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Anomalies (unusual patterns) in time-series data give essential, and often actionable information in critical situations. Examples can be found in such fields as healthcare, intrusion detection, finance, security and flight safety. In this…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-17 Evgeny Burnaev , Vladislav Ishimtsev

Anomaly detection in time-series has a wide range of practical applications. While numerous anomaly detection methods have been proposed in the literature, a recent survey concluded that no single method is the most accurate across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mononito Goswami , Cristian Challu , Laurent Callot , Lenon Minorics , Andrey Kan

Anomaly detection in time series data is a critical challenge across various domains. Traditional methods typically focus on identifying anomalies in immediate subsequent steps, often underestimating the significance of temporal dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiang You , Arben Cela , René Natowicz , Jacob Ouanounou , Patrick Siarry

Among the many challenges posed by the huge data volumes produced by the new generation of astronomical instruments there is also the search for rare and peculiar objects. Unsupervised outlier detection algorithms may provide a viable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Lars Doorenbos , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Antonio D'Isanto , Giuseppe Longo

Outlier detection is a crucial analytical tool in various fields. In critical systems like manufacturing, malfunctioning outlier detection can be costly and safety-critical. Therefore, there is a significant need for explainable artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Patrick Knab , Sascha Marton , Christian Bartelt , Robert Fuder

Time series anomaly detection is challenging due to the complexity and variety of patterns that can occur. One major difficulty arises from modeling time-dependent relationships to find contextual anomalies while maintaining detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chih-Yu Lai , Fan-Keng Sun , Zhengqi Gao , Jeffrey H. Lang , Duane S. Boning

Anomaly detection is a longstanding and active research area that has many applications in domains such as finance, security, and manufacturing. However, the efficiency and performance of anomaly detection algorithms are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yang Cao , Haolong Xiang , Hang Zhang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

Errors are prevalent in time series data, such as GPS trajectories or sensor readings. Existing methods focus more on anomaly detection but not on repairing the detected anomalies. By simply filtering out the dirty data via anomaly…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Aoqian Zhang , Shaoxu Song , Jianmin Wang , Philip S. Yu

This paper evaluates algorithms for classification and outlier detection accuracies in temporal data. We focus on algorithms that train and classify rapidly and can be used for systems that need to incorporate new data regularly. Hence, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-03 Victoria J. Hodge , Jim Austin

In many IoT applications, the central interest lies not in individual sensor signals but in their differences, yet interpreting such differences requires expert knowledge. We propose DiffNator, a framework for structured explanations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Kota Dohi , Tomoya Nishida , Harsh Purohit , Takashi Endo , Yohei Kawaguchi

We consider the Granger causal structure learning problem from time series data. Granger causal algorithms predict a 'Granger causal effect' between two variables by testing if prediction error of one decreases significantly in the absence…

In this paper, we present a novel approach for local exceptionality detection on time series data. This method provides the ability to discover interpretable patterns in the data, which can be used to understand and predict the progression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Dan Hudson , Travis J. Wiltshire , Martin Atzmueller

Undetected anomalies in time series can trigger catastrophic failures in safety-critical systems, such as chemical plant explosions or power grid outages. Although many detection methods have been proposed, their performance remains unclear…

Time-series generated by end-users, edge devices, and different wearables are mostly unlabelled. We propose a method to auto-generate labels of un-labelled time-series, exploiting very few representative labelled time-series. Our method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Soma Bandyopadhyay , Anish Datta , Arpan Pal

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for non-stationary time-series analysis that replaces conventional correlation-based statistics with direct estimation of statistical dependence in the normalized joint density of input and target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yao Sun , Bo Hu , Jose Principe

A multivariate score-driven filter is developed to extract signals from noisy vector processes. By assuming that the conditional location vector from a multivariate Student's t distribution changes over time, we construct a robust filter…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-08-31 Enzo D'Innocenzo , Alessandra Luati , Mario Mazzocchi

This paper presents an approach to analyzing two-dimensional temporal datasets focusing on identifying observations that are significant in calculating the outliers of a scatterplot. We also propose a prototype, called Outliagnostics, to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Vung Pham , Tommy Dang

This paper introduces temporal-conditioned normalizing flows (tcNF), a novel framework that addresses anomaly detection in time series data with accurate modeling of temporal dependencies and uncertainty. By conditioning normalizing flows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 David Baumgartner , Helge Langseth , Kenth Engø-Monsen , Heri Ramampiaro

While self-supervised learning has improved anomaly detection in computer vision and natural language processing, it is unclear whether tabular data can benefit from it. This paper explores the limitations of self-supervision for tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

Nonlinear and delayed effects of covariates often render time series forecasting challenging. To this end, we propose a novel forecasting framework based on ridge regression with signature features calculated on sliding windows. These…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Nina Drobac , Margaux Brégère , Joseph de Vilmarest , Olivier Wintenberger