Leveraging Intermediate Representations of Time Series Foundation Models for Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12650v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:10:17 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Intermediate Representations of Time Series Foundation Models for Anomaly Detection
• Authors: Chan Sik Han, Keon Myung Lee,
• Abstract summary: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for anomaly detection.<n>We propose TimeRep, a novel anomaly detection approach that leverages the intermediate layer's representations of TSFMs.<n>TimeRep consistently outperforms a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art baselines.
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• Abstract: Detecting anomalies in time series data is essential for the reliable operation of many real-world systems. Recently, time series foundation models (TSFMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for anomaly detection. However, existing methods typically rely on the final layer's representations of TSFMs, computing the anomaly score as a reconstruction or forecasting error via a task-specific head. Instead, we propose TimeRep, a novel anomaly detection approach that leverages the intermediate layer's representations of TSFMs, computing the anomaly score as the distance between these representations. Given a pre-trained TSFM, TimeRep selects the intermediate layer and patch-token position that yield the most informative representation. TimeRep forms a reference collection of intermediate representations from the training data and applies a core-set strategy to reduce its size while maintaining distributional coverage. During inference, TimeRep computes the anomaly score for incoming data by measuring the distance between its intermediate representations and those of the collection. To address concept drift, TimeRep integrates an adaptation mechanism that, at inference time, augments the collection exclusively with non-redundant intermediate representations from incoming data. We conducted extensive experiments on the UCR Anomaly Archive, which contains 250 univariate time series. TimeRep consistently outperforms a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art baselines, including non-DL, DL, and foundation model-based methods.

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