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Detecting Time Series Anomalies Like an Expert: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework with Specialized Analyzers

Hyeongwon Kang, Jeongseob Kim, Jinwoo Park, Pilsung Kang

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Published 2026-05-07 · First seen 2026-05-09

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Recent studies have explored large language models for time-series anomaly detection, yet existing approaches often rely on a single general-purpose model to directly infer anomaly indices or intervals, limiting controllability, interpretability, and reliability for complex anomaly patterns. We propose SAGE (Specialized Analyzer Group for Expert-like Detection), a multi-agent framework for structured anomaly diagnosis in univariate time series. It decomposes anomaly analysis into four specialized Analyzers for point, structural, seasonal, and pattern anomalies. Each Analyzer applies family-specific numerical tools and diagnostic visualizations to generate evidence, while an evidence-grounded Detector consolidates the evidence into confidence-scored anomaly records with intervals and candidate types. A Supervisor then converts these structured records into analyst-facing diagnostic reports. SAGE further constructs synthetic in-context examples from normal-reference training segments, without using real anomalous segments or anomaly-type labels as in-context examples. Across three benchmarks, SAGE achieves the best average performance among strong ML/DL and language-model-based baselines. Ablation studies and human evaluation further show that the proposed framework improves detection reliability and the practical usefulness of diagnostic outputs.

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@article{kang2026detecting,
  title = {Detecting Time Series Anomalies Like an Expert: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework with Specialized Analyzers},
  author = {Hyeongwon Kang and Jeongseob Kim and Jinwoo Park and Pilsung Kang},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Recent studies have explored large language models for time-series anomaly detection, yet existing approaches often rely on a single general-purpose model to directly infer anomaly indices or intervals, limiting controllability, interpretability, and reliability for complex anomaly patterns. We propose SAGE (Specialized Analyzer Group for Expert-like Detection), a multi-agent framework for structured anomaly diagnosis in univariate time series. It decomposes anomaly analysis into four specialize},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05725},
  keywords = {cs.AI},
  eprint = {2605.05725},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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