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Time series anomaly detection has been recognized as of critical importance for the reliable and efficient operation of real-world systems. Many anomaly detection methods have been developed based on various assumptions on anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jiuqi Elise Zhang , Di Wu , Benoit Boulet

The detection of anomalous behaviours is an emerging need in many applications, particularly in contexts where security and reliability are critical aspects. While the definition of anomaly strictly depends on the domain framework, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Elisa Marcelli , Tommaso Barbariol , Gian Antonio Susto

Functional Isolation Forest (FIF) is a recent state-of-the-art Anomaly Detection (AD) algorithm designed for functional data. It relies on a tree partition procedure where an abnormality score is computed by projecting each curve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-26 Marta Campi , Guillaume Staerman , Gareth W. Peters , Tomoko Matsui

Reliable evaluation of anomaly detection methods in multivariate time series remains an open challenge, largely due to the limitations of existing benchmark datasets. Current resources often lack fine-grained anomaly annotations, do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pierre Lotte , André Péninou , Olivier Teste

Anomaly detection of multivariate time series is meaningful for system behavior monitoring. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on unsupervised Short- and Long-term Mask Representation learning (SLMR). The main idea is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Qiucheng Miao , Chuanfu Xu , Jun Zhan , Dong Zhu , Chengkun Wu

We address the problem of detecting anomalies with respect to structured patterns. To this end, we conceive a novel anomaly detection method called PIF, that combines the advantages of adaptive isolation methods with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi , Cesare Alippi

Anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in various fields for critical tasks such as intrusion detection in cybersecurity, financial risk detection, and human health monitoring. A variety of anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Haolong Xiang , Xuyun Zhang , Hongsheng Hu , Lianyong Qi , Wanchun Dou , Mark Dras , Amin Beheshti , Xiaolong Xu

Software log analysis can be laborious and time consuming. Time and labeled data are usually lacking in industrial settings. This paper studies unsupervised and time efficient methods for anomaly detection. We study two custom and two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jesse Nyyssölä , Mika Mäntylä

Unsupervised fault detection in multivariate time series plays a vital role in ensuring the stable operation of complex systems. Traditional methods often assume that normal data follow a single Gaussian distribution and identify anomalies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hong Liu , Xiuxiu Qiu , Yiming Shi , Miao Xu , Zelin Zang , Zhen Lei

Deep learning has made significant advances in creating efficient representations of time series data by automatically identifying complex patterns. However, these approaches lack interpretability, as the time series is transformed into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Etienne Le Naour , Ghislain Agoua , Nicolas Baskiotis , Vincent Guigue

This paper presents a new Python library for anomaly detection in unsupervised learning approaches. The input for the library is a univariate time series representing observations of a given phenomenon. Then, it can identify anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Simona Bernardi , José Merseguer , Raúl Javierre

Monitoring complex systems results in massive multivariate time series data, and anomaly detection of these data is very important to maintain the normal operation of the systems. Despite the recent emergence of a large number of anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Liwei Deng , Xuanhao Chen , Yan Zhao , Kai Zheng

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time-series data is essential in many real-world applications. Recently, various deep learning-based approaches have shown considerable improvements in time-series anomaly detection. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Kyeong-Joong Jeong , Yong-Min Shin

Event sequence data record the occurrences of events in continuous time. Event sequence forecasting based on temporal point processes (TPPs) has been extensively studied, but outlier or anomaly detection, especially without any supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Somjit Nath , Yik Chau Lui , Siqi Liu

Time Series Extrinsic Regression (TSER) involves using a set of training time series to form a predictive model of a continuous response variable that is not directly related to the regressor series. The TSER archive for comparing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 David Guijo-Rubio , Matthew Middlehurst , Guilherme Arcencio , Diego Furtado Silva , Anthony Bagnall

Automating anomaly detection is an open problem in many scientific fields, particularly in time-domain astronomy, where modern telescopes generate millions of alerts per night. Currently, most anomaly detection algorithms for astronomical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

Time series classification (TSC) aims to predict the class label of a given time series, which is critical to a rich set of application areas such as economics and medicine. State-of-the-art TSC methods have mostly focused on classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Nestor Cabello , Elham Naghizade , Jianzhong Qi , Lars Kulik

The need to explain predictive models is well-established in modern machine learning. However, beyond model interpretability, understanding pre-processing methods is equally essential. Understanding how data modifications impact model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Matteo Ceschin , Leonardo Arrighi , Luca Longo , Sylvio Barbon Junior

Time series forecasting is an important and forefront task in many real-world applications. However, most of time series forecasting techniques assume that the training data is clean without anomalies. This assumption is unrealistic since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Hao Cheng , Qingsong Wen , Yang Liu , Liang Sun

The anomaly detection literature is abundant with offline methods, which require repeated access to data in memory, and impose impractical assumptions when applied to a streaming context. Existing online anomaly detection methods also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Filippo Leveni , Guilherme Weigert Cassales , Bernhard Pfahringer , Albert Bifet , Giacomo Boracchi