Summary of Towards a General Time Series Anomaly Detector with Adaptive Bottlenecks and Dual Adversarial Decoders, by Qichao Shentu et al.
Towards a General Time Series Anomaly Detector with Adaptive Bottlenecks and Dual Adversarial Decoders
by Qichao Shentu, Beibu Li, Kai Zhao, Yang Shu, Zhongwen Rao, Lujia Pan, Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a general time series anomaly detection model, which can be pre-trained on extensive multi-domain datasets and applied to various downstream scenarios. The model, called General time series anomaly Detector with Adaptive Bottlenecks and Dual Adversarial Decoders (DADA), addresses two primary challenges: meeting the diverse requirements of different datasets and distinguishing between normal and abnormal patterns. DADA enables flexible selection of bottlenecks based on data and enhances differentiation between normal and abnormal series. The model is tested on nine target datasets from different domains, achieving competitive or superior results compared to models tailored to each specific dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers develop a way to detect unusual patterns in time series data that applies to many different scenarios. This is important because current methods often require training a new model for each dataset, which limits how well they work when there’s little training data available. The proposed model, called DADA, can be pre-trained on lots of data from different domains and then used to detect anomalies in other datasets with similar characteristics. DADA has two key features: it can adapt to the needs of different datasets by selecting the right “bottlenecks” of information, and it’s good at telling apart normal and abnormal patterns. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Time series
