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arxiv: 2606.04073 · v1 · pith:CWDMIA7Gnew · submitted 2026-06-02 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· stat.ML

TPA-AD: A Two-Stage Pseudo Anomaly-Guided Method for Bearing Time-Series Anomaly Detection

Xiancheng Wang , Zhibo Zhang , Ran Li , Rui Wang , Minghang Zhao , Shisheng Zhong , Lin Wang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AIstat.ML
keywords anomaly detectiontime seriespseudo anomaliescontrastive learningbearing fault detectionunsupervised learningmixed variablesdegradation monitoring
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The pith

A two-stage method generates pseudo-anomalies near the normal boundary to learn anomaly-sensitive representations for time-series detection using only normal training data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents TPA-AD, a method for detecting anomalies in bearing time-series data when only normal samples are available during training. It first builds pseudo-anomalous windows close to the normal data boundary by using a reconstruction model with controlled per-feature errors. These synthetic examples then drive a contrastive learning stage that produces representations distinguishing normal from anomalous patterns. Finally, k-nearest neighbors scoring yields both window-level and point-level anomaly measures. The approach targets clearer separation at the normal boundary and handles datasets mixing continuous and discrete features, with tests on bearing fault, degradation, and public time-series benchmarks.

Core claim

The central claim is that constructing pseudo-anomalous windows near the normal boundary using a reconstruction model and per-feature target-error control, followed by contrastive learning between normal and pseudo-anomalous windows and KNN-based scoring, improves the separability of the normal boundary and enables effective anomaly detection in mixed-variable time-series scenarios without requiring real anomaly examples or known fault categories.

What carries the argument

The pseudo-anomaly generation step that places synthetic anomalies in boundary neighborhoods through reconstruction and per-feature error control, which then supplies the contrastive pairs for learning anomaly-sensitive representations.

If this is right

  • The method produces relatively stable anomaly responses across bearing fault detection and degradation process datasets.
  • It remains sensitive to the evolution of degradation in the time-series signals.
  • It extends to public time-series anomaly detection benchmarks and real high-speed train bearing data with a degree of broader applicability.
  • It jointly processes continuous and discrete features within the same mixed-variable time series.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The boundary-neighborhood construction of pseudo-anomalies might reduce reliance on domain-specific fault knowledge in other industrial monitoring settings.
  • If the contrastive stage proves robust, similar pseudo-anomaly guidance could be tested on non-bearing time series where labeled anomalies remain scarce.
  • The per-feature error control during pseudo-anomaly creation may offer a route to adapt the method when feature scales or types differ sharply across datasets.

Load-bearing premise

That pseudo-anomalous windows created near the normal boundary serve as effective proxies for real anomalies so that contrastive learning produces representations that generalize to actual anomalies.

What would settle it

Running the trained model on a labeled bearing dataset with known real anomalies and finding no gain in detection precision or recall compared with a standard reconstruction baseline that does not use pseudo-anomaly contrastive learning.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.04073 by Lin Wang, Minghang Zhao, Ran Li, Rui Wang, Shisheng Zhong, Xiancheng Wang, Zhibo Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic comparison between conventional fault injection and the pseudo-anomaly generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The proposed two-stage framework. The upper part shows reconstruction-driven pseudo-anomalous [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Stage 1 pipeline. The left part shows data normalization in the continuous subspace and the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Stage 2 pipeline. The left side shows normal–pseudo-anomalous contrastive training, where normal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of the CWRU dataset. A shows the experimental device, B shows the long sequence [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Fault-detection results on the CWRU dataset. A shows the window-energy heatmap together [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of the HTBF dataset. A shows the experimental setup, B shows the long sequence [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Fault-detection results on the HTBF dataset. A shows the window-energy heatmap and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Illustration of the PHM2009 dataset. A shows the experimental setup, B shows the long sequence [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Fault-detection results on the PHM2009 dataset. A shows the window-energy heatmap and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Illustration of the REALBOX field-measurement data. A shows the real data-acquisition scenario, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Fault-detection results on the REALBOX field-measurement data. A shows the window-energy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Illustration of the XJTU-SY degradation data. A shows the experimental setup, B shows the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing1-1. The proposed method maintains low [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing1-3. The anomaly-score curve and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing2-2. The proposed method shows continuous [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing2-5. The figure shows anomaly scores, metric [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing3-3. The model shows progressively stronger [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Degradation-detection results for XJTU-SY Bearing3-5. The proposed method yields stable high [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Illustration of the IMS bearing degradation data. The figure shows the experimental setup, long [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Degradation-detection results on the IMS bearing data. The proposed method captures part of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Summary of the core metrics across multiple datasets. A–E compare the results of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Ablation on pseudo-anomaly injection strategies. The upper row corresponds to HTBF and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Ablation on the shared encoder design and the coverage relation with CARLA. Panels A and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p053_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Ablation on the Stage 2 contrastive loss and anomaly score. Panels A and B show the anomaly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p055_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Ablation results for the RL step-size controller. The left column reports the relative gains of RL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p058_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Analysis of the empirical basis of the Stage 1 target reconstruction-error interval. The figure com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p061_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Comparison of score curves for CARLA-style pseudo-anomaly injection and the original CARLA [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p063_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Hyperparameter sensitivity analysis of the target-error quantile interval. Each subplot shows the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p066_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Anomaly-detection results on simulated TSAD data. The top row shows the input time series and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p070_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Example anomaly scores on public TSAD data I. The figure shows the anomaly-score curves and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p072_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Example anomaly scores on public TSAD data II. The figure further shows the model’s detection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p073_32.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

