Self-Supervised Time-Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Data Augmentation
This addresses the challenge of scarce abnormal and labeled data in industrial settings, offering a practical solution for productivity and safety improvements.
The paper tackles the problem of anomaly detection in time-series data for manufacturing processes by proposing a self-supervised technique with learnable data augmentation, achieving comparable or improved performance to state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.
Continuous efforts are being made to advance anomaly detection in various manufacturing processes to increase the productivity and safety of industrial sites. Deep learning replaced rule-based methods and recently emerged as a promising method for anomaly detection in diverse industries. However, in the real world, the scarcity of abnormal data and difficulties in obtaining labeled data create limitations in the training of detection models. In this study, we addressed these shortcomings by proposing a learnable data augmentation-based time-series anomaly detection (LATAD) technique that is trained in a self-supervised manner. LATAD extracts discriminative features from time-series data through contrastive learning. At the same time, learnable data augmentation produces challenging negative samples to enhance learning efficiency. We measured anomaly scores of the proposed technique based on latent feature similarities. As per the results, LATAD exhibited comparable or improved performance to the state-of-the-art anomaly detection assessments on several benchmark datasets and provided a gradient-based diagnosis technique to help identify root causes.