Summary of Can Your Generative Model Detect Out-of-distribution Covariate Shift?, by Christiaan Viviers and Amaan Valiuddin and Francisco Caetano and Lemar Abdi and Lena Filatova and Peter De with and Fons Van Der Sommen
Can Your Generative Model Detect Out-of-Distribution Covariate Shift?
by Christiaan Viviers, Amaan Valiuddin, Francisco Caetano, Lemar Abdi, Lena Filatova, Peter de With, Fons van der Sommen
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 presents a novel approach for detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) sensory data and covariate distribution shift in high-frequency image components using conditional Normalizing Flows (cNFs). Existing literature focuses on semantic shift, but this work highlights the importance of detecting domain-specific covariate shift. Generative models can identify samples that deviate significantly from the learned distribution, regardless of the downstream task. The authors propose a new method, CovariateFlow, which accurately detects OOD covariate shift in datasets such as CIFAR10 vs. CIFAR10-C and ImageNet200 vs. ImageNet200-C. This work contributes to enhancing the fidelity of imaging systems and aiding machine learning models in detecting OOD data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how to tell when new test images are very different from the ones we trained our computer model on. Right now, most research focuses on how different the images look, but this paper shows that it’s also important to consider the underlying patterns and statistics in the images. The authors use special algorithms called generative models to identify images that don’t fit with what they’ve learned so far. They propose a new way of doing this called CovariateFlow, which works well on real-world image datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
