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: 12631
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 9.0922439e-05
Overall Rank: 2,289 | 84.10%
DOI: 10.14778/3514061.3514067

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5,785	ImDiffusion: Imputed Diffusion Models for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection	2024	VLDB	5.3257637e-05
6,435	An Experimental Evaluation of Anomaly Detection in Time Series	2024	VLDB	5.0555305e-05
6,447	Multivariate Time Series Cleaning under Speed Constraints	2024	SIGMOD	5.0534784e-05
7,143	Flash-LLM: Enabling Cost-Effective and Highly-Efficient Large Generative Model Inference with Unstructured Sparsity	2024	VLDB	4.8143774e-05
7,483	Billion-Scale Bipartite Graph Embedding: A Global-Local Induced Approach	2024	VLDB	4.7135369e-05
8,279	OneShotSTL: One-Shot Seasonal-Trend Decomposition For Online Time Series Anomaly Detection And Forecasting	2023	VLDB	4.5392079e-05
10,081	From Suspicious Errors to Valid Data: On Repairing Spatio-Temporal Data via Spatial and Temporal Dependencies	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,211	SHoTClean: Bridging Soft and Hard Constraints for Multivariate Time Series Cleaning	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,343	MS-Index: Fast Top-k Subsequence Search for Multivariate Time Series under Euclidean Distance	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,476	A Structured Study of Multivariate Time-Series Distance Measures	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,520	The Best of Both Worlds: On Repairing Timestamps and Attribute Values for Multivariate Time Series	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,578	Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series across Heterogeneous Domains	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,588	Streaming Time Series Subsequence Anomaly Detection: A Glance and Focus Approach	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,645	TAB: Unified Benchmarking of Time Series Anomaly Detection Methods	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,839	Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,880	MLP-Mixer based Masked Autoencoders Are Effective, Explainable and Robust for Time Series Anomaly Detection	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,062	DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,228	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00013158624
1,640	Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series	2021	VLDB	0.00011048873
2,032	SAND: Streaming Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2021	VLDB	9.7320795e-05
3,472	Real-Time Distance-Based Outlier Detection in Data Streams	2021	VLDB	7.062401e-05
4,151	openGauss: An Autonomous Database System	2021	VLDB	6.4020605e-05
6,115	GraphAn: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2020	VLDB	5.1995458e-05

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