Tensor-Based Multi-Scale Correlation Anomaly Detection for AIoT-Enabled Consumer Applications

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is an innovative paradigm expected to enable various consumer applications that is transforming our lives. While enjoying benefits and services from these applications, we also face serious security issues due to malicious cyber attacks on the massive growth of AIoT consumer devices. Accurate anomaly detection is one of the critical tasks for the trustworthy AIoT removing those obstacles. However, limited by the vector-based data pattern and ill-considered factors for anomalous samples analysis, existing methods suffer from the low detection performance. In this paper, a multi-scale correlation tensor convolutional Gaussian mixture network (named as MTCGM) is presented for ameliorating this actuality. Specifically, MTCGM suggests to construct the multi-scale correlation tensor by stacking one self-correlation matrix and multiple surrounding-correlations of different scales, which well characterizes the network status of AIoT. Subsequently, a 3D-convolutional autoencoder (3DCA) is designed for capturing inter-feature correlations, and followed with a Gaussian mixture probability (GMP) network for the observations likelihood estimation. Moreover, low-dimensional space features, relative Euclidean distance and tensor cosine similarity (TCS) are adopted in MTCGM as the multi-factor to boost the likelihood estimation. Extensive experiments on public benchmark datasets verify the validity of MTCGM, and demonstrate its superiority over the state-of-the-art baselines even in presence of contaminated training samples and input noise.