arXiv Preprint Proposes SHAD Benchmark for Time Series Anomaly Detection
The October 1 2026 preprint introduces SHAD a dataset of 215 multivariate high-dimensional time series from real-world cloud storage systems. It aims to address gaps in…
- SHAD supplies rich contextual annotations that prior time-series benchmarks largely omitted enabling human-understandable anomaly interpretations.
- The preprint abstract outlines plans to evaluate detection explainability and interpretability stages on the new dataset.
- Practitioners should test any SHAD-derived tool on their own data distributions as generalization beyond cloud storage telemetry remains unproven.
Preprint Identifies Benchmark Limitations
Time series anomaly detection has seen growing interest due to complex data availability leading to many detection methods and evaluation benchmarks. However most existing detectors ignore domain context and overlook explainability and interpretability.
Current benchmarks primarily focus on detection accuracy. Only few evaluate spatial explainability and none provide sufficiently rich semantic annotations to support human-understandable interpretations of anomalies according to the abstract.
Introduction of the SHAD Benchmark
To address these limitations the preprint introduces SHAD the Scality High-dimensional Anomaly Detection benchmark. It consists of 215 multivariate high-dimensional time series collected from real-world distributed cloud storage systems operated by Scality.
The dataset includes rich contextual information covering three families of anomalies with varying degrees of severity. This fully annotated resource is positioned as a step toward supporting both explainability and interpretability in future work.
Foundation for Pipeline Evaluation
The authors state they provide a foundation by evaluating baseline methods for detection explainability and interpretability covering all stages of a time series anomaly detection pipeline. This evidence is an abstract-only preprint capture and does not include the full paper or independent replication.
The abstract notes that detection uses a wide range of existing anomaly detectors on the real-world dataset while explainability considers dimension contributions to anomaly scores and interpretability investigates frozen LLM baselines. All such details remain limited to the supplied abstract.
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