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Multivariate Data Anomaly Detection Based on Graph Structure Learning

Haoxiang Wen¹, Zhaoyang Wang¹, Zhonglin Ye^1,*, Haixing Zhao¹, Maosong Sun²

1 School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Intelligent, Xining, 810008, China
2 Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

* Corresponding Author: Zhonglin Ye. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Machine Learning and Deep Learning-Based Pattern Recognition)

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2026, 146(1), 39 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2025.074410

Received 10 October 2025; Accepted 02 December 2025; Issue published 29 January 2026

Abstract

Multivariate anomaly detection plays a critical role in maintaining the stable operation of information systems. However, in existing research, multivariate data are often influenced by various factors during the data collection process, resulting in temporal misalignment or displacement. Due to these factors, the node representations carry substantial noise, which reduces the adaptability of the multivariate coupled network structure and subsequently degrades anomaly detection performance. Accordingly, this study proposes a novel multivariate anomaly detection model grounded in graph structure learning. Firstly, a recommendation strategy is employed to identify strongly coupled variable pairs, which are then used to construct a recommendation-driven multivariate coupling network. Secondly, a multi-channel graph encoding layer is used to dynamically optimize the structural properties of the multivariate coupling network, while a multi-head attention mechanism enhances the spatial characteristics of the multivariate data. Finally, unsupervised anomaly detection is conducted using a dynamic threshold selection algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that effectively integrating the structural and spatial features of multivariate data significantly mitigates anomalies caused by temporal dependency misalignment.

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