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Modern foundation models exhibit remarkable out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization, solving tasks far beyond the support of their training data. However, the theoretical principles underpinning this phenomenon remain elusive. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Jiawei Ge , Amanda Wang , Shange Tang , Chi Jin

Data augmentation is a dominant method for reducing model overfitting and improving generalization. Most existing data augmentation methods tend to find a compromise in augmenting the data, \textit{i.e.}, increasing the amplitude of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zehao Wang , Yiwen Guo , Qizhang Li , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

The core of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is to learn the in-distribution (ID) representation, which is distinguishable from OOD samples. Previous work applied recognition-based methods to learn the ID features, which tend to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shaozuo Yu , Zexin He , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Models trained on one set of domains often suffer performance drops on unseen domains, e.g., when wildlife monitoring models are deployed in new camera locations. In this work, we study principles for designing data augmentations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Irena Gao , Shiori Sagawa , Pang Wei Koh , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Percy Liang

Biological vision systems make adaptive use of context to recognize objects in new settings with novel contexts as well as occluded or blurry objects in familiar settings. In this paper, we investigate how vision models adaptively use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhuofan Ying , Peter Hase , Mohit Bansal

Systematic, compositional generalization beyond the training distribution remains a core challenge in machine learning -- and a critical bottleneck for the emergent reasoning abilities of modern language models. This work investigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Awni Altabaa , Siyu Chen , John Lafferty , Zhuoran Yang

The advent of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) has markedly advanced natural language processing, but their efficacy in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios remains a significant challenge. Computational argumentation (CA), modeling human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Andreas Waldis , Yufang Hou , Iryna Gurevych

Successful deep neural networks discover salient features of data. We show when and why they fail to learn out-of-distribution (OOD)-relevant representations from an in-distribution (ID) training window. This requires decoupling feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Leonel Aguilar , Jan Nagler , Christoph Hoelscher , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial when deploying deep neural networks in the real world to ensure the reliability and safety of their applications. One main challenge in OOD detection is that neural network models often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jinlun Ye , Zhuohao Sun , Yiqiao Qiu , Qiu Li , Zhijun Tan , Ruixuan Wang

Although prior work in computer vision has shown strong correlations between in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) accuracies, such relationships remain underexplored in audio-based models. In this study, we investigate how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Anaïs Baranger , Lucas Maison

Real-world machine learning applications often face simultaneous covariate and semantic shifts, challenging traditional domain generalization and out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods. We introduce Meta-learned Across Domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Haoliang Wang , Chen Zhao , Feng Chen

Distribution shifts between training and testing datasets significantly impair the model performance on graph learning. A commonly-taken causal view in graph invariant learning suggests that stable predictive features of graphs are causally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Bohan Wang , Yurui Chang , Wei Jin , Lu Lin

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a fundamental challenge in the deployment of machine learning models. From a security standpoint, this is particularly important because OOD test data can result in misleadingly confident yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Onat Gungor , Amanda Sofie Rios , Nilesh Ahuja , Tajana Rosing

Deep learning has been demonstrated with tremendous success in recent years. Despite so, its performance in practice often degenerates drastically when encountering out-of-distribution (OoD) data, i.e. training and test data are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Haoyue Bai

While Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has been well explored in computer vision, there have been relatively few prior attempts in OOD detection for NLP classification. In this paper we argue that these prior attempts do not fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mrinal Rawat , Ramya Hebbalaguppe , Lovekesh Vig

Data modification, either via additional training datasets, data augmentation, debiasing, and dataset filtering, has been proposed as an effective solution for generalizing to out-of-domain (OOD) inputs, in both natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tejas Gokhale , Swaroop Mishra , Man Luo , Bhavdeep Singh Sachdeva , Chitta Baral

Neural dialog models often lack robustness to anomalous user input and produce inappropriate responses which leads to frustrating user experience. Although there are a set of prior approaches to out-of-domain (OOD) utterance detection, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sungjin Lee , Igor Shalyminov

Recognizing out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is critical for machine learning systems deployed in the open world. The vast majority of OOD detection methods are driven by a single modality (e.g., either vision or language), leaving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yifei Ming , Ziyang Cai , Jiuxiang Gu , Yiyou Sun , Wei Li , Yixuan Li

A majority of recent work in AI assesses models' generalization capabilities through the lens of performance on out-of-distribution (OOD) datasets. Despite their practicality, such evaluations build upon a strong assumption: that OOD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Michal Štefánik , Timothee Mickus , Marek Kadlčík , Michal Spiegel , Josef Kuchař

Fine-tuned pre-trained language models can suffer from severe miscalibration for both in-distribution and out-of-distribution (OOD) data due to over-parameterization. To mitigate this issue, we propose a regularized fine-tuning method. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Lingkai Kong , Haoming Jiang , Yuchen Zhuang , Jie Lyu , Tuo Zhao , Chao Zhang