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Microservice based systems underpin modern distributed computing environments but remain vulnerable to partial failures, cascading timeouts, and inconsistent recovery behavior. Although numerous resilience and recovery patterns have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Muzeeb Mohammad

Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source is clean, i.e., features and labels are correctly set.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Rui Han , Bogdan Robu , Sara Bouchenak , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Lydia Y. Chen

Anomaly detection is widely used for identifying critical errors and suspicious behaviors, but current methods lack interpretability. We leverage common properties of existing methods and recent advances in generative models to introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xiayan Ji , Anton Xue , Eric Wong , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

The active growth and dynamic nature of cellular networks makes network troubleshooting challenging. Identification of network problems leveraging on machine learning has gained a lot of visibility in the past few years, resulting in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mohamed Moulay , Rafael Garcia Leiva , Pablo J. Rojo Maroni , Vincenzo Mancuso , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Ali Safari Khatouni

Anomalies represent deviations from the intended system operation and can lead to decreased efficiency as well as partial or complete system failure. As the causes of anomalies are often unknown due to complex system dynamics, efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Lindemann , Benjamin Maschler , Nada Sahlab , Michael Weyrich

Identifying the underlying reason for a failing dynamic process or otherwise anomalous observation is a fundamental challenge, yet has numerous industrial applications. Identifying the failure-causing sub-system using causal inference, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Juliane Weilbach , Sebastian Gerwinn , Karim Barsim , Martin Fränzle

Identifying root causes of anomalies in causal processes is vital across disciplines. Once identified, one can isolate the root causes and implement necessary measures to restore the normal operation. Causal processes are often modelled as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Phuoc Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Sunil Gupta , Thin Nguyen , Svetha Venkatesh

Log-based fault diagnosis is essential for maintaining software system availability. However, existing fault diagnosis methods are built using a task-independent manner, which fails to bridge the gap between anomaly detection and root cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Minghua He , Chiming Duan , Pei Xiao , Tong Jia , Siyu Yu , Lingzhe Zhang , Weijie Hong , Jin Han , Yifan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Many social and economic systems can be represented as attributed networks encoding the relations between entities who are themselves described by different node attributes. Finding anomalies in these systems is crucial for detecting abuses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez , Alexandre Bovet , Jean-Charles Delvenne

Fault localization is challenging in an online service system due to its monitoring data's large volume and variety and complex dependencies across or within its components (e.g., services or databases). Furthermore, engineers require fault…

Due to a wide spectrum of applications in the real world, such as security, financial surveillance, and health risk, various deep anomaly detection models have been proposed and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, besides being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xiao Han , Lu Zhang , Yongkai Wu , Shuhan Yuan

Case Based Reasoning (CBR) is an intelligent way of thinking based on experience and capitalization of already solved cases (source cases) to find a solution to a new problem (target case). Retrieval phase consists on identifying source…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Ibrahim El Bitar , Fatima-Zahra Belouadha , Ounsa Roudies

Proactive failure detection of instances is vitally essential to microservice systems because an instance failure can propagate to the whole system and degrade the system's performance. Over the years, many single-modal (i.e., metrics,…

We propose an approach based on machine learning to solve two-stage linear adaptive robust optimization (ARO) problems with binary here-and-now variables and polyhedral uncertainty sets. We encode the optimal here-and-now decisions, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dimitris Bertsimas , Cheol Woo Kim

Foundation model reliability assessment typically requires thousands of evaluation examples, making it computationally expensive and time-consuming for real-world deployment. We introduce microprobe, a novel approach that achieves…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Aayam Bansal , Ishaan Gangwani

Secure and reliable data communication in optical networks is critical for high-speed Internet. However, optical fibers, serving as the data transmission medium providing connectivity to billons of users worldwide, are prone to a variety of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Khouloud Abdelli , Joo Yeon Cho , Florian Azendorf , Helmut Griesser , Carsten Tropschug , Stephan Pachnicke

Out-of-distribution states in robot manipulation often lead to unpredictable robot behavior or task failure, limiting success rates and increasing risk of damage. Anomaly detection (AD) can identify deviations from expected patterns in…

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

Automated incident management plays a pivotal role in large-scale microservice systems. However, many existing methods rely solely on single-modal data (e.g., metrics, logs, and traces) and struggle to simultaneously address multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yongqian Sun , Yu Luo , Xidao Wen , Yuan Yuan , Xiaohui Nie , Shenglin Zhang , Tong Liu , Xi Luo

This paper introduces a scalable Anomaly Detection Service with a generalizable API tailored for industrial time-series data, designed to assist Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in managing cloud infrastructure. The service enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Nimesh Jha , Shuxin Lin , Srideepika Jayaraman , Kyle Frohling , Christodoulos Constantinides , Dhaval Patel