This paper proposes a two-stage pseudo anomaly-guided anomaly detection method (\textbf{T}wo-stage \textbf{P}seudo \textbf{A}nomaly-guided \textbf{A}nomaly \textbf{D}etection, \textbf{TPA-AD}) for axle-box bearing time-series anomaly detection (time series anomaly detection, TSAD) under the setting where only normal samples are available for training. The method first generates pseudo-anomalous windows near the normal boundary using a reconstruction model and per-feature target-error control. It then learns anomaly-sensitive representations through contrastive learning between normal and pseudo-anomalous windows, and finally produces window-level and point-level anomaly scores using k-nearest neighbors (KNN). Compared with existing methods that rely on known fault categories, real anomaly priors, or random anomaly injection, TPA-AD improves the separability of the normal boundary by constructing pseudo-anomalies in boundary neighborhoods and can jointly handle continuous and discrete features in mixed-variable scenarios. The main experiments are conducted on bearing fault detection datasets and degradation-process datasets, with an additional exploratory extension on $13$ public TSAD datasets. The results show that the proposed method yields relatively stable anomaly responses, is sensitive to degradation evolution, and demonstrates a certain degree of broader applicability on public TSAD benchmarks and real high-speed-train-related bearing data.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes TPA-AD, a two-stage method for unsupervised time-series anomaly detection on axle-box bearing data (only normal samples available). Stage 1 generates pseudo-anomalous windows near the normal boundary via a reconstruction model with per-feature target-error control. Stage 2 applies contrastive learning on normal vs. pseudo-anomalous windows to obtain anomaly-sensitive representations, followed by KNN-based window- and point-level scoring. The method claims improved normal-boundary separability, ability to handle mixed continuous/discrete features, stable anomaly responses, sensitivity to degradation evolution, and a degree of applicability on 13 public TSAD benchmarks plus real high-speed-train bearing data.

Significance. If the pseudo-anomalies generated via reconstruction error and per-feature thresholds prove to be representative proxies for real bearing faults, the approach could advance unsupervised TSAD by avoiding reliance on known fault categories, real anomaly priors, or random injection. The extension to degradation-process datasets and 13 public benchmarks is a positive step toward assessing broader utility in industrial mixed-variable settings.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of performance gains, stable responses, and broader applicability is stated without any quantitative results, error bars, baseline comparisons, or statistical tests; this prevents assessment of the central claim that pseudo-anomaly construction improves separability.
  2. [Method] Method (pseudo-anomaly generation stage): the construction relies on reconstruction error distribution plus independent per-feature target-error thresholds, but provides no analysis showing that the resulting windows capture correlated temporal structure or specific fault signatures (e.g., periodic impulses or degradation trends) present in real axle-box bearing data; this assumption is load-bearing for the subsequent contrastive-learning stage producing generalizable representations.
minor comments (1)
  1. Notation for the reconstruction model, target-error control, and contrastive loss could be made more explicit with equations or pseudocode to improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and note planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of performance gains, stable responses, and broader applicability is stated without any quantitative results, error bars, baseline comparisons, or statistical tests; this prevents assessment of the central claim that pseudo-anomaly construction improves separability.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from quantitative support to allow readers to assess the claims. In the revised manuscript we will add concise quantitative highlights, including key performance metrics and baseline comparisons from the bearing and degradation experiments. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method (pseudo-anomaly generation stage): the construction relies on reconstruction error distribution plus independent per-feature target-error thresholds, but provides no analysis showing that the resulting windows capture correlated temporal structure or specific fault signatures (e.g., periodic impulses or degradation trends) present in real axle-box bearing data; this assumption is load-bearing for the subsequent contrastive-learning stage producing generalizable representations.

    Authors: The pseudo-anomaly stage is intentionally designed to produce boundary-near samples via per-feature error control. The manuscript validates the overall approach through downstream contrastive learning and detection results on real axle-box data, including degradation sensitivity. We acknowledge the absence of a dedicated analysis of temporal structure or fault signatures in the generated windows and will add visualizations and comparisons of pseudo-anomaly characteristics versus real fault patterns in the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: TPA-AD is a constructive two-stage pipeline without self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper describes a method that generates pseudo-anomalies using a reconstruction model plus per-feature target-error control, then applies contrastive learning between normal and pseudo-anomalous windows, and finally computes KNN-based scores. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations as load-bearing premises, or ansatzes imported from prior author work appear in the provided text. The central claim rests on the empirical behavior of this explicit construction on external datasets rather than any derivation that reduces outputs to inputs by definition. This is the standard case of a non-circular algorithmic proposal.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard machine-learning assumptions about the utility of synthetic anomalies and the availability of only normal data; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Normal samples alone are sufficient to define a boundary that can be meaningfully perturbed to create useful pseudo-anomalies.
    Invoked in the first stage of pseudo-anomaly generation described in the abstract.
  • domain assumption Contrastive learning between normal and pseudo-anomalous windows produces representations that transfer to real anomalies.
    Central to the second stage and final scoring step.

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