Papers for

industrial iot operators

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Adaptive trend analysis improves anomaly detection in time series data

AdaTrendLike: Adaptive Hierarchical Detrending and Trend Likelihood Scoring for Time Series Anomaly Detection

Abstract: The rapid proliferation of Industrial Internet of Things devices has led to increasingly large-scale and non-stationary time-series data, posing significant challenges for time-series anomaly detection (TSAD). Existing approaches often focus on reconstructing or forecasting observations while overlooking the role of trend dynamics, which constitute a major source of non-stationarity and contain valuable information for anomaly identification. To address this limitation, we propose AdaTrendLike, a TSAD framework that directly estimates trend likelihoods for anomaly detection. Specifically, we introduce Standardization Embedding to capture local statistical characteristics as latent representations and AdaDetrending to adaptively decompose input series into trend and detrended components. The detrended component is processed through a Fast Fourier Transform and a complex-valued convolutional neural network to learn normal periodic patterns, while TrendEst models the distribution of the trend component. Based on the estimated distribution, TrendLike computes anomaly scores by measuring the likelihood of observed trends, enabling effective detection of deviations from normal behavior. In addition to improving detection performance, the proposed framework provides feature-level interpretability by identifying anomalies through deviations in the estimated trend distribution. Extensive experiments on five public benchmark datasets demonstrate that AdaTrendLike consistently outperforms state-of-the-art TSAD methods, validating its effectiveness and robustness across diverse application scenarios.

Mon 26 OctArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Detecting unusual patterns in data that change over time can be hard when the data includes trends that shift unpredictably. The authors describe a system, AdaTrendLike, that first separates these trends from other patterns and then checks how likely the trends are to be normal. This helps find problems more accurately and explains why something is seen as unusual. Tests on many datasets showed it works better than previous methods.
Open → 2610.35400v1

Edge computing boosts cybersecurity with trust based federated intrusion detection

Cybersecurity in Edge Computing: A Trust-Aware Federated Hybrid Intrusion Detection Framework

Abstract: Edge computing has emerged as a critical computing paradigm in modern distributed systems by migrating data processing closer to end users and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. While this paradigm decentralizes processes, minimizes latency, and reduces backhaul bandwidth congestion, it exponentially enlarges the cyberattack surface. Heterogeneous, resource-constrained edge devices deployed across unmanaged administrative domains present highly vulnerable targets. To address these vulnerabilities without compromising global data privacy regulations, this paper proposes a novel Trust-Aware Federated Hybrid Intrusion Detection Framework (TA-FHIDF). The proposed framework integrates an Autoencoder, a 1D Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN), and a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model into a unified, localized deep learning engine capable of autonomous spatial and temporal feature extraction. Model training is performed collaboratively via federated learning, ensuring raw network telemetry remains isolated at local gateways. Furthermore, to defend against adversarial model poisoning attacks, we introduce a robust server-side trust-aware aggregation mechanism that evaluates client reliability using a cosine similarity metric before global model integration. Empirical evaluations across multi-vector benchmark datasets (UNSW-NB15, CICIDS2017, and Edge-IIoTset) demonstrate the framework's superior detection accuracy, rapid convergence, and high Byzantine fault tolerance under adversarial attack scenarios.

Wed 30 SeptCryptography and SecurityMachine Learning
The gist
Edge computing moves data processing closer to devices but increases risks of cyberattacks on vulnerable devices. The authors have created a combined system that uses smart learning models to detect attacks locally while sharing learning progress without exposing raw data. They also developed a way to trust which devices contribute to learning to prevent attackers from corrupting the system. Tested on multiple cybersecurity datasets, their approach detects attacks accurately and handles attempts to poison the learning process.
Open → 2609.39584v1