TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data

Summary: TranAD: transformer-based anomaly detection for multivariate time series. Unique: attention-based encoders, self-conditioning, adversarial training, and MAML for limited-data learning; gains up to 17% F1 and 99% faster training on six datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12630
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 9.0934125e-05
Overall Rank: 2,290 | 84.08%
DOI: 10.14778/3514061.3514067

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5,777	ImDiffusion: Imputed Diffusion Models for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection	2024	VLDB	5.3308813e-05
6,440	An Experimental Evaluation of Anomaly Detection in Time Series	2024	VLDB	5.0603878e-05
6,451	Multivariate Time Series Cleaning under Speed Constraints	2024	SIGMOD	5.0583324e-05
7,152	Flash-LLM: Enabling Cost-Effective and Highly-Efficient Large Generative Model Inference with Unstructured Sparsity	2024	VLDB	4.8154191e-05
7,933	Billion-Scale Bipartite Graph Embedding: A Global-Local Induced Approach	2024	VLDB	4.613363e-05
8,286	OneShotSTL: One-Shot Seasonal-Trend Decomposition For Online Time Series Anomaly Detection And Forecasting	2023	VLDB	4.5435639e-05
10,081	From Suspicious Errors to Valid Data: On Repairing Spatio-Temporal Data via Spatial and Temporal Dependencies	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,211	SHoTClean: Bridging Soft and Hard Constraints for Multivariate Time Series Cleaning	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,331	MS-Index: Fast Top-k Subsequence Search for Multivariate Time Series under Euclidean Distance	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,466	A Structured Study of Multivariate Time-Series Distance Measures	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,511	The Best of Both Worlds: On Repairing Timestamps and Attribute Values for Multivariate Time Series	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,569	Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series across Heterogeneous Domains	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,579	Streaming Time Series Subsequence Anomaly Detection: A Glance and Focus Approach	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,637	TAB: Unified Benchmarking of Time Series Anomaly Detection Methods	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,835	Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,876	MLP-Mixer based Masked Autoencoders Are Effective, Explainable and Robust for Time Series Anomaly Detection	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,059	DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,227	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00013170695
1,634	Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series	2021	VLDB	0.00011058945
2,029	SAND: Streaming Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2021	VLDB	9.740868e-05
3,468	Real-Time Distance-Based Outlier Detection in Data Streams	2021	VLDB	7.0686044e-05
4,152	openGauss: An Autonomous Database System	2021	VLDB	6.4060406e-05
6,116	GraphAn: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2020	VLDB	5.2039218e-05

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