditional anomaly detection often requires a large time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chunkai Zhang , Yingyang Chen , Ao Yin

Several techniques for multivariate time series anomaly detection have been proposed recently, but a systematic comparison on a common set of datasets and metrics is lacking. This paper presents a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Astha Garg , Wenyu Zhang , Jules Samaran , Savitha Ramasamy , Chuan-Sheng Foo

In this paper, we investigate algorithms for anomaly detection. Previous anomaly detection methods focus on modeling the distribution of non-anomalous data provided during training. However, this does not necessarily ensure the correct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ziyi Yang , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi , Eric Darve

Effective anomaly detection in time series is pivotal for modern industrial applications and financial systems. Due to the scarcity of anomaly labels and the high cost of manual labeling, reconstruction-based unsupervised approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tiejun Wang , Rui Wang , Xudong Mou , Mengyuan Ma , Tianyu Wo , Renyu Yang , Xudong Liu

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in many safety-critical application domains. The challenge of adapting an anomaly detector to drift in the normal data distribution, especially when no training data is available for the "new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Anomaly detection - identifying deviations from Standard Model predictions - is a key challenge at the Large Hadron Collider due to the size and complexity of its datasets. This is typically addressed by transforming high-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-03 Kyle Metzger , Lana Xu , Mia Sodini , Thea K. Arrestad , Katya Govorkova , Gaia Grosso , Philip Harris

This paper addresses the increasingly prominent problem of anomaly detection in distributed systems. It proposes a detection method based on federated contrastive learning. The goal is to overcome the limitations of traditional centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Renzi Meng , Heyi Wang , Yumeng Sun , Qiyuan Wu , Lian Lian , Renhan Zhang

Most of the existing methods for anomaly detection use only positive data to learn the data distribution, thus they usually need a pre-defined threshold at the detection stage to determine whether a test instance is an outlier.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kai Tian , Shuigeng Zhou , Jianping Fan , Jihong Guan

Anomaly detection suffered from the lack of anomalies due to the diversity of abnormalities and the difficulties of obtaining large-scale anomaly data. Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods are often used to solely leverage normal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Shi , Ni Zhang

Contrastive learning demonstrates great promise for representation learning. Data augmentations play a critical role in contrastive learning by providing informative views of the data without necessitating explicit labels. Nonetheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Zihu Wang , Yu Wang , Zhuotong Chen , Hanbin Hu , Peng Li