AD-AGENT: A Multi-agent Framework for End-to-end Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential in areas such as fraud detection, network monitoring, and scientific research. However, the diversity of data modalities and the increasing number of specialized AD libraries pose challenges for non-expert users who lack in-depth library-specific knowledge and advanced programming skills. To tackle this, we present AD-AGENT, an LLM-driven multi-agent framework that turns natural-language instructions into fully executable AD pipelines. AD-AGENT coordinates specialized agents for intent parsing, data preparation, library and model selection, documentation mining, and iterative code generation and debugging. Using a shared short-term workspace and a long-term cache, the agents integrate popular AD libraries like PyOD, PyGOD, and TSLib into a unified workflow. Experiments demonstrate that AD-AGENT produces reliable scripts and recommends competitive models across libraries. The system is open-sourced to support further research and practical applications in AD.

@article{yang2025_2505.12594,
  title={ AD-AGENT: A Multi-agent Framework for End-to-end Anomaly Detection },
  author={ Tiankai Yang and Junjun Liu and Wingchun Siu and Jiahang Wang and Zhuangzhuang Qian and Chanjuan Song and Cheng Cheng and Xiyang Hu and Yue Zhao },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12594},
  year={ 2025 }
}