Deep Time Series Anomaly Detection with Local Temporal Pattern Learning

Self-supervised time series anomaly detection (TSAD) demonstrates remarkable performance improvement by extracting high-level data semantics through proxy tasks. Nonetheless, most existing self-supervised TSAD techniques rely on manual- or neural-based transformations when designing proxy tasks, overlooking the intrinsic temporal patterns of time series. This paper proposes a local temporal pattern learning-based time series anomaly detection (LTPAD). LTPAD first generates sub-sequences. Pairwise sub-sequences naturally manifest proximity relationships along the time axis, and such correlations can be used to construct supervision and train neural networks to facilitate the learning of temporal patterns. Time intervals between two sub-sequences serve as labels for sub-sequence pairs. By classifying these labeled data pairs, our model captures the local temporal patterns of time series, thereby modeling the temporal pattern-aware "normality". Abnormal scores of testing data are acquired by evaluating their conformity to these learned patterns shared in training data. Extensive experiments show that LTPAD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art competitors.