Summary of Revisiting Vae For Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection: a Frequency Perspective, by Zexin Wang et al.
Revisiting VAE for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection: A Frequency Perspective
by Zexin Wang, Changhua Pei, Minghua Ma, Xin Wang, Zhihan Li, Dan Pei, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Haiming Zhang, Jianhui Li, Gaogang Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Feb 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 The proposed Frequency-enhanced Conditional Variational Autoencoder (FCVAE) is a novel unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection (AD) method that tackles challenges in capturing long-periodic heterogeneous patterns and detailed short-periodic trends simultaneously. By integrating global and local frequency features into the condition of Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE), FCVAE significantly improves accuracy in reconstructing normal data. Additionally, a “target attention” mechanism enables the model to focus on relevant information from the frequency domain for better short-periodic trend construction. Experimental results demonstrate that FCVAE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on public datasets and a large-scale cloud system. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FCVAE is a new way to find unusual patterns in time series data. This helps web systems like big websites or apps detect problems early and fix them fast. Right now, some tools are good at finding weird things that happen over long periods of time, but they’re not so great at finding small changes that happen quickly. FCVAE fixes this by looking at both kinds of patterns together. It even helps the model decide what’s most important to pay attention to. This makes it really good at finding anomalies and fixing problems. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Anomaly detection * Attention * Time series * Unsupervised * Variational autoencoder
