Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Prediction with Importance-based Generative Contrastive Learning

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Main Authors: Zhao, Kai, Zhuang, Zhihao, Guo, Chenjuan, Miao, Hao, Cheng, Yunyao, Yang, Bin
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author Zhao, Kai
Zhuang, Zhihao
Guo, Chenjuan
Miao, Hao
Cheng, Yunyao
Yang, Bin
author_facet Zhao, Kai
Zhuang, Zhihao
Guo, Chenjuan
Miao, Hao
Cheng, Yunyao
Yang, Bin
contents Time series anomaly prediction plays an essential role in many real-world scenarios, such as environmental prevention and prompt maintenance of cyber-physical systems. However, existing time series anomaly prediction methods mainly require supervised training with plenty of manually labeled data, which are difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, unseen anomalies can occur during inference, which could differ from the labeled training data and make these models fail to predict such new anomalies. In this paper, we study a novel problem of unsupervised time series anomaly prediction. We provide a theoretical analysis and propose Importance-based Generative Contrastive Learning (IGCL) to address the aforementioned problems. IGCL distinguishes between normal and anomaly precursors, which are generated by our anomaly precursor pattern generation module. To address the efficiency issues caused by the potential complex anomaly precursor combinations, we propose a memory bank with importance-based scores to adaptively store representative anomaly precursors and generate more complicated anomaly precursors. Extensive experiments on seven benchmark datasets show our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on unsupervised time series anomaly prediction problems.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Prediction with Importance-based Generative Contrastive Learning
Zhao, Kai
Zhuang, Zhihao
Guo, Chenjuan
Miao, Hao
Cheng, Yunyao
Yang, Bin
Machine Learning
Time series anomaly prediction plays an essential role in many real-world scenarios, such as environmental prevention and prompt maintenance of cyber-physical systems. However, existing time series anomaly prediction methods mainly require supervised training with plenty of manually labeled data, which are difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, unseen anomalies can occur during inference, which could differ from the labeled training data and make these models fail to predict such new anomalies. In this paper, we study a novel problem of unsupervised time series anomaly prediction. We provide a theoretical analysis and propose Importance-based Generative Contrastive Learning (IGCL) to address the aforementioned problems. IGCL distinguishes between normal and anomaly precursors, which are generated by our anomaly precursor pattern generation module. To address the efficiency issues caused by the potential complex anomaly precursor combinations, we propose a memory bank with importance-based scores to adaptively store representative anomaly precursors and generate more complicated anomaly precursors. Extensive experiments on seven benchmark datasets show our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on unsupervised time series anomaly prediction problems.
title Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Prediction with Importance-based Generative Contrastive Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16888