arXiv:2602.08868cs.LGcs.AI2026-02

让多模态大模型精准分析时序异常,提升判断力与解释性。

AnomSeer: Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs to Reason for Time-Series Anomaly Detection

  • 构建细粒度推理链,结合统计与频域分析提升推理精度。
  • 在点异常和频率异常场景下,分类与定位准确率超越GPT-4o。
  • 生成可验证的推理过程,适合需要可解释性的工业场景。

多模态大语言模型(MLLM)在时序异常检测(TSAD)中展现潜力,但普遍依赖粗略的时间序列启发式方法,难以进行多维、细致的推理,而这正是理解复杂时序数据的关键。本文提出AnomSeer,通过强化模型将推理建立在时序数据的精确结构特征之上,统一实现异常分类、定位与解释。核心是生成专家级思维链,基于经典分析方法(如统计量、频域变换)提供可验证的细粒度推理。在此基础上,提出一种新型时序锚定策略优化(TimerPO),在标准强化学习外引入两个新组件:基于最优传输的时序锚定优势,以及正交投影以确保辅助细粒度信号不干扰主任务目标。在多种异常场景下,使用Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B-Instruct的AnomSeer,在分类与定位准确率上优于更大规模的商用模型(如GPT-4o),尤其在点异常与频率驱动异常上表现突出。同时,模型生成的时序推理轨迹具有合理性,支持其结论。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is an emerging area, yet a persistent challenge remains: MLLMs rely on coarse time-series heuristics but struggle with multi-dimensional, detailed reasoning, which is vital for understanding complex time-series data. We present AnomSeer to address this by reinforcing the model to ground its reasoning in precise, structural details of time series, unifying anomaly classification, localization, and explanation. At its core, an expert chain-of-thought trace is generated to provide a verifiable, fine-grained reasoning from classical analyses (e.g., statistical measures, frequency transforms). Building on this, we propose a novel time-series grounded policy optimization (TimerPO) that incorporates two additional components beyond standard reinforcement learning: a time-series grounded advantage based on optimal transport and an orthogonal projection to ensure this auxiliary granular signal does not interfere with the primary detection objective. Across diverse anomaly scenarios, AnomSeer, with Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B-Instruct, outperforms larger commercial baselines (e.g., GPT-4o) in classification and localization accuracy, particularly on point- and frequency-driven exceptions. Moreover, it produces plausible time-series reasoning traces that support its conclusions.

时序异常多模态大模型可解释性强化学习

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