Harnessing Feature Clustering For Enhanced Anomaly Detection With Variational Autoencoder And Dynamic Threshold
<|reference_start|>Harnessing Feature Clustering For Enhanced Anomaly Detection With Variational Autoencoder And Dynamic Threshold: We introduce an anomaly detection method for multivariate time series data with the aim of identifying critical periods and features influencing extreme climate events like snowmelt in the Arctic. This method leverages the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) integrated with dynamic thresholding and correlation-based feature clustering. This framework enhances the VAE's ability to identify localized dependencies and learn the temporal relationships in climate data, thereby improving the detection of anomalies as demonstrated by its higher F1-score on benchmark datasets. The study's main contributions include the development of a robust anomaly detection method, improving feature representation within VAEs through clustering, and creating a dynamic threshold algorithm for localized anomaly detection. This method offers explainability of climate anomalies across different regions.<|reference_end|>
@article{ale2024harnessing,
    title={Harnessing Feature Clustering For Enhanced Anomaly Detection With
  Variational Autoencoder And Dynamic Threshold},
    author={Tolulope Ale (1), Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel (2), Vandana P. Janeja (1)
  ((1) University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore MD USA, (2) National
  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  Princeton NJ USA)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10042},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.10042},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.IR}
}