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

Summary: TranAD applies attention-based Transformer encoders to multivariate time-series anomaly detection and diagnosis, combining focus-score self-conditioning with adversarial training for robust, fast inference. MAML enables data-efficient learning, outperforming baselines by up to 17% F1 while cutting training time 99%. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12818
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 9.7435472e-05
Overall Rank: 1,793 | 87.70%
DOI: 10.14778/3514061.3514067

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Authors

1. Shreshth Tuli (Imperial College London)
2. Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London)
3. Nicholas R. Jennings (Loughborough University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{tuli_vldb22,
        title = {{TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data}},
        author = {Tuli, Shreshth and Casale, Giuliano and Jennings, Nicholas R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1201--1214},
        doi = {10.14778/3514061.3514067},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3514061.3514067},
        year = {2022}
}

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6,141	An Experimental Evaluation of Anomaly Detection in Time Series	2024	VLDB	5.9628456e-05
6,154	Multivariate Time Series Cleaning under Speed Constraints	2024	SIGMOD	5.9567243e-05
7,075	Flash-LLM: Enabling Cost-Effective and Highly-Efficient Large Generative Model Inference with Unstructured Sparsity	2024	VLDB	5.7099047e-05
7,908	Billion-Scale Bipartite Graph Embedding: A Global-Local Induced Approach	2024	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,517	OneShotSTL: One-Shot Seasonal-Trend Decomposition For Online Time Series Anomaly Detection And Forecasting	2023	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
9,379	Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series across Heterogeneous Domains	2025	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
9,382	TAB: Unified Benchmarking of Time Series Anomaly Detection Methods	2025	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
10,298	The Power of Anomaly Detection in Predictive Maintenance: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,372	From Suspicious Errors to Valid Data: On Repairing Spatio-Temporal Data via Spatial and Temporal Dependencies	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,500	SHoTClean: Bridging Soft and Hard Constraints for Multivariate Time Series Cleaning	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,629	MS-Index: Fast Top-k Subsequence Search for Multivariate Time Series under Euclidean Distance	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,747	A Structured Study of Multivariate Time-Series Distance Measures	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,784	The Best of Both Worlds: On Repairing Timestamps and Attribute Values for Multivariate Time Series	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,843	Streaming Time Series Subsequence Anomaly Detection: A Glance and Focus Approach	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,061	Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,099	MLP-Mixer based Masked Autoencoders Are Effective, Explainable and Robust for Time Series Anomaly Detection	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,266	DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,080	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00012257972
1,534	Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series	2021	VLDB	0.00010464308
1,805	SAND: Streaming Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2021	VLDB	9.7116108e-05
3,135	Real-Time Distance-Based Outlier Detection in Data Streams	2021	VLDB	7.7214053e-05
3,662	openGauss: An Autonomous Database System	2021	VLDB	7.2166682e-05
6,109	GraphAn: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2020	VLDB	5.9730493e-05

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