CALAD: Channel-Aware contrastive Learning for multivariate time series Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23139v1
• Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 01:38:05 GMT
• Title: CALAD: Channel-Aware contrastive Learning for multivariate time series Anomaly Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose CALAD, a channel-aware contrastive learning framework for time series anomaly detection.<n>Channel relevance is estimated from reconstruction errors of a transformer-based autoencoder.<n>Experiments on multiple real-world datasets shows that CALAD consistently outperforms existing methods.
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• Abstract: Multivariate time series anomaly detection has become increasingly important in real-world applications, where labeled data are often scarce. Many existing approaches rely on unsupervised learning to model normal patterns, but they often treat all channels equally. This design can dilute anomaly-relevant signals, since not all channels contribute equally to anomaly detection. In this paper, we propose CALAD, a channel-aware contrastive learning framework for multivariate time series anomaly detection. CALAD governs the construction of contrastive samples using estimated channel relevance, allowing the learning process to reflect anomaly semantics rather than generic similarity. Channel relevance is estimated from reconstruction errors of a transformer-based autoencoder and is used to distinguish channels that are more influential to anomalous behaviors. Using this information, we design a channel-wise augmentation strategy in which positive and negative samples are constructed based on whether anomaly-relevant channels are preserved or perturbed. This encourages invariance to changes in irrelevant channels while being sensitive to changes in anomaly-relevant channels. Furthermore, CALAD combines contrastive learning and an auxiliary reconstruction head, allowing the model to learn discriminative representations while retaining normal structures. Experiments on multiple real-world datasets shows that CALAD consistently outperforms existing methods, particularly under distribution shift scenarios. We provide the code for reproducibility at https://github.com/hirundo1218/CALAD

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