# KDSelector: A Knowledge-Enhanced and Data-Efficient Model Selector Learning Framework for Time Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12478 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.12478/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 10 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Mar 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.03748/) (2018)
- [InfoBatch: Lossless Training Speed Up by Unbiased Dynamic Data Pruning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.04947/) (2023)
- [A Shapelet-based Framework for Unsupervised Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18888/) (2023)
- [UniTS: A Universal Time Series Analysis Framework Powered by Self-Supervised Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13804/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [LLM-Assisted Logic Rule Learning: Scaling Human Expertise for Time Series Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.19255/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Model selection has been raised as an essential problem in the area of time series anomaly detection (TSAD), because there is no single best TSAD model for the highly heterogeneous time series in real-world applications. However, despite the success of existing model selection solutions that train a classification model (especially neural network, NN) using historical data as a selector to predict the correct TSAD model for each series, the NN-based selector learning methods used by existing solutions do not make full use of the knowledge in the historical data and require iterating over all training samples, which limits the accuracy and training speed of the selector. To address these limitations, we propose KDSelector, a novel knowledge-enhanced and data-efficient framework for learning the NN-based TSAD model selector, of which three key components are specifically designed to integrate available knowledge into the selector and dynamically prune less important and redundant samples during the learning. We develop a TSAD model selection system with KDSelector as the internal, to demonstrate how users improve the accuracy and training speed of their selectors by using KDSelector as a plug-and-play module. Our demonstration video is hosted at https://youtu.be/2uqupDWvTF0.
