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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
0.00010265663
Overall Rank
1,548 | 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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3,734 Choose Wisely: An Extensive Evaluation of Model Selection for Anomaly Detection in Time Series 2023 VLDB 7.0434227e-05
5,577 ImDiffusion: Imputed Diffusion Models for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection 2024 VLDB 6.0619804e-05
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6,878 Sintel: A Machine Learning Framework to Extract Insights from Signals 2022 SIGMOD 5.6426922e-05
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8,537 TSGBench: Time Series Generation Benchmark 2024 VLDB 5.3050158e-05
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9,528 Time-Series Anomaly Detection: Overview and New Trends 2024 VLDB 5.151324e-05
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10,587 The Power of Anomaly Detection in Predictive Maintenance: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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143 LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers 2000 SIGMOD 0.00029095978
191 Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries 2013 VLDB 0.0002578784
596 Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark 2004 VLDB 0.00015766455
879 Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes 2015 VLDB 0.00013255435
1,482 Distance-based Outlier Detection in Data Streams 2016 VLDB 0.00010501175
1,707 BigBench: Towards an Industry Standard Benchmark for Big Data Analytics 2013 SIGMOD 9.8031942e-05
1,771 Diagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in Cloud Databases 2020 VLDB 9.6775181e-05
1,844 MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data 2017 SIGMOD 9.5112726e-05
2,233 Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases 2016 VLDB 8.7844607e-05
2,299 A Platform for Scalable One-Pass Analytics using MapReduce 2011 SIGMOD 8.6639611e-05
2,388 Series2Graph: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection for Time Series 2020 VLDB 8.52352e-05
4,615 ExplainIt! - A Declarative Root-cause Analysis Engine for Time Series Data 2019 SIGMOD 6.4853581e-05
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