Real-Time Decorrelation-Based Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07559v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:56:40 GMT
• Title: Real-Time Decorrelation-Based Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series
• Authors: Amirhossein Sadough, Mahyar Shahsavari, Mark Wijtvliet, Marcel van Gerven,
• Abstract summary: Anomaly detection plays a vital role across a wide range of real-world domains.<n>Demand for real-time AD has surged with the rise of the (Industrial) Internet of Things.<n>We propose DAD, a novel real-time decorrelation-based anomaly detection method.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Anomaly detection (AD) plays a vital role across a wide range of real-world domains by identifying data instances that deviate from expected patterns, potentially signaling critical events such as system failures, fraudulent activities, or rare medical conditions. The demand for real-time AD has surged with the rise of the (Industrial) Internet of Things, where massive volumes of multivariate sensor data must be processed instantaneously. Real-time AD requires methods that not only handle high-dimensional streaming data but also operate in a single-pass manner, without the burden of storing historical instances, thereby ensuring minimal memory usage and fast decision-making. We propose DAD, a novel real-time decorrelation-based anomaly detection method for multivariate time series, based on an online decorrelation learning approach. Unlike traditional proximity-based or reconstruction-based detectors that process entire data or windowed instances, DAD dynamically learns and monitors the correlation structure of data sample by sample in a single pass, enabling efficient and effective detection. To support more realistic benchmarking practices, we also introduce a practical hyperparameter tuning strategy tailored for real-time anomaly detection scenarios. Extensive experiments on widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that DAD achieves the most consistent and superior performance across diverse anomaly types compared to state-of-the-art methods. Crucially, its robustness to increasing dimensionality makes it particularly well-suited for real-time, high-dimensional data streams. Ultimately, DAD not only strikes an optimal balance between detection efficacy and computational efficiency but also sets a new standard for real-time, memory-constrained anomaly detection.

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