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AI for Time Series and Anomaly Detection

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data | Vol 4, Issue 2

Table 2. Summary of Empirical Results

Model CategoryRepresentative ModelsPrimary StrengthsWeaknesses / LimitationsAverage Performance (F1 / RMSE)
Traditional StatisticalARIMA, Holt-WintersInterpretable, low complexityPoor scalability, weak with nonlinear dataF1 ≈ 0.60 / RMSE ↑ 15–20%
Machine LearningSVM, Random Forest, XGBoostModerate accuracy, interpretableHeavy feature engineeringF1 ≈ 0.75 / RMSE ↓ 10%
Deep SequentialLSTM, GRUCaptures temporal dependenciesSlow training, gradient issuesF1 ≈ 0.85 / RMSE ↓ 18%
Deep ConvolutionalTCNFast inference, robust to noiseLimited long-term contextF1 ≈ 0.88 / RMSE ↓ 20%
Transformer-BasedTFT, Informer, TimesNetHigh accuracy, interpretable via attentionComputationally expensiveF1 ≈ 0.91 / RMSE ↓ 25%
Generative / HybridAutoencoder, VAE, GANExcellent anomaly detectionHard to tune, interpretability issuesF1 ≈ 0.93 / RMSE ↓ 22%