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SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation

Computation and Language 2024-11-06 v4 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the safe deployment of neural networks. Existing CLIP-based approaches perform OOD detection by devising novel scoring functions or sophisticated fine-tuning methods. In this work, we propose SeTAR, a novel, training-free OOD detection method that leverages selective low-rank approximation of weight matrices in vision-language and vision-only models. SeTAR enhances OOD detection via post-hoc modification of the model's weight matrices using a simple greedy search algorithm. Based on SeTAR, we further propose SeTAR+FT, a fine-tuning extension optimizing model performance for OOD detection tasks. Extensive evaluations on ImageNet1K and Pascal-VOC benchmarks show SeTAR's superior performance, reducing the relatively false positive rate by up to 18.95% and 36.80% compared to zero-shot and fine-tuning baselines. Ablation studies further validate SeTAR's effectiveness, robustness, and generalizability across different model backbones. Our work offers a scalable, efficient solution for OOD detection, setting a new state-of-the-art in this area.

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@article{arxiv.2406.12629,
  title  = {SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation},
  author = {Yixia Li and Boya Xiong and Guanhua Chen and Yun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12629},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted by NeurIPS 2024. Project page is live at https://SeTAR-OOD.github.io. Code are available at https://github.com/X1AOX1A/SeTAR

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