Causality-Aware Contrastive Learning for Robust Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection

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Autores principales: Kim, HyunGi, Mok, Jisoo, Lee, Dongjun, Lew, Jaihyun, Kim, Sungjae, Yoon, Sungroh
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author Kim, HyunGi
Mok, Jisoo
Lee, Dongjun
Lew, Jaihyun
Kim, Sungjae
Yoon, Sungroh
author_facet Kim, HyunGi
Mok, Jisoo
Lee, Dongjun
Lew, Jaihyun
Kim, Sungjae
Yoon, Sungroh
contents Utilizing the complex inter-variable causal relationships within multivariate time-series provides a promising avenue toward more robust and reliable multivariate time-series anomaly detection (MTSAD) but remains an underexplored area of research. This paper proposes Causality-Aware contrastive learning for RObust multivariate Time-Series (CAROTS), a novel MTSAD pipeline that incorporates the notion of causality into contrastive learning. CAROTS employs two data augmentors to obtain causality-preserving and -disturbing samples that serve as a wide range of normal variations and synthetic anomalies, respectively. With causality-preserving and -disturbing samples as positives and negatives, CAROTS performs contrastive learning to train an encoder whose latent space separates normal and abnormal samples based on causality. Moreover, CAROTS introduces a similarity-filtered one-class contrastive loss that encourages the contrastive learning process to gradually incorporate more semantically diverse samples with common causal relationships. Extensive experiments on five real-world and two synthetic datasets validate that the integration of causal relationships endows CAROTS with improved MTSAD capabilities. The code is available at https://github.com/kimanki/CAROTS.
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spellingShingle Causality-Aware Contrastive Learning for Robust Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection
Kim, HyunGi
Mok, Jisoo
Lee, Dongjun
Lew, Jaihyun
Kim, Sungjae
Yoon, Sungroh
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Utilizing the complex inter-variable causal relationships within multivariate time-series provides a promising avenue toward more robust and reliable multivariate time-series anomaly detection (MTSAD) but remains an underexplored area of research. This paper proposes Causality-Aware contrastive learning for RObust multivariate Time-Series (CAROTS), a novel MTSAD pipeline that incorporates the notion of causality into contrastive learning. CAROTS employs two data augmentors to obtain causality-preserving and -disturbing samples that serve as a wide range of normal variations and synthetic anomalies, respectively. With causality-preserving and -disturbing samples as positives and negatives, CAROTS performs contrastive learning to train an encoder whose latent space separates normal and abnormal samples based on causality. Moreover, CAROTS introduces a similarity-filtered one-class contrastive loss that encourages the contrastive learning process to gradually incorporate more semantically diverse samples with common causal relationships. Extensive experiments on five real-world and two synthetic datasets validate that the integration of causal relationships endows CAROTS with improved MTSAD capabilities. The code is available at https://github.com/kimanki/CAROTS.
title Causality-Aware Contrastive Learning for Robust Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03964