Summary of Dissecting Out-of-distribution Detection and Open-set Recognition: a Critical Analysis Of Methods and Benchmarks, by Hongjun Wang et al.
Dissecting Out-of-Distribution Detection and Open-Set Recognition: A Critical Analysis of Methods and Benchmarks
by Hongjun Wang, Sagar Vaze, Kai Han
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper provides a comprehensive view of two key subfields in machine learning: out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and open-set recognition (OSR). The authors aim to provide rigorous empirical analysis of different methods across settings, offering actionable takeaways for practitioners and researchers. Specifically, the study cross-evaluates state-of-the-art methods in OOD detection and OSR, identifying a strong correlation between their performances. A new large-scale benchmark setting is proposed, which better disentangles the problems tackled by OOD detection and OSR. The authors also examine the performance of state-of-the-art OOD detection and OSR methods on this new benchmark. Surprisingly, they find that the best-performing method (Outlier Exposure) struggles at scale, while scoring rules sensitive to deep feature magnitude consistently show promise. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how machine learning models work in real-world situations by comparing different ways of detecting when a model is unsure about something it’s never seen before. The authors test many different approaches and find that some do better than others in certain situations. They also create a new way to test these methods, which helps us see which ones are the most reliable. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
