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Evaluation is no longer a final checkpoint in the machine learning lifecycle. As AI systems evolve from static models to compound, tool-using agents, evaluation becomes a core control function. The question is no longer "How good is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ali El Filali , Inès Bedar

Several data augmentation methods deploy unlabeled-in-distribution (UID) data to bridge the gap between the training and inference of neural networks. However, these methods have clear limitations in terms of availability of UID data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Saehyung Lee , Changhwa Park , Hyungyu Lee , Jihun Yi , Jonghyun Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for reliable deployment of deep learning systems, yet the majority of existing methods are evaluated on small, visually homogeneous benchmarks. In this work, we study six OOD detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Devesh Shah

Recent advances on large-scale pre-training have shown great potentials of leveraging a large set of Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) for improving Out-of-Distribution (OoD) generalization, for which the goal is to perform well on possible unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Qishi Dong , Awais Muhammad , Fengwei Zhou , Chuanlong Xie , Tianyang Hu , Yongxin Yang , Sung-Ho Bae , Zhenguo Li

Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a capability natural to humans yet challenging for machines to reproduce. This is because most learning algorithms strongly rely on the i.i.d.~assumption on source/target data, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kaiyang Zhou , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Tao Xiang , Chen Change Loy

Detecting Out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs have been a critical issue for neural networks in the open world. However, the unstable behavior of OOD detection along the optimization trajectory during training has not been explored clearly. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Zhen Cheng , Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Deep models often fail to generalize well in test domains when the data distribution differs from that in the training domain. Among numerous approaches to address this Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization problem, there has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qixun Wang , Yifei Wang , Hong Zhu , Yisen Wang

While pretrained language models achieve excellent performance on natural language understanding benchmarks, they tend to rely on spurious correlations and generalize poorly to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Recent work has explored using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Nitish Joshi , He He

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify OOD inputs from unknown classes, which is important for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in the open world. Various scoring functions are proposed to distinguish it from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Boxuan Zhang , Jianing Zhu , Zengmao Wang , Tongliang Liu , Bo Du , Bo Han

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for determining when a supervised model encounters inputs that differ meaningfully from its training distribution. While widely studied in classification, OOD detection for regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Min Lu , Hemant Ishwaran

Recent work on object-centric world models aim to factorize representations in terms of objects in a completely unsupervised or self-supervised manner. Such world models are hypothesized to be a key component to address the generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kandan Ramakrishnan , R. James Cotton , Xaq Pitkow , Andreas S. Tolias

Time series frequently manifest distribution shifts, diverse latent features, and non-stationary learning dynamics, particularly in open and evolving environments. These characteristics pose significant challenges for out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xin Wu , Fei Teng , Xingwang Li , Ji Zhang , Tianrui Li , Qiang Duan

A large language model's (LLM's) out-of-distribution (OOD) generalisation ability is crucial to its deployment. Previous work assessing LLMs' generalisation performance, however, typically focuses on a single out-of-distribution dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Matteo Boglioni , Andrea Sgobbi , Gabriel Tavernini , Francesco Rita , Marius Mosbach , Tiago Pimentel

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, which maps high-dimensional data into a scalar OOD score, is critical for the reliable deployment of machine learning models. A key challenge in recent research is how to effectively leverage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Claus Hofmann , Christian Huber , Bernhard Lehner , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter , Werner Zellinger

Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on in-distribution (ID) data but often encounter out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs during deployment -- posing serious risks in safety-critical domains. Recent works have focused on designing scoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daisuke Yamada , Harit Vishwakarma , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for model trustworthiness which aims to sensitively identify semantic OOD samples and robustly generalize for covariate-shifted OOD samples. However, we discover that the superior OOD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Qingyang Zhang , Qiuxuan Feng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yatao Bian , Qinghua Hu , Changqing Zhang

In this work, we study out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in meta-reinforcement learning from an information-theoretic perspective. We begin by establishing OOD generalization bounds for meta-supervised learning under two distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xingtu Liu

Detecting and rejecting unknown out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is critical for deployed neural networks to void unreliable predictions. In real-world scenarios, however, the efficacy of existing OOD detection methods is often impeded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kai Liu , Zhihang Fu , Sheng Jin , Chao Chen , Ze Chen , Rongxin Jiang , Fan Zhou , Yaowu Chen , Jieping Ye

Estimating the generalization performance is practically challenging on out-of-distribution (OOD) data without ground-truth labels. While previous methods emphasize the connection between distribution difference and OOD accuracy, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Renchunzi Xie , Hongxin Wei , Lei Feng , Yuzhou Cao , Bo An

Generalization, the ability to perform well beyond the training context, is a hallmark of biological and artificial intelligence, yet anticipating unseen failures remains a central challenge. Conventional approaches often take a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chi-Ning Chou , Artem Kirsanov , Yao-Yuan Yang , SueYeon Chung