Preprint
Aug 2026
FirstDiff: One-Step Diffusion-Based Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series via Initial Noise Prediction
FirstDiff models the statistical distribution of predicted diffusion noise under normal behavior using validation data, enabling anomaly inference from a single denoising-network evaluation rather than completing the reverse diffusion trajectory.
ali boudaghi, Ali Nemati, Hadi Zare
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