Summary of Madod: Generalizing Ood Detection to Unseen Domains Via G-invariance Meta-learning, by Haoliang Wang et al.
MADOD: Generalizing OOD Detection to Unseen Domains via G-Invariance Meta-Learning
by Haoliang Wang, Chen Zhao, Feng Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Meta-learned Across Domain Out-of-distribution Detection (MADOD) is a novel framework for real-world machine learning applications facing simultaneous covariate and semantic shifts. This approach leverages meta-learning and G-invariance to enhance model generalizability and out-of-distribution detection in unseen domains. MADOD’s key innovation lies in task construction, randomly designating in-distribution classes as pseudo-OODs within each meta-learning task. This enables the learning of robust, domain-invariant features while calibrating decision boundaries for effective OOD detection. Operating in a test domain-agnostic setting, MADOD eliminates the need for adaptation during inference, making it suitable for scenarios where test data is unavailable. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate MADOD’s superior performance in semantic OOD detection across unseen domains, achieving an AUPR improvement of 8.48% to 20.81%, while maintaining competitive in-distribution classification accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MADOD helps machines learn better by making them understand what’s normal and what’s not. It’s like teaching a child to recognize a familiar face versus a stranger’s. MADOD does this by learning from small groups of data, then using that knowledge to detect new, unseen information that doesn’t fit the pattern. This is important because it helps machines make good decisions even when they don’t have all the information. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Inference » Machine learning » Meta learning
