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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

dStructAD: Domain-Level Structured Normality Representation with Variation Calibration for Time Series Anomaly Detection

Shiwang Xing, Jianwei Niu, Tao Ren

Abstract

Time Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) is critical for ensuring reliability in real-world systems such as industrial monitoring, healthcare, and online services. However, learning-based TSAD methods trained on a single normal-only TargetSet, namely the target dataset, often suffer from incomplete and biased knowledge of normality, causing domain-level false alarms when unseen but valid normal patterns appear at test time. A natural extension is to leverage DomainSet, composed of datasets from one domain, to enrich domain-level normality. Yet, our analysis shows that simply incorporating DomainSet could make domain-admissible normal variations and TargetSet-specific anomalies highly entangled in the learned representations, weakening anomaly separability. Motivated by human experts who establish normal patterns, calibrate admissible variations, and identify true anomalies, we propose dStructAD, a domain-level structured representation framework for time series anomaly detection, to address this challenge. Specifically, dStructAD first builds structured domain-level normality based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold network, and then calibrates admissible variations via two phases. Phase 1 learns shared domain-level semi-structural normality knowledge from DomainSet, while Phase 2 performs structure-preserving TargetSet calibration to absorb admissible variations without collapsing anomaly separability. Across six benchmarks, dStructAD delivers consistent improvements over SOTAs, with 3% average gain in overall performance. Code could be available at [https://anonymous.4open.science/r/dStructAD-8F03](https://anonymous.4open.science/r/dStructAD-8F03).

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