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Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series

Summary: Exathlon is the benchmark for explainable anomaly detection over time series, built on Spark traces with six anomaly types. Ground-truth root-cause and extended-effect labels enable AD/ED evaluation and end-to-end pipelines; demonstrated on three techniques. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h7c3fbfd06809c3db
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00010304574
Overall Rank
1,544 | 89.63%
DOI
10.14778/3476249.3476307

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BibTeX Citation

@article{jacob_vldb21,
        title = {{Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series}},
        author = {Jacob, Vincent and Song, Fei and Stiegler, Arnaud and Rad, Bijan and Diao, Yanlei and Tatbul, Nesime},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2613--2626},
        doi = {10.14778/3476249.3476307},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476249.3476307},
        year = {2021}
}

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1,740 TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data 2022 VLDB 9.7439205e-05
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3,726 Choose Wisely: An Extensive Evaluation of Model Selection for Anomaly Detection in Time Series 2023 VLDB 7.0701368e-05
5,559 ImDiffusion: Imputed Diffusion Models for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection 2024 VLDB 6.0849722e-05
6,073 AutoTSAD: Unsupervised Holistic Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data 2024 VLDB 5.8953069e-05
6,268 An Experimental Evaluation of Anomaly Detection in Time Series 2024 VLDB 5.8295994e-05
6,856 Sintel: A Machine Learning Framework to Extract Insights from Signals 2022 SIGMOD 5.6640937e-05
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8,515 TSGBench: Time Series Generation Benchmark 2024 VLDB 5.3251365e-05
9,338 A Demonstration of the Exathlon Benchmarking Platform for Explainable Anomaly Detection 2021 VLDB 5.1911033e-05
9,488 Time-Series Anomaly Detection: Overview and New Trends 2024 VLDB 5.1708619e-05
9,564 Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series across Heterogeneous Domains 2025 VLDB 5.1571823e-05
9,567 TAB: Unified Benchmarking of Time Series Anomaly Detection Methods 2025 VLDB 5.1571823e-05
10,510 The Power of Anomaly Detection in Predictive Maintenance: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,451 MLP-Mixer based Masked Autoencoders Are Effective, Explainable and Robust for Time Series Anomaly Detection 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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142 LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers 2000 SIGMOD 0.00029202746
189 Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries 2013 VLDB 0.00025840026
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878 Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes 2015 VLDB 0.00013302631
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1,702 BigBench: Towards an Industry Standard Benchmark for Big Data Analytics 2013 SIGMOD 9.8361594e-05
1,833 MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data 2017 SIGMOD 9.5405247e-05
1,857 Diagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in Cloud Databases 2020 VLDB 9.4929201e-05
2,222 Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases 2016 VLDB 8.8109051e-05
2,282 A Platform for Scalable One-Pass Analytics using MapReduce 2011 SIGMOD 8.6964781e-05
2,375 Series2Graph: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection for Time Series 2020 VLDB 8.555841e-05
4,609 ExplainIt! - A Declarative Root-cause Analysis Engine for Time Series Data 2019 SIGMOD 6.503039e-05
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