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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yang Liu , Yixing Luo , Xiaofeng Li , Xiaogang Dong , Bin Gu , Zhi Jin

Many methods have been proposed for unsupervised time series anomaly detection. Despite some progress, research on predicting future anomalies is still relatively scarce. Predicting anomalies is particularly challenging due to the diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Shiyan Hu , Kai Zhao , Xiangfei Qiu , Yang Shu , Jilin Hu , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo

Matrix Profile (MP) methods are an interpretable and scalable family of distance-based methods for time-series anomaly detection, but strong benchmark performance still depends on design choices beyond a vanilla nearest-neighbor profile.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chin-Chia Michael Yeh

Weakly supervised anomaly detection (WSAD) has developed in three primary directions: incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision. However, these directions remain isolated, lacking a unified framework to assess whether they address…

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Time series anomaly detection presents various challenges due to the sequential and dynamic nature of time-dependent data. Traditional unsupervised methods frequently encounter difficulties in generalization, often overfitting to known…

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With the widespread availability of sensor data across industrial and operational systems, we frequently encounter heterogeneous time series from multiple systems. Anomaly detection is crucial for such systems to facilitate predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sarah Alnegheimish , Zelin He , Matthew Reimherr , Akash Chandrayan , Abhinav Pradhan , Luca D'Angelo

Time series anomaly detection plays a crucial role in a wide range of real-world applications. Given that time series data can exhibit different patterns at different sampling granularities, multi-scale modeling has proven beneficial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Beibu Li , Qichao Shentu , Yang Shu , Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Ning Jin , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo

Time series anomalies can offer information relevant to critical situations facing various fields, from finance and aerospace to the IT, security, and medical domains. However, detecting anomalies in time series data is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Alexander Geiger , Dongyu Liu , Sarah Alnegheimish , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Multivariate time series (MTS) anomaly detection is essential for maintaining the reliability of industrial systems, yet real-world deployment is hindered by two critical challenges: training data contamination (noises and hidden anomalies)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Songhan Zhang , Yuanhao Lai , Pengfei Zheng , Boxi Yu , Xiaoying Tang , Qiuai Fu , Pinjia He

Detecting anomalies in large, distributed systems presents several challenges. The first challenge arises from the sheer volume of data that needs to be processed. Flagging anomalies in a high-throughput environment calls for a careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anupam Panwar , Himadri Pal , Jiali Chen , Kyle Cho , Riddick Jiang , Miao Zhao , Rajiv Krishnamurthy

Detecting anomalies in temporal data has gained significant attention across various real-world applications, aiming to identify unusual events and mitigate potential hazards. In practice, situations often involve a mix of segment-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yaxuan Wang , Hao Cheng , Jing Xiong , Qingsong Wen , Han Jia , Ruixuan Song , Liyuan Zhang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

Multivariate time series data come as a collection of time series describing different aspects of a certain temporal phenomenon. Anomaly detection in this type of data constitutes a challenging problem yet with numerous applications in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jinbo Li , Hesam Izakian , Witold Pedrycz , Iqbal Jamal

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) has been widely studied in one-class classification (OCC) setting. The training samples in OCC are assumed to be normal, which is difficult to guarantee in practical situations. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Qihang Zhou , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Jiming Chen , Wenchao Meng

Time series anomaly detection is widely used in IoT and cyber-physical systems, yet its evaluation remains challenging due to diverse application objectives and heterogeneous metric assumptions. This study introduces a problem-oriented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kaixiang Yang , Jiarong Liu , Yupeng Song , Shuanghua Yang , Yujue Zhou

Despite the growing body of work on explainable machine learning in time series classification (TSC), it remains unclear how to evaluate different explainability methods. Resorting to qualitative assessment and user studies to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jacqueline Höllig , Steffen Thoma , Florian Grimm

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

The field of time series anomaly detection is constantly advancing, with several methods available, making it a challenge to determine the most appropriate method for a specific domain. The evaluation of these methods is facilitated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sondre Sørbø , Massimiliano Ruocco

Multivariate time series (MTS) arise when multiple interconnected sensors record data over time. Dealing with this high-dimensional data is challenging for every classifier for at least two aspects: First, an MTS is not only characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Patrick Schäfer , Ulf Leser

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

While anomaly detection in time series has been an active area of research for several years, most recent approaches employ an inadequate evaluation criterion leading to an inflated F1 score. We show that a rudimentary Random Guess method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Keval Doshi , Shatha Abudalou , Yasin Yilmaz