Abnormality Forecasting: Time Series Anomaly Prediction via Future Context Modeling

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Main Authors: Zhao, Sinong, Wang, Wenrui, Xu, Hongzuo, Yu, Zhaoyang, Wen, Qingsong, Wang, Gang, Liu, xiaoguang, Pang, Guansong
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author Zhao, Sinong
Wang, Wenrui
Xu, Hongzuo
Yu, Zhaoyang
Wen, Qingsong
Wang, Gang
Liu, xiaoguang
Pang, Guansong
author_facet Zhao, Sinong
Wang, Wenrui
Xu, Hongzuo
Yu, Zhaoyang
Wen, Qingsong
Wang, Gang
Liu, xiaoguang
Pang, Guansong
contents Identifying anomalies from time series data plays an important role in various fields such as infrastructure security, intelligent operation and maintenance, and space exploration. Current research focuses on detecting the anomalies after they occur, which can lead to significant financial/reputation loss or infrastructure damage. In this work we instead study a more practical yet very challenging problem, time series anomaly prediction, aiming at providing early warnings for abnormal events before their occurrence. To tackle this problem, we introduce a novel principled approach, namely future context modeling (FCM). Its key insight is that the future abnormal events in a target window can be accurately predicted if their preceding observation window exhibits any subtle difference to normal data. To effectively capture such differences, FCM first leverages long-term forecasting models to generate a discriminative future context based on the observation data, aiming to amplify those subtle but unusual difference. It then models a normality correlation of the observation data with the forecasting future context to complement the normality modeling of the observation data in foreseeing possible abnormality in the target window. A joint variate-time attention learning is also introduced in FCM to leverage both temporal signals and features of the time series data for more discriminative normality modeling in the aforementioned two views. Comprehensive experiments on five datasets demonstrate that FCM gains good recall rate (70\%+) on multiple datasets and significantly outperforms all baselines in F1 score. Code is available at https://github.com/mala-lab/FCM.
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spellingShingle Abnormality Forecasting: Time Series Anomaly Prediction via Future Context Modeling
Zhao, Sinong
Wang, Wenrui
Xu, Hongzuo
Yu, Zhaoyang
Wen, Qingsong
Wang, Gang
Liu, xiaoguang
Pang, Guansong
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Identifying anomalies from time series data plays an important role in various fields such as infrastructure security, intelligent operation and maintenance, and space exploration. Current research focuses on detecting the anomalies after they occur, which can lead to significant financial/reputation loss or infrastructure damage. In this work we instead study a more practical yet very challenging problem, time series anomaly prediction, aiming at providing early warnings for abnormal events before their occurrence. To tackle this problem, we introduce a novel principled approach, namely future context modeling (FCM). Its key insight is that the future abnormal events in a target window can be accurately predicted if their preceding observation window exhibits any subtle difference to normal data. To effectively capture such differences, FCM first leverages long-term forecasting models to generate a discriminative future context based on the observation data, aiming to amplify those subtle but unusual difference. It then models a normality correlation of the observation data with the forecasting future context to complement the normality modeling of the observation data in foreseeing possible abnormality in the target window. A joint variate-time attention learning is also introduced in FCM to leverage both temporal signals and features of the time series data for more discriminative normality modeling in the aforementioned two views. Comprehensive experiments on five datasets demonstrate that FCM gains good recall rate (70\%+) on multiple datasets and significantly outperforms all baselines in F1 score. Code is available at https://github.com/mala-lab/FCM.
title Abnormality Forecasting: Time Series Anomaly Prediction via Future Context Modeling
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12206