KAN-AD: Time Series Anomaly Detection with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
To address the high false-alarm rate in time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) for cloud services and web systems—caused by overfitting to minor fluctuations—this paper proposes a robust smoothing-based modeling framework. It replaces B-splines with truncated Fourier expansions to construct more stable local normal-pattern representations, designs a lightweight global-aware learning mechanism to enable global-local co-optimization, and builds upon the Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN) architecture with a parameter-efficient training strategy. The resulting model employs fewer than 1,000 parameters and achieves a 50% inference speedup over the baseline KAN. Evaluated on four standard benchmarks, it attains an average 15% improvement in detection accuracy (peaking at 27%) and demonstrates significantly enhanced robustness against noise and practical applicability.