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Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying robust and reliable machine-learning systems in open-world settings. Despite steady advances in OOD detectors, their interplay with modern training pipelines that maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Gerhard Krumpl , Henning Avenhaus , Horst Possegger

Deep neural networks (DNN) have outstanding performance in various applications. Despite numerous efforts of the research community, out-of-distribution (OOD) samples remain a significant limitation of DNN classifiers. The ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Bartlomiej Olber , Krystian Radlak , Adam Popowicz , Michal Szczepankiewicz , Krystian Chachuła

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models in real-world applications. Existing methods typically focus on feature representations or output-space analysis, often assuming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mostafa ElAraby , Sabyasachi Sahoo , Yann Pequignot , Paul Novello , Liam Paull

When presented with Out-of-Distribution (OOD) examples, deep neural networks yield confident, incorrect predictions. Detecting OOD examples is challenging, and the potential risks are high. In this paper, we propose to detect OOD examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Chandramouli Shama Sastry , Sageev Oore

We characterized the generalization capabilities of DNN-based encoding models when predicting neuronal responses from the visual cortex. We collected \textit{MacaqueITBench}, a large-scale dataset of neural population responses from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Spandan Madan , Will Xiao , Mingran Cao , Hanspeter Pfister , Margaret Livingstone , Gabriel Kreiman

Neural networks (NNs) are widely used for object classification in autonomous driving. However, NNs can fail on input data not well represented by the training dataset, known as out-of-distribution (OOD) data. A mechanism to detect OOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Julia Nitsch , Masha Itkina , Ransalu Senanayake , Juan Nieto , Max Schmidt , Roland Siegwart , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Cesar Cadena

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in various tasks supported by their generalization capabilities. However, the current analysis of GNN generalization relies on the assumption that training and testing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

Out of distribution (OOD) detection is a crucial part of making machine learning systems robust. The ImageNet-O dataset is an important tool in testing the robustness of ImageNet trained deep neural networks that are widely used across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anugya Srivastava , Shriya Jain , Mugdha Thigle

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to produce incorrect predictions with very high confidence on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. This limitation is one of the key challenges in the adoption of deep learning models in high-assurance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ramneet Kaur , Susmit Jha , Anirban Roy , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is one of the central problems in modern machine learning. Recently, there is a surge of attempts to propose algorithms that mainly build upon the idea of extracting invariant features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haotian Ye , Chuanlong Xie , Tianle Cai , Ruichen Li , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have garnered significant attention due to their ability to represent graph data. Among various GNN variants, graph attention network (GAT) stands out since it is able to dynamically learn the importance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Tiqiao Wei , Ye Yuan

Thanks to graph neural networks (GNNs), semi-supervised node classification has shown the state-of-the-art performance in graph data. However, GNNs have not considered different types of uncertainties associated with class probabilities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Xujiang Zhao , Feng Chen , Shu Hu , Jin-Hee Cho

With the progressive advancements in deep graph learning, out-of-distribution (OOD) detection for graph data has emerged as a critical challenge. While the efficacy of auxiliary datasets in enhancing OOD detection has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Junwei He , Qianqian Xu , Yangbangyan Jiang , Zitai Wang , Yuchen Sun , Qingming Huang

Graph convolution networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized in various graph tasks to mine knowledge from spatial data. Our study marks the pioneering attempt to quantitatively investigate the GCN robustness over omnipresent heterophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenyang Qiu , Guoshun Nan , Tianyu Xiong , Wendi Deng , Di Wang , Zhiyang Teng , Lijuan Sun , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Neural networks often make predictions relying on the spurious correlations from the datasets rather than the intrinsic properties of the task of interest, facing sharp degradation on out-of-distribution (OOD) test data. Existing de-bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xinzhe Han , Shuhui Wang , Chi Su , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Given the critical role of graphs in real-world applications and their high-security requirements, improving the ability of graph neural networks (GNNs) to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) data is an urgent research problem. The recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shenzhi Yang , Bin Liang , An Liu , Lin Gui , Xingkai Yao , Xiaofang Zhang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is vital to safety-critical machine learning applications and has thus been extensively studied, with a plethora of methods developed in the literature. However, the field currently lacks a unified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jingkang Yang , Pengyun Wang , Dejian Zou , Zitang Zhou , Kunyuan Ding , Wenxuan Peng , Haoqi Wang , Guangyao Chen , Bo Li , Yiyou Sun , Xuefeng Du , Kaiyang Zhou , Wayne Zhang , Dan Hendrycks , Yixuan Li , Ziwei Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) model nonlinear representations in graph data with applications in distributed agent coordination, control, and planning among others. Current GNN architectures assume ideal scenarios and ignore link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

This work provides the first theoretical study on the ability of graph Message Passing Neural Networks (gMPNNs) -- such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) -- to perform inductive out-of-distribution (OOD) link prediction tasks, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yangze Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok , Bruno Ribeiro

We study out-of-distribution (OOD) prediction behavior of neural networks when they classify images from unseen classes or corrupted images. To probe the OOD behavior, we introduce a new measure, nearest category generalization (NCG), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yao-Yuan Yang , Cyrus Rashtchian , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Kamalika Chaudhuri