Summary of Melody: Robust Semi-supervised Hybrid Model For Entity-level Online Anomaly Detection with Multivariate Time Series, by Jingchao Ni et al.
MELODY: Robust Semi-Supervised Hybrid Model for Entity-Level Online Anomaly Detection with Multivariate Time Series
by Jingchao Ni, Gauthier Guinet, Peihong Jiang, Laurent Callot, Andrey Kan
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jan 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 This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in software deployments, which is crucial for maintaining performance and preventing cascading outages in large IT systems. To tackle this challenge, researchers propose a novel framework called MELODY, which transforms multivariate time series data from different entities into a unified feature space using an online feature extractor. MELODY then employs a semi-supervised deep one-class model to detect anomalous entities. Experimental results on real-world cloud service data show that MELODY outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 56.5% in terms of relative F1 score improvement. The user evaluation suggests that MELODY is suitable for monitoring deployments in large online systems. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us detect when software updates go wrong, which can cause big problems with online services. It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack! The researchers created a new way called MELODY to find these problems early on. They tested it on real data from cloud services and showed that it works really well – better than other methods they tried. This is important because it can help prevent big issues with online services. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Anomaly detection * F1 score * Semi supervised * Time series
