arXiv Machine Learning

Generative multi-domain transfer learning for fault detection in data-scarce wind turbines

arXiv AI
Oct 28

On the Tradeoffs of On-Device Generative Models in Federated Predictive Maintenance Systems

The paper evaluates Variational Autoencoders, Generative Adversarial Networks, and Diffusion Models for unsupervised anomaly detection in federated predictive maintenance. It compares full and partial federation setups, showing that full federation improves GAN performance but VAE and DDPM models are more robust. Decoding‑only sharing in Diffusion Models achieves similar utility to full federation while cutting communication costs.

By Usevalad Milasheuski, Piero Baraldi, Enrico Zio, Stefano Savazzi
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