The paper surveys recent advances in time series anomaly detection (TSAD), highlighting new architectures such as diffusion models, state space models, and large language models. It introduces a refined anomaly taxonomy, evaluates existing metrics through extensive experiments, and releases an open-source benchmark with algorithms, datasets, and evaluation tools. The authors also identify open research challenges, including dynamic thresholding, interpretability, zero‑shot transfer, multi‑modal alignment, and foundational models for time series.
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.
arXiv:2603. 11756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep generative models for anomaly detection in multivariate time-series are typically trained by maximizing observed data likelihood.
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.
arXiv:2604. 14221v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable evaluation of anomaly detection methods in multivariate time series remains an open challenge, largely due to the limitations of existing benchmark datasets.
Structured Temporal Causality for Interpretable Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection introduces OracleAD, an unsupervised framework that encodes each variable’s past into a causal embedding to jointly predict the present and reconstruct the input window. The embeddings are projected via self‑attention into a shared latent space, capturing dynamic spatial relationships that are aligned to a Stable Latent Structure (SLS) representing normal-state relationships. Anomalies are detected through a dual scoring mechanism based on prediction error and deviation from the SLS, allowing fine‑grained diagnosis and root‑cause identification at the variable level.
arXiv:2601. 23204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series data are integral to critical applications across domains such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and environmental science.
arXiv:2610.01168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time Series Anomaly Detection has received increasing attention, driven by the growing availability of complex time series data. This surge has led t...
arXiv:2606. 18898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multivariate time series anomaly detection (MTSAD) is critical for a wide range of application areas, such as industrial monitoring, cybersecurity, or healthcare.
arXiv:2506. 00188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Early and accurate detection of anomalies in time-series data is critical due to the substantial risks associated with false or missed detections.
MORA is a drift‑robust time‑series anomaly detection framework that addresses the ambiguity between distribution drift and true anomalies by defining a temporal change disambiguation problem. It reconstructs a local target from paired short‑ and long‑term views, using the reconstruction gap as a measure of contextual support to adjust the primary anomaly score. The method requires no drift annotations or online adaptation and demonstrates strong robustness to non‑stationarity while maintaining sensitivity to genuine anomalies on four TSAD benchmarks.
arXiv:2606. 01300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series anomaly detection is a crucial task in various domains, including finance, healthcare, and industry.
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...