Real-time Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Data Streams

Abstract: We present a real-time multivariate anomaly detection algorithm for data streams based on the Probabilistic Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (PEWMA). Our formulation is resilient to (abrupt transient, abrupt distributional, and gradual distributional) shifts in the data. The novel anomaly detection routines utilize an incremental online algorithm to handle streams. Furthermore, our proposed anomaly detection algorithm works in an unsupervised manner eliminating the need for labeled examples. Our algorithm performs well and is resilient in the face of concept drifts.