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Recent work introduced the epinet as a new approach to uncertainty modeling in deep learning. An epinet is a small neural network added to traditional neural networks, which, together, can produce predictive distributions. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Xiuyuan Lu , Ian Osband , Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Sven Gowal , Vikranth Dwaracherla , Zheng Wen , Benjamin Van Roy

Large-scale pretrained models are widely leveraged as foundations for learning new specialized tasks via fine-tuning, with the goal of maintaining the general performance of the model while allowing it to gain new skills. A valuable goal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jaedong Hwang , Brian Cheung , Zhang-Wei Hong , Akhilan Boopathy , Pulkit Agrawal , Ila Fiete

We often see undesirable tradeoffs in robust machine learning where out-of-distribution (OOD) accuracy is at odds with in-distribution (ID) accuracy: a robust classifier obtained via specialized techniques such as removing spurious features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ananya Kumar , Tengyu Ma , Percy Liang , Aditi Raghunathan

Although pretrained Transformers such as BERT achieve high accuracy on in-distribution examples, do they generalize to new distributions? We systematically measure out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization for seven NLP datasets by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Dan Hendrycks , Xiaoyuan Liu , Eric Wallace , Adam Dziedzic , Rishabh Krishnan , Dawn Song

Recent studies have shown that higher accuracy on ImageNet usually leads to better robustness against different corruptions. Therefore, in this paper, instead of following the traditional research paradigm that investigates new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Yao Zhu , Shuhui Wang , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

Deep learning models are challenged by the distribution shift between the training data and test data. Recently, the large models pre-trained on diverse data have demonstrated unprecedented robustness to various distribution shifts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yao Xiao , Ziyi Tang , Pengxu Wei , Cong Liu , Liang Lin

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an important task in machine learning systems for ensuring their reliability and safety. Deep probabilistic generative models facilitate OOD detection by estimating the likelihood of a data sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jaemoo Choi , Changyeon Yoon , Jeongwoo Bae , Myungjoo Kang

The ability to detect Out-of-Distribution (OOD) data is important in safety-critical applications of deep learning. The aim is to separate In-Distribution (ID) data drawn from the training distribution from OOD data using a measure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Guoxuan Xia , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

We introduce four new real-world distribution shift datasets consisting of changes in image style, image blurriness, geographic location, camera operation, and more. With our new datasets, we take stock of previously proposed methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Dan Hendrycks , Steven Basart , Norman Mu , Saurav Kadavath , Frank Wang , Evan Dorundo , Rahul Desai , Tyler Zhu , Samyak Parajuli , Mike Guo , Dawn Song , Jacob Steinhardt , Justin Gilmer

Pre-training image representations from the raw text about images enables zero-shot vision transfer to downstream tasks. Through pre-training on millions of samples collected from the internet, multimodal foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chenguang Wang , Ruoxi Jia , Xin Liu , Dawn Song

As the use of machine learning continues to expand, the importance of ensuring its safety cannot be overstated. A key concern in this regard is the ability to identify whether a given sample is from the training distribution, or is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Nicola Franco , Daniel Korth , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz , Karsten Roscher , Stephan Guennemann

The proper handling of out-of-distribution (OOD) samples in deep classifiers is a critical concern for ensuring the suitability of deep neural networks in safety-critical systems. Existing approaches developed for robust OOD detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Nasrin Alipour , Seyyed Ali SeyyedSalehi

Robustness to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is an important goal in building reliable machine learning systems. Especially in autonomous systems, wrong predictions for OOD inputs can cause safety critical situations. As a first step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Andreas Sedlmeier , Thomas Gabor , Thomy Phan , Lenz Belzner , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Deep learning based methods for image reconstruction are state-of-the-art for a variety of imaging tasks. However, neural networks often perform worse if the training data differs significantly from the data they are applied to. For…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Kang Lin , Reinhard Heckel

Recently, we have witnessed generative retrieval increasingly gaining attention in the information retrieval (IR) field, which retrieves documents by directly generating their identifiers. So far, much effort has been devoted to developing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng

Robustness verification of neural networks, referring to formally proving that neural networks satisfy robustness properties, is of crucial importance in safety-critical applications, where model failures can result in loss of human life or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Minh Le , Phuong Cao

One of the challenges for neural networks in real-life applications is the overconfident errors these models make when the data is not from the original training distribution. Addressing this issue is known as Out-of-Distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sina Sharifi , Taha Entesari , Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel , Mahyar Fazlyab

Deep learning models can perform well when evaluated on images from the same distribution as the training set. However, applying small perturbations in the forms of noise, artifacts, occlusions, blurring, etc. to a model's input image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zahra Golpayegani , Patrick St-Amant , Nizar Bouguila

This paper presents a novel evaluation framework for Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection that aims to assess the performance of machine learning models in more realistic settings. We observed that the real-world requirements for testing OOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , Mohammad Sabokrou

Efficient and effective Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is essential for the safe deployment of AI systems. Existing feature space methods, while effective, often incur significant computational overhead due to their reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Litian Liu , Yao Qin