Summary of A View on Out-of-distribution Identification From a Statistical Testing Theory Perspective, by Alberto Caron et al.
A View on Out-of-Distribution Identification from a Statistical Testing Theory Perspective
by Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the crucial task of detecting Out-of-Distribution (OOD) samples during supervised and unsupervised learning. As ML models assume similar training and testing data distributions, this problem is essential in realistic scenarios where distribution shifts occur. The authors reframe the OOD issue using statistical testing principles and identify conditions for its identifiability. Building on this framework, they investigate convergence guarantees of an OOD test based on the Wasserstein distance and provide a simple empirical evaluation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research focuses on detecting when something is “out-of-the-ordinary” in machine learning models. In real-world scenarios, data might change or become different from what was expected. The authors want to develop ways to detect these changes and improve the reliability of machine learning models. They use mathematical techniques to understand how this works and provide a simple example to test their ideas. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Supervised * Unsupervised
