LEAP is a new time‑series anomaly detection model that avoids reconstruction by using masked prediction and latent‑embedding evidence. It removes patches from a window, predicts them from remaining context, and scores prediction errors as anomaly evidence. The model incorporates three label‑free novelty signals—latent‑embedding novelty, local temporal contrast, and per‑channel novelty—and achieves strong performance on the TSB‑AD benchmark, with statistically significant gains from each component.
By Cristhian Moya-Mota, Ignacio Aguilera-Martos, Diego Garc\'ia-Gil, Juli\'an Luengo
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:2610.20243v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Anomaly detection is a fundamental task for time-series analytics, with important implications for the downstream performance of many applications. Des...
By Christos Panourgias, Roberto Stanzione, Adrien Petralia, Themis Palpanas, Paul Boniol
arXiv:2610.00978v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is difficult to generalize across datasets because heterogeneous temporal dynamics imply different notions of no...
By Tian Lan, Yifei Gao, Yimeng Lu, Xuming An, Meng Wang, Yue Pan, Wenjun He, Chenghao Liu, Chen Zhang
arXiv:2508. 00909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series anomaly detection plays a critical role in a wide range of real-world applications.
By Aitor S\'anchez-Ferrera, Usue Mori, Borja Calvo, Jose A. Lozano
arXiv:2610.16219v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time series (TS) anomaly detection (AD) lacks a universal detector, with the best choice determined by the series rather than by the algorithm. Existin...
By Seunghan Lee, Jun Seo, Jaehoon Lee, Junhyeok Kang, Sangjun Han, Sungdong Yoo, Minjae Kim, Tae Yoon Lim, Dongwan Kang, Hwanil Choi, Soonyoung Lee, Wonbin Ahn
arXiv:2606. 09874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstruction-based methods are widely used for time series anomaly detection, where models are trained to reconstruct subsequences, and anomalies are identified through reconstruction errors.
By Guillaume Coulaud (UM, IROKO), Reza Akbarinia (IROKO), Florent Masseglia (IROKO)
arXiv:2607. 00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the increasing sophistication of industrial AI systems, the ability to reliably detect subtle and noisy anomalies in complex time series data remains a critical yet unresolved challenge.
By Seung Hun Han, Hyeongwon Kang, Jinwoo Park, Pilsung Kang
The paper investigates whether the performance of anomaly detection systems can be predicted without labeled anomalies. For kNN-based detectors, it derives a lower bound on AUC that links detection performance to the separation and variance of inlier and outlier scores, and uses this to analyze how density variation, intrinsic dimensionality, and domain mismatch affect score variability. The authors introduce pseudo‑anomaly probes that provide a reference for estimating relative score separation, and demonstrate through experiments on DCASE benchmarks that these probes enable anomaly‑free model selection to outperform conventional development‑set selection, especially under domain shift.
By Kevin Wilkinghoff, Zheng-Hua Tan
arXiv:2610.28560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal objects, while anomaly samples are often scarce during model training. Assembling multiple pretrained...
By Shangquan Sun, Wenjun Luo, Xu He, Yoonsoo Lee, Shijian Lu
LEARN-TS is a method for multivariate time‑series anomaly detection that uses a frozen language model to generate two semantic representations: one that captures window‑specific observation context without exact numerical values, and another that provides a fixed, dataset‑agnostic normality prompt. These representations guide a patch‑masked reconstruction process, allowing the model to estimate normality discrepancy and produce timestamp‑level anomaly evidence. Experiments on four benchmarks show that LEARN‑TS achieves the best mean performance in 13 of 16 dataset‑metric comparisons, and ablation studies confirm the benefits of observation conditioning, joint normality alignment, and semantic references.
By Jahyeob Koo, Kio Yun, Byoungmo Koo, Jun-Geol Baek
NV-Tesseract-AD is a curriculum learning‑enhanced conditional diffusion framework designed for multivariate time‑series anomaly detection. It structures reconstruction difficulty along masking severity and diffusion noise level, using a Transformer‑based diffusion backbone and a three‑stage dual curriculum that keeps anomalous samples throughout training. The method achieves significant performance gains, including a 3.7‑fold F1 improvement and 56% MSE reduction over a non‑curriculum baseline, and demonstrates strong zero‑shot results on several benchmark families.
By Aditi Gautam, Manikandan Ravikiran, Saira Qureshi, Sena Fatma Ekiz, Charan Jagwani, Mahmoud Elhadidy, Sanjeev Roka