Summary of Unveiling the Flaws: a Critical Analysis Of Initialization Effect on Time Series Anomaly Detection, by Alex Koran et al.
Unveiling the Flaws: A Critical Analysis of Initialization Effect on Time Series Anomaly Detection
by Alex Koran, Hadi Hojjati, Narges Armanfard
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Aug 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 Deep learning models have been used for time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) over the past decade, with reported improvements in several papers. However, these models are still limited in their practical application due to flaws in their evaluation techniques. This paper examines the impact of initialization on TSAD model performance and finds that these models are highly sensitive to hyperparameters such as window size, seed number, and normalization. These sensitivities can lead to significant variability in performance, which can be exploited to artificially inflate the reported efficacy of these models. The findings highlight the need for rigorous evaluation protocols and transparent reporting of preprocessing steps to ensure the reliability and fairness of anomaly detection methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Time-series anomaly detection is a way to find unusual patterns in data that doesn’t fit with what’s expected. Some researchers have been working on using deep learning to do this, but they’ve only been looking at half the story. This paper looks at how these models start out and how that affects their performance. It finds that these models are very picky about certain details and can change a lot depending on those details. This means that people might be making it seem like their model is doing better than it really is. The authors think we should be more careful when looking at these kinds of models and make sure we’re not fooling ourselves. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Deep learning » Time series
