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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can enrich industrial anomaly detection with semantic descriptions and anomaly reasoning, but they still lag specialist anomaly detectors in binary detection accuracy. Existing approaches address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaomeng Peng , Xilang Huang , Seon Han Choi

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

When formulated as an unsupervised learning problem, anomaly detection often requires a model to learn the distribution of normal data. Previous works apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to anomaly detection tasks and show good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xu Han , Xiaohui Chen , Li-Ping Liu

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential in areas such as fraud detection, network monitoring, and scientific research. However, the diversity of data modalities and the increasing number of specialized AD libraries pose challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tiankai Yang , Junjun Liu , Wingchun Siu , Jiahang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Qian , Chanjuan Song , Cheng Cheng , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

Observability in cloud infrastructure is critical for service providers, driving the widespread adoption of anomaly detection systems for monitoring metrics. However, existing systems often struggle to simultaneously achieve explainability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yile Gu , Yifan Xiong , Jonathan Mace , Yuting Jiang , Yigong Hu , Baris Kasikci , Peng Cheng

One of the contemporary challenges in anomaly detection is the ability to detect, and differentiate between, both point and collective anomalies within a data sequence or time series. The anomaly package has been developed to provide users…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-30 Alex Fisch , Daniel Grose , Idris A. Eckley , Paul Fearnhead , Lawrence Bardwell

This paper introduces a novel changepoint detection framework that combines ensemble statistical methods with Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance both detection accuracy and the interpretability of regime changes in time series data.…

Anomalies in univariate time series often refer to abnormal values and deviations from the temporal patterns from majority of historical observations. In multivariate time series, anomalies also refer to abnormal changes in the inter-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Katrina Chen , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto

Multivariate time series anomaly detection has numerous real-world applications and is being extensively studied. Modeling pairwise correlations between variables is crucial. Existing methods employ learnable graph structures and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zehao Liu , Mengzhou Gao , Pengfei Jiao

Developing efficient time series anomaly detection techniques is important to maintain service quality and provide early alarms. Generative neural network methods are one class of the unsupervised approaches that are achieving increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yueyan Gu , Farrokh Jazizadeh

The time-series anomaly detection is one of the most fundamental tasks for time-series. Unlike the time-series forecasting and classification, the time-series anomaly detection typically requires unsupervised (or self-supervised) training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Haksoo Lim , Sewon Park , Minjung Kim , Jaehoon Lee , Seonkyu Lim , Noseong Park

The detection of anomalies in time series data is a critical task with many monitoring applications. Existing systems often fail to encompass an end-to-end detection process, to facilitate comparative analysis of various anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Sarah Alnegheimish , Dongyu Liu , Carles Sala , Laure Berti-Equille , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Generating high-fidelity synthetic tabular data remains a critical challenge for enhancing data availability in privacy-sensitive and low-resource domains. Recent approaches leverage LLMs by representing table rows as sequences, yet suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shuo Yang , Zheyu Zhang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

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

Long-term memory is becoming a central bottleneck for language agents. Exsting RAG and GraphRAG systems largely treat memory graphs as static retrieval middleware, which limits their ability to recover complete evidence chains from partial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Juntong Wang , Haoyue Zhao , guanghui Pan , Xiyuan Wang , Yanbo Wang , Qiyan Deng , Muhan Zhang

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

Anomaly detection has been a challenging task given high-dimensional multivariate time series data generated by networked sensors and actuators in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Besides the highly nonlinear, complex, and dynamic natures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kai Zhang , Yushan Jiang , Lee Seversky , Chengtao Xu , Dahai Liu , Houbing Song

Robust anomaly detection is a requirement for monitoring complex modern systems with applications such as cyber-security, fraud prevention, and maintenance. These systems generate multiple correlated time series that are highly seasonal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Zhewen Fan

Time series anomaly detection is an important task, with applications in a broad variety of domains. Many approaches have been proposed in recent years, but often they require that the length of the anomalies be known in advance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin , Constantin Brif

Time series classification is a task which deals with temporal sequences, a prevalent data type common in domains such as human activity recognition, sports analytics and general sensing. In this area, interest in explainability has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Thu Trang Nguyen , Thach Le Nguyen , Georgiana Ifrim