TranAD

This repository supplements our paper "TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data" accepted in VLDB 2022. This is a refactored version of the code used for results in the paper for ease of use. Follow the below steps to replicate each cell in the results table.

Our work has been discussed in the PodBean podcast! See here.

Results

Installation

1. Download and install the latest Anaconda Python distribution
2. Execute the following commands to install all software requirements:

cd TranAD
conda env create

Dataset Preprocessing

Change directory to the root of the source code directory and activate the tran_ad virtual environment:

cd TranAD
conda activate tran_ad

Preprocess all datasets using the command:

python preprocess.py SMAP MSL SWaT WADI SMD MSDS UCR MBA NAB

Distribution rights to some datasets may not be available. Check the readme files in the ./data/ folder for more details. If you want to ignore a dataset, remove it from the above command to ensure that the preprocessing does not fail.

Result Reproduction

Change directory to the root of the source code directory and activate the tran_ad virtual environment:

cd TranAD
conda activate tran_ad

To run a model on a dataset, run the following command:

python main.py --model <model> --dataset <dataset> --retrain

where <model> can be either of 'TranAD', 'GDN', 'MAD_GAN', 'MTAD_GAT', 'MSCRED', 'USAD', 'OmniAnomaly', 'LSTM_AD', and dataset can be one of 'SMAP', 'MSL', 'SWaT', 'WADI', 'SMD', 'MSDS', 'MBA', 'UCR' and 'NAB. To train with 20% data, use the following command

python main.py --model <model> --dataset <dataset> --retrain --less

You can use the parameters in src/params.json to set values in src/constants.py for each file.

Note: to reproduce exact results of baselines, use their original codebases (links given in our paper) as the ones implemented in this repository are not the ones used in the paper, which used the original versions. The versions provided here are for use of initial comparison and may not be identical to the original versions.

For ablation studies, use the following models: 'TranAD_SelfConditioning', 'TranAD_Adversarial', 'TranAD_Transformer', 'TranAD_Basic'.

The output will provide anomaly detection and diagnosis scores and training time. For example:

$ python main.py --model TranAD --dataset SMAP --retrain 
Using backend: pytorch
Creating new model: TranAD
Training TranAD on SMAP
Epoch 0,        L1 = 0.09839354782306504
Epoch 1,        L1 = 0.039524692888342115
Epoch 2,        L1 = 0.022258711623482686
Epoch 3,        L1 = 0.01833707226553135
Epoch 4,        L1 = 0.016330517334598792
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5/5 [00:03<00:00,  1.57it/s]
Training time:     3.1920 s
Testing TranAD on SMAP
{'FN': 0,
 'FP': 182,
 'Hit@100%': 1.0,
 'Hit@150%': 1.0,
 'NDCG@100%': 0.9999999999999999,
 'NDCG@150%': 0.9999999999999999,
 'TN': 7575,
 'TP': 748,
 'f1': 0.8915325929177795,
 'precision': 0.8043010666204187,
 'recall': 0.9999999866310163,
 'threshold': 0.16133320075167037}

All outputs can be run multiple times to ensure statistical significance.

Supplementary video

Cite this work

Our paper is available in the Proceedings of VLDB: http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p1201-tuli.pdf. If you use this work, please cite using the following bibtex entry.

@article{tuli2022tranad,
  title={{TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data}},
  author={Tuli, Shreshth and Casale, Giuliano and Jennings, Nicholas R},
  journal={Proceedings of VLDB},
  volume={15},
  number={6},
  pages={1201-1214},
  year={2022}
}

License

BSD-3-Clause. Copyright (c) 2022, Shreshth Tuli. All rights reserved.

See License file for more details.