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Anomaly detection is crucial for understanding unusual behaviors in data, as anomalies offer valuable insights. This paper introduces Dependency-based Anomaly Detection (DepAD), a general framework that utilizes variable dependencies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Sha Lu , Lin Liu , Kui Yu , Thuc Duy Le , Jixue Liu , Jiuyong Li

Multivariate time-series anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying unexpected events, has been explored in the field of machine learning for several decades. However, directly applying these methods to data from forceful tool use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yating Lin , Zixuan Huang , Fan Yang , Dmitry Berenson

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) has been an important area of research for decades, with reconstruction-based methods, mostly based on generative models, gaining popularity and demonstrating success. Diffusion models have recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kohei Obata , Zheng Chen , Yasuko Matsubara , Lingwei Zhu , Yasushi Sakurai

Many organisations manage service quality and monitor a large set devices and servers where each entity is associated with telemetry or physical sensor data series. Recently, various methods have been proposed to detect behavioural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Len Feremans , Boris Cule , Bart Goethals

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

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series data is of paramount importance for ensuring the efficient operation of large-scale systems across diverse domains. However, accurately detecting anomalies in such data poses significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yuhang Chen , Chaoyun Zhang , Minghua Ma , Yudong Liu , Ruomeng Ding , Bowen Li , Shilin He , Saravan Rajmohan , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang

Anomaly detection (AD) is the machine learning task of identifying highly discrepant abnormal samples by solely relying on the consistency of the normal training samples. Under the constraints of a distribution shift, the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 João B. S. Carvalho , Mengtao Zhang , Robin Geyer , Carlos Cotrini , Joachim M. Buhmann

Today's cyber-world is vastly multivariate. Metrics collected at extreme varieties demand multivariate algorithms to properly detect anomalies. However, forecast-based algorithms, as widely proven approaches, often perform sub-optimally or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Lan Wang , Yusan Lin , Yuhang Wu , Huiyuan Chen , Fei Wang , Hao Yang

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task of critical importance across numerous domains. Current systems increasingly operate in rapidly evolving environments that generate diverse yet interconnected data modalities -- such as time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhongyuan Wu , Jingyuan Wang , Zexuan Cheng , Yilong Zhou , Weizhi Wang , Juhua Pu , Chao Li , Changqing Ma

Mainstream unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms often excel in academic datasets, yet their real-world performance is restricted due to the controlled experimental conditions involving clean training data. Addressing the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is becoming increasingly vital due to the rapid growth of time series data across various sectors. Anomalies in web service data, for example, can signal critical incidents such as system failures or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiaxin Zhuang , Leon Yan , Zhenwei Zhang , Ruiqi Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Yuantao Gu

Time series are ubiquitous and occur naturally in a variety of applications -- from data recorded by sensors in manufacturing processes, over financial data streams to climate data. Different tasks arise, such as regression, classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sebastian Wette , Florian Heinrichs

Unsupervised anomaly detection in time-series has been extensively investigated in the literature. Notwithstanding the relevance of this topic in numerous application fields, a comprehensive and extensive evaluation of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nesryne Mejri , Laura Lopez-Fuentes , Kankana Roy , Pavel Chernakov , Enjie Ghorbel , Djamila Aouada

In practice, machine learning methods commonly require anomaly detection (AD) to filter inputs or detect distributional shifts. Typically, this is implemented by running a separate AD model alongside the primary model. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Hinkamp , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Deep learning-based sequence models are extensively employed in Time Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) tasks due to their effective sequential modeling capabilities. However, the ability of TSAD is limited by two key challenges: (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Junqi Chen , Xu Tan , Sylwan Rahardja , Jiawei Yang , Susanto Rahardja

Detecting anomalous time series is key for scientific, medical and industrial tasks, but is challenging due to its inherent unsupervised nature. In recent years, progress has been made on this task by learning increasingly more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Yedid Hoshen

The progress in modelling time series and, more generally, sequences of structured data has recently revamped research in anomaly detection. The task stands for identifying abnormal behaviors in financial series, IT systems, aerospace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alessandro Flaborea , Bardh Prenkaj , Bharti Munjal , Marco Aurelio Sterpa , Dario Aragona , Luca Podo , Fabio Galasso

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time series(MTS) data plays an important role in many domains. The abnormal values could indicate events, medical abnormalities,cyber-attacks, or faulty devices which if left undetected could lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Usman Anjum , Samuel Lin , Justin Zhan

Robust Anomaly Detection (AD) on time series data is a key component for monitoring many complex modern systems. These systems typically generate high-dimensional time series that can be highly noisy, seasonal, and inter-correlated. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Zhewen Fan , Vitor R. Carvalho

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