Summary of Learning with Mixture Of Prototypes For Out-of-distribution Detection, by Haodong Lu et al.
Learning with Mixture of Prototypes for Out-of-Distribution Detection
by Haodong Lu, Dong Gong, Shuo Wang, Jason Xue, Lina Yao, Kristen Moore
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a novel approach to out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, a crucial task for safely deploying machine learning models in real-world scenarios. Existing methods rely on oversimplified data assumptions and lack robustness. The proposed PrototypicAl Learning with a Mixture of prototypes (PALM) addresses these limitations by modeling each class with multiple prototypes to capture sample diversities. PALM optimizes maximum likelihood estimation and contrastive losses to encourage compact embeddings around associated prototypes. The approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on the CIFAR-100 benchmark, demonstrating its effectiveness for OOD detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves a big problem in machine learning called out-of-distribution detection. It’s like trying to identify an alien spaceship that doesn’t look like any spaceship you’ve seen before. Right now, we don’t have good ways to detect these “alien” samples, which is important because it could help keep our machines from making mistakes or getting hacked. The researchers came up with a new way called PALM, which creates multiple “prototypes” for each type of data. This helps the model understand that there are different kinds of “aliens” within each group. They tested this approach and found it works really well, even when they didn’t have labeled training data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Likelihood * Machine learning * Palm
