Summary of Hcl-mtsad: Hierarchical Contrastive Consistency Learning For Accurate Detection Of Industrial Multivariate Time Series Anomalies, by Haili Sun et al.
HCL-MTSAD: Hierarchical Contrastive Consistency Learning for Accurate Detection of Industrial Multivariate Time Series Anomalies
by Haili Sun, Yan Huang, Lansheng Han, Cai Fu, Chunjie Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
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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 self-supervised hierarchical contrastive consistency learning method for detecting anomalies in Multivariate Time Series (MTS), called HCL-MTSAD. The approach leverages data consistency at multiple levels inherent in industrial MTS, capturing consistent associations across four latent levels-measurement, sample, channel, and process. By developing a multi-layer contrastive loss, HCL-MTSAD can extensively mine data consistency and spatio-temporal association, resulting in more informative representations. An anomaly discrimination module is then designed to detect timestamp-level anomalies by calculating multi-scale data consistency. HCL-MTSAD outperforms state-of-the-art benchmark models on six diverse MTS datasets from real cyber-physical systems and server machines, achieving an average F1 score improvement of 1.8%. This paper demonstrates the potential of HCL-MTSAD for ensuring the safety and security of industrial applications by detecting anomalies in multivariate time series data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to find unusual patterns in large sets of connected data, like temperature readings from a factory floor or CPU usage from a server room. The usual methods for finding these anomalies don’t work well when the data has many variables and connections between them. To fix this problem, the authors propose a new method called HCL-MTSAD that looks at patterns at multiple levels to find unusual events. This approach does better than other methods in detecting anomalies on different sets of real-world data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Contrastive loss * F1 score * Self supervised * Temperature * Time series
