Precision and Recall for Time Series

Nesime Tatbul, Tae Jun Lee, Stan Zdonik, Mejbah Alam, Justin Gottschlich

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018)

Classical anomaly detection is principally concerned with point-based anomalies, those anomalies that occur at a single point in time. Yet, many real-world anomalies are range-based, meaning they occur over a period of time. Motivated by this observation, we present a new mathematical model to evaluate the accuracy of time series classification algorithms. Our model expands the well-known Precision and Recall metrics to measure ranges, while simultaneously enabling customization support for domain-specific preferences.