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Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical for reliable deployment of vision models. Mahalanobis-based detectors remain strong baselines, yet their performance varies widely across modern pretrained representations, and it is unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Denis Janiak , Jakub Binkowski , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

\noindent Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for the safe deployment of machine learning models. Extensive work has focused on devising various scoring functions for detecting OOD samples, while only a few studies focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yifan Ding , Xixi Liu , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Implementing neural networks for clinical use in medical applications necessitates the ability for the network to detect when input data differs significantly from the training data, with the aim of preventing unreliable predictions. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Harry Anthony , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

Long-tailed out-of-distribution (LT-OOD) detection is often addressed with specialized training, including auxiliary out-of-distribution (OOD) data, abstention heads, contrastive objectives, energy losses, or gradient-conflict control. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ningkang Peng , Xuanming Chen , Yanhui Gu

Mahalanobis distance (MD) is a simple and popular post-processing method for detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs in neural networks. We analyze its failure modes for near-OOD detection and propose a simple fix called relative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Jie Ren , Stanislav Fort , Jeremiah Liu , Abhijit Guha Roy , Shreyas Padhy , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

Dialect classification is used in a variety of applications, such as machine translation and speech recognition, to improve the overall performance of the system. In a real-world scenario, a deployed dialect classification model can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Sourya Dipta Das , Yash Vadi , Abhishek Unnam , Kuldeep Yadav

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task for deploying machine learning models in the open world. Distance-based methods have demonstrated promise, where testing samples are detected as OOD if they are relatively far away from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yiyou Sun , Yifei Ming , Xiaojin Zhu , Yixuan Li

The ability to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is fundamental to safe deployment of machine learning systems. Yet, current methods often rely on feature representations that are optimised solely for classification accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Rahul D Ray

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical component for ensuring the reliability of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications. In this work, we present a key empirical observation: for in-distribution (ID) samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Donghwan Kim , Hyunsoo Yoon

We demonstrate that L2 normalization over feature space can produce capable performance for Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection for some models and datasets. Although it does not demonstrate outright state-of-the-art performance, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jarrod Haas , William Yolland , Bernhard Rabus

Bayesian nonparametric methods are naturally suited to the problem of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. However, these techniques have largely been eschewed in favor of simpler methods based on distances between pre-trained or learned…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Randolph W. Linderman , Noah Cowan , Yiran Chen , Scott W. Linderman

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task for safe deployment of learning systems in the open world setting. In this work, we investigate the use of feature density estimation via normalizing flows for OOD detection and present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evan D. Cook , Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Steven L. Waslander

Clinically deployed segmentation models are known to fail on data outside of their training distribution. As these models perform well on most cases, it is imperative to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) images at inference to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 McKell Woodland , Nihil Patel , Mais Al Taie , Joshua P. Yung , Tucker J. Netherton , Ankit B. Patel , Kristy K. Brock

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task for ensuring the reliability and safety of deep neural networks in real-world scenarios. Different from most previous OOD detection methods that focus on designing OOD scores or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Zhu , YueFeng Chen , Chuanlong Xie , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Xiang Tian , bolun zheng , Yaowu Chen

Convolutional neural networks applied for real-world classification tasks need to recognize inputs that are far or out-of-distribution (OoD) with respect to the known or training data. To achieve this, many methods estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Kamil Szyc , Tomasz Walkowiak , Henryk Maciejewski

While deep learning models have seen widespread success in controlled environments, there are still barriers to their adoption in open-world settings. One critical task for safe deployment is the detection of anomalous or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Connor Mclaughlin , Jason Matterer , Michael Yee

The Mahalanobis distance-based confidence score, a recently proposed anomaly detection method for pre-trained neural classifiers, achieves state-of-the-art performance on both out-of-distribution (OoD) and adversarial examples detection.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-01 Ryo Kamoi , Kei Kobayashi

Neural networks are notorious for being overconfident predictors, posing a significant challenge to their safe deployment in real-world applications. While feature normalization has garnered considerable attention within the deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Sudarshan Regmi , Bibek Panthi , Sakar Dotel , Prashnna K. Gyawali , Danail Stoyanov , Binod Bhattarai

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

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is critical for safe deployment; however, existing detectors often struggle to generalize across datasets of varying scales and model architectures, and some can incur high computational costs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Litian Liu , Yao Qin
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