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Data Mining & Knowledge Management: Anomaly/Outlier DetectionMachine Learning: Multimodal LearningReasoning under Uncertainty: Relational Probabilistic Models
Real-Time Proactive Anomaly Detection via Forward and Backward Forecast Modeling
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This work addresses the limitations of existing anomaly detection approaches, which are predominantly reactive and thus ill-suited for early intervention in critical domains such as industrial monitoring, finance, and cybersecurity. While proactive methods exist, their accuracy remains constrained in heterogeneous multivariate settings under noisy conditions. To overcome these challenges, the authors propose a novel bidirectional modeling framework that integrates a forward forecasting model (FFM) and a backward reconstruction model (BRM). Leveraging TCN, GRU, and Transformer encoders, the framework jointly captures future trends and historical context—marking the first integration of forward prediction and backward reconstruction for anomaly symptom identification. The method accommodates both continuous and discrete multivariate features and achieves state-of-the-art performance across four benchmarks (MSL, SMAP, SMD, and PSM), significantly improving detection accuracy while enhancing early warning capability and timeliness in complex, noisy environments.
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📝 Abstract
Reactive anomaly detection methods, which are commonly deployed to identify anomalies after they occur based on observed deviations, often fall short in applications that demand timely intervention, such as industrial monitoring, finance, and cybersecurity. Proactive anomaly detection, by contrast, aims to detect early warning signals before failures fully manifest, but existing methods struggle with handling heterogeneous multivariate data and maintaining precision under noisy or unpredictable conditions. In this work, we introduce two proactive anomaly detection frameworks: the Forward Forecasting Model (FFM) and the Backward Reconstruction Model (BRM). Both models leverage a hybrid architecture combining Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs), Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and Transformer encoders to model directional temporal dynamics. FFM forecasts future sequences to anticipate disruptions, while BRM reconstructs recent history from future context to uncover early precursors. Anomalies are flagged based on forecasting error magnitudes and directional embedding discrepancies. Our models support both continuous and discrete multivariate features, enabling robust performance in real-world settings. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets, MSL, SMAP, SMD, and PSM, demonstrate that FFM and BRM outperform state-of-the-art baselines across detection metrics and significantly improve the timeliness of anomaly anticipation. These properties make our approach well-suited for deployment in time-sensitive domains requiring proactive monitoring.
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proactive anomaly detection
multivariate time series
real-time monitoring
anomaly anticipation
noisy data
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Proactive Anomaly Detection
Temporal Convolutional Networks
Transformer Encoders
Forward Forecasting Model
Backward Reconstruction Model
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