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Most log-based anomaly detectors assume logs are stable, though logs are often unstable due to software or environmental changes. Anomaly detection on unstable logs (ULAD) is therefore a more realistic, yet under-investigated challenge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Fatemeh Hadadi , Qinghua Xu , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

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

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 anomalous events in online computer systems is crucial to protect the systems from malicious attacks or malfunctions. System logs, which record detailed information of computational events, are widely used for system status…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Haixuan Guo , Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

Existing Log Anomaly Detection (LogAD) methods are often slow, dependent on error-prone parsing, and use unrealistic evaluation protocols. We introduce $K^4$, an unsupervised and parser-independent framework for high-performance online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weicong Chen , Vikash Singh , Zahra Rahmani , Debargha Ganguly , Mohsen Hariri , Vipin Chaudhary

Anomaly detection is a common analytical task that aims to identify rare cases that differ from the typical cases that make up the majority of a dataset. When applied to the analysis of event sequence data, the task of anomaly detection can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Shunan Guo , Zhuochen Jin , Qing Chen , David Gotz , Hongyuan Zha , Nan Cao

Time-series anomaly detectors are commonly compared on workstation-class hardware under unconstrained execution. In-vehicle monitoring, however, requires predictable latency and stable behavior under limited CPU parallelism. Accuracy-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kadir-Kaan Özer , René Ebeling , Markus Enzweiler

Log anomaly detection (LAD) is essential to ensure safe and stable operation of software systems. Although current LAD methods exhibit significant potential in addressing challenges posed by unstable log events and temporal sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiyu Tian , Mingchu Li , Zumin Wang , Liming Chen , Jing Qin , Runfa Zhang

We propose HyGLAD, a novel algorithm that automatically builds a set of interpretable patterns that model event data. These patterns can then be used to detect event-based anomalies in a stationary system, where any deviation from past…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Margarida Ferreira , Victor Nicolet , Luan Pham , Joey Dodds , Daniel Kroening , Ines Lynce , Ruben Martins

Most enterprise applications use logging as a mechanism to diagnose anomalies, which could help with reducing system downtime. Anomaly detection using software execution logs has been explored in several prior studies, using both classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Nadun Wijesinghe , Hadi Hemmati

Anomaly detection, which aims to identify anomalies deviating from normal patterns, is challenging due to the limited amount of normal data available. Unlike most existing unified methods that rely on carefully designed image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jiawei Liu , Jiahe Hou , Wei Wang , Jinsong Du , Yang Cong , Huijie Fan

Log anomaly detection is a critical task for system operations and security assurance. However, in networked systems at scale, log data are generated at massive scale while instance-level annotations are prohibitively expensive, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yutszyuk Wong , Wentai Wu , Yuen-Ying Yeung , Weiwei Lin

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying unexpected events or ab-normalities in data, and it has been applied in many different areas such as system monitoring, fraud detection, healthcare, intrusion detection, etc. Providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin , Ernst Gunnar Gran

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

Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) play a pivotal role in identifying, mitigating, and analyzing anomalous system behaviors and alerts. However, the research landscape in this field remains limited, leaving significant gaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Daksh Dave , Gauransh Sawhney , Dhruv Khut , Sahil Nawale , Pushkar Aggrawal , Prasenjit Bhavathankar

The system log generated in a computer system refers to large-scale data that are collected simultaneously and used as the basic data for determining errors, intrusion and abnormal behaviors. The aim of system log anomaly detection is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yukyung Lee , Jina Kim , Pilsung Kang

Log anomaly detection refers to the task that distinguishes the anomalous log messages from normal log messages. Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are becoming popular for log anomaly detection because of their superb ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhuoyi Yang , Ian G. Harris

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) has been a long-standing pillar problem in Web-scale systems and online infrastructures, such as service reliability monitoring, system fault diagnosis, and performance optimization. Large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiongxiao Xu , Haoran Wang , Yueqing Liang , Philip S. Yu , Yue Zhao , Kai Shu

Organizations rely heavily on time series metrics to measure and model key aspects of operational and business performance. The ability to reliably detect issues with these metrics is imperative to identifying early indicators of major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Sayan Chakraborty , Smit Shah , Kiumars Soltani , Anna Swigart , Luyao Yang , Kyle Buckingham

Identifying anomalous instances in tabular data is essential for improving data reliability and maintaining system stability. Due to the scarcity of ground-truth anomaly labels, existing methods mainly rely on unsupervised anomaly detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Huang , Yuxuan Xiong , Hezhe Qiao , Yu-Ming Shang , Xiangling Fu , Guansong Pang