Summary of Interpreting Outliers in Time Series Data Through Decoding Autoencoder, by Patrick Knab et al.
Interpreting Outliers in Time Series Data through Decoding Autoencoder
by Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Christian Bartelt, Robert Fuder
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents an approach to explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for outlier detection in manufacturing time series data. The method utilizes autoencoders to compress the data and then applies anomaly detection techniques to its latent features. To interpret outliers, the study adopts widely used XAI techniques to the autoencoder’s encoder and proposes a novel approach called Aggregated Explanatory Ensemble (AEE). AEE fuses explanations from multiple XAI techniques into a single, more expressive interpretation. The paper also introduces a technique to measure the quality of encoder explanations quantitatively and qualitatively assesses the effectiveness of outlier explanations with domain expertise. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study helps make artificial intelligence (AI) more understandable in manufacturing. When AI finds something unusual or “outlying” in data, it’s important to know why. The researchers used a special kind of AI called autoencoders to understand the data better. They then applied techniques to find and explain these outliers. To make the explanations even clearer, they combined multiple approaches into one. This study shows how to measure the quality of these explanations and confirms their usefulness with experts in the field. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Autoencoder » Encoder » Outlier detection » Time series
