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Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Railway Systems: A Structured Survey

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This survey reviews deep learning methods for detecting anomalies in railway systems, organizing them by taxonomy of anomaly location, data representation, sensing modality, and temporal traits. It categorizes approaches—convolutional, recurrent, attention-based, autoencoders, GANs, transformers—into classification, prediction, reconstruction, and hybrid paradigms, and discusses data challenges, evaluation, metrics, and deployment issues such as edge‑cloud architectures and hardware constraints. The paper also offers a decision‑oriented framework linking anomaly characteristics, data properties, and operational constraints to guide the selection and deployment of suitable detection solutions.

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