Vacuum Spiker: A Spiking Neural Network-Based Model for Efficient Anomaly Detection in Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06910v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:43:54 GMT
• Title: Vacuum Spiker: A Spiking Neural Network-Based Model for Efficient Anomaly Detection in Time Series
• Authors: Iago Xabier Vázquez, Javier Sedano, Muhammad Afzal, Ángel Miguel García-Vico,
• Abstract summary: Anomaly detection is a key task across domains such as industry, healthcare, and cybersecurity.<n>This paper introduces the textitVacuum Spiker algorithm, a novel Spiking Neural Network-based method for anomaly detection in time series.<n>It incorporates a new detection criterion that relies on global changes in neural activity rather than reconstruction or prediction error.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Anomaly detection is a key task across domains such as industry, healthcare, and cybersecurity. Many real-world anomaly detection problems involve analyzing multiple features over time, making time series analysis a natural approach for such problems. While deep learning models have achieved strong performance in this field, their trend to exhibit high energy consumption limits their deployment in resource-constrained environments such as IoT devices, edge computing platforms, and wearables. To address this challenge, this paper introduces the \textit{Vacuum Spiker algorithm}, a novel Spiking Neural Network-based method for anomaly detection in time series. It incorporates a new detection criterion that relies on global changes in neural activity rather than reconstruction or prediction error. It is trained using Spike Time-Dependent Plasticity in a novel way, intended to induce changes in neural activity when anomalies occur. A new efficient encoding scheme is also proposed, which discretizes the input space into non-overlapping intervals, assigning each to a single neuron. This strategy encodes information with a single spike per time step, improving energy efficiency compared to conventional encoding methods. Experimental results on publicly available datasets show that the proposed algorithm achieves competitive performance while significantly reducing energy consumption, compared to a wide set of deep learning and machine learning baselines. Furthermore, its practical utility is validated in a real-world case study, where the model successfully identifies power curtailment events in a solar inverter. These results highlight its potential for sustainable and efficient anomaly detection.

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