Summary of Weakly Augmented Variational Autoencoder in Time Series Anomaly Detection, by Zhangkai Wu et al.
Weakly Augmented Variational Autoencoder in Time Series Anomaly Detection
by Zhangkai Wu, Longbing Cao, Qi Zhang, Junxian Zhou, Hui Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach for reconstruction-based Time Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). The authors combine VAEs with self-supervised learning (SSL) to address the challenge of inherent data scarcity, which can lead to non-robust reconstructions. The proposed framework is designed to effectively capture spatiotemporal dependencies in the data and improve the robustness of anomaly detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us detect unusual patterns in time series data better by using a special type of AI called Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). These VAEs are trained without any supervision, which makes them good at finding anomalies. However, when there’s not much data available, these VAEs can struggle to find the right patterns. To solve this problem, the authors came up with a new way of training these VAEs that uses another type of AI called self-supervised learning (SSL). This new approach helps the VAEs learn from the data they have and make better predictions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Anomaly detection * Self supervised * Spatiotemporal * Time series
