Distilling the Unknown to Unveil Certainty

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07975v2
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:58:00 GMT
• Title: Distilling the Unknown to Unveil Certainty
• Authors: Zhilin Zhao, Longbing Cao, Yixuan Zhang, Kun-Yu Lin, Wei-Shi Zheng,
• Abstract summary: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential in identifying test samples that deviate from the in-distribution (ID) data upon which a standard network is trained. This paper introduces OOD knowledge distillation, a pioneering learning framework applicable whether or not training ID data is available.
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• Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential in identifying test samples that deviate from the in-distribution (ID) data upon which a standard network is trained, ensuring network robustness and reliability. This paper introduces OOD knowledge distillation, a pioneering learning framework applicable whether or not training ID data is available, given a standard network. This framework harnesses unknown OOD-sensitive knowledge from the standard network to craft a certain binary classifier adept at distinguishing between ID and OOD samples. To accomplish this, we introduce Confidence Amendment (CA), an innovative methodology that transforms an OOD sample into an ID one while progressively amending prediction confidence derived from the standard network. This approach enables the simultaneous synthesis of both ID and OOD samples, each accompanied by an adjusted prediction confidence, thereby facilitating the training of a binary classifier sensitive to OOD. Theoretical analysis provides bounds on the generalization error of the binary classifier, demonstrating the pivotal role of confidence amendment in enhancing OOD sensitivity. Extensive experiments spanning various datasets and network architectures confirm the efficacy of the proposed method in detecting OOD samples.

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