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SynEnergy: Anomaly Semantic-Guided Diffusion for Synthetic Energy Data Generation

arXiv:2608. 03087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained energy consumption data are essential for applications such as demand forecasting, demand response planning, and grid reliability assessment.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

CAST: Context- and Anomaly Structure-Conditioned Time Series Anomaly Generation

CAST is a framework for generating anomalous time series that addresses the scarcity and heterogeneity of anomaly data. It uses a two‑stage approach: pretraining on abundant normal data to learn system dynamics, then finetuning with anomaly structure representations to capture diverse anomaly morphologies. Experiments on real‑world datasets show that CAST outperforms existing methods in both generation quality and downstream task performance.

By Haochen Zhang, Jie Peng, Songyuan Sui, Yu-Chao Huang, Xiangqi Zhu, Tianlong Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Statistical Feature Augmentation for Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs

The paper introduces a statistical feature augmentation technique that encodes behavioral interaction statistics into the input space for dynamic graph anomaly detection. Experiments on Reddit, Wikipedia, and MOOC datasets across seven models—both continuous-time and discrete-time—show that this augmentation consistently improves detection performance compared to models trained on original embeddings. The enriched input also facilitates fine-grained post-hoc analysis of behavioral importance, linking classical network analysis with deep learning.

By Philipp Schlinge, Jean-Luc Schnipper, Martin Atzmueller
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

LoaDiff: Conditional Generation of Electricity Consumption Time Series for Energy Analytics

LoaDiff is a diffusion-based generative model that produces year-long, sub-hourly smart‑meter electricity consumption time series. It can be conditioned on static household attributes like appliance ownership and dynamic factors such as calendar dates and outdoor temperature. Evaluations on three residential datasets show that LoaDiff generates realistic, diverse load profiles, limits memorization, retains useful information for downstream tasks, and responds coherently to conditioning changes.

By Mariia Baranova, Adrien Petralia, Etienne Le Naour, Nathan Etourneau, Guillaume Hofmann, Themis Palpanas
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

DPA: Decoupling Product-Agnostic Anomaly Representations for Zero-shot Anomaly Generation

The paper introduces DPA, a diffusion-based framework that decouples product-agnostic anomaly representations to enable zero-shot anomaly generation. By reusing real anomalies from existing source products and filtering them for plausibility, DPA learns product-irrelevant anomaly embeddings that can be transferred across products. An adaptive mask-guided pipeline and a training-free labeling module further refine the realism and localization of generated anomalies, leading to improved performance on MVTec-AD, VisA, and a new anomaly-transfer benchmark.

By Hang Yao, Yansheng Fu, Ming Liu, Zifei Yan, Yanli Ji, Hongzhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ASTER: Latent Pseudo-Anomaly Generation for Unsupervised Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2604. 13924v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is critical in domains such as industrial monitoring, healthcare, and cybersecurity, but it remains challenging due to rare and heterogeneous anomalies and the scarcity of labelled data.

By Romain Hermary, Samet Hicsonmez, Dan Pineau, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Djamila Aouada