# Robust Audio Anomaly Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01784 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.01784/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Feb 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.0473/) (2014)
- [Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.05770/) (2015)
- [DeepAR: Probabilistic Forecasting with Autoregressive Recurrent Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.04110/) (2017)
- [Masked Autoregressive Flow for Density Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.07057/) (2017)
- [Memorizing Normality to Detect Anomaly: Memory-augmented Deep Autoencoder for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02639/) (2019)
- [Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.09136/) (2018)
- [MADE: Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1502.03509/) (2015)
- [Efficient Neural Audio Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08435/) (2018)
- [A Deep Neural Network for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis in Multivariate Time Series Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.08055/) (2018)
- [MIMII Dataset: Sound Dataset for Malfunctioning Industrial Machine Investigation and Inspection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.09347/) (2019)
- [ToyADMOS: A Dataset of Miniature-Machine Operating Sounds for Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.03299/) (2019)
- [Description and Discussion on DCASE2020 Challenge Task2: Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.05822/) (2020)
- [A Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04261/) (2018)
- [AdaFlow: Domain-Adaptive Density Estimator with Application to Anomaly Detection and Unpaired Cross-Domain Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.05796/) (2018)
- [Anomaly Detection at Scale: The Case for Deep Distributional Time Series Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.15541/) (2020)
- [Recurrent Estimation of Distributions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.10750/) (2017)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Deep Generic Representations for Domain-Generalized Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.05035/) (2024)
- [Sub-Band Spectral Matching with Localized Score Aggregation for Robust Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.13749/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose an outlier robust multivariate time series model which can be used for detecting previously unseen anomalous sounds based on noisy training data. The presented approach doesn't assume the presence of labeled anomalies in the training dataset and uses a novel deep neural network architecture to learn the temporal dynamics of the multivariate time series at multiple resolutions while being robust to contaminations in the training dataset. The temporal dynamics are modeled using recurrent layers augmented with attention mechanism. These recurrent layers are built on top of convolutional layers allowing the network to extract features at multiple resolutions. The output of the network is an outlier robust probability density function modeling the conditional probability of future samples given the time series history. State-of-the-art approaches using other multiresolution architectures are contrasted with our proposed approach. We validate our solution using publicly available machine sound datasets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in anomaly detection by comparing against several state-of-the-art models.