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Detecting Out-of-Distribution (OOD) samples in real world visual applications like classification or object detection has become a necessary precondition in today's deployment of Deep Learning systems. Many techniques have been proposed, of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Abhishek Joshi , Sathish Chalasani , Kiran Nanjunda Iyer

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in the development of machine learning models across a wide range of fields, fueled by increased computational resources, large-scale datasets, and the rise of deep learning architectures.…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional recognition capabilities in traditional computer vision (CV) tasks. However, existing CV models often suffer a significant decrease in accuracy when confronted with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shuangchen Zhao , Changde Du , Hui Li , Huiguang He

With the goal of generalizing to out-of-distribution (OOD) data, recent domain generalization methods aim to learn "stable" feature representations whose effect on the output remains invariant across domains. Given the theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Divyat Mahajan , Shruti Tople , Amit Sharma

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in real-world scenarios, enabling the identification of unknown samples or objects. A prominent approach to enhance OOD detection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-05 Heng Gao , Jun Li

Generalizing to out-of-distribution (OOD) data or unseen domain, termed OOD generalization, still lacks appropriate theoretical guarantees. Canonical OOD bounds focus on different distance measurements between source and target domains but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yingtian Zou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Yingnan Liu , Jiashuo Liu , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Spurious correlations, unstable statistical shortcuts a model can exploit, are expected to degrade performance out-of-distribution (OOD). However, across many popular OOD generalization benchmarks, vanilla empirical risk minimization (ERM)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Olawale Salaudeen , Nicole Chiou , Shiny Weng , Sanmi Koyejo

As machine learning models continue to achieve impressive performance across different tasks, the importance of effective anomaly detection for such models has increased as well. It is common knowledge that even well-trained models lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ramneet Kaur , Xiayan Ji , Souradeep Dutta , Michele Caprio , Yahan Yang , Elena Bernardis , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Despite advances in image classification methods, detecting the samples not belonging to the training classes is still a challenging problem. There has been a burst of interest in this subject recently, which is called Open-Set Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is critical for machine learning models deployed in the real world. However, achieving this can be fundamentally challenging, as it requires the ability to learn invariant features across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haoyue Bai , Yifei Ming , Julian Katz-Samuels , Yixuan Li

Deep Neural Networks are known to be brittle to even minor distribution shifts compared to the training distribution. While one line of work has demonstrated that Simplicity Bias (SB) of DNNs - bias towards learning only the simplest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sravanti Addepalli , Anshul Nasery , R. Venkatesh Babu , Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain

Unsupervised learning has been extensively adopted to train deep neural networks (DNNs) for learning wireless resource allocation. Yet, the performance of DNNs is vulnerable to distribution shifts between training and test data, e.g.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Shengjie Liu , Chenyang Yang

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

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

Benchmarks for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization frequently show a strong positive correlation between in-distribution (ID) and OOD accuracy across models, termed "accuracy-on-the-line." This pattern is often taken to imply that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Olawale Salaudeen , Haoran Zhang , Kumail Alhamoud , Sara Beery , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Large code datasets have become increasingly accessible for pre-training source code models. However, for the fine-tuning phase, obtaining representative training data that fully covers the code distribution for specific downstream tasks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hossein Hajipour , Ning Yu , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu , Mario Fritz

Since out-of-distribution generalization is a generally ill-posed problem, various proxy targets (e.g., calibration, adversarial robustness, algorithmic corruptions, invariance across shifts) were studied across different research programs…

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is indispensable for learning models in the wild, where testing distribution typically unknown and different from the training. Recent methods derived from causality have shown great potential in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Mengyue Yang , Zhen Fang , Yonggang Zhang , Yali Du , Furui Liu , Jean-Francois Ton , Jianhong Wang , Jun Wang

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

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to discern outliers from the intended data distribution, which is crucial to maintaining high reliability and a good user experience. Most recent studies in OOD detection utilize the information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Hyunsoo Cho , Choonghyun Park , Jaewook Kang , Kang Min Yoo , Taeuk Kim , Sang-goo Lee