ITP: Instance-Aware Test Pruning for Out-of-Distribution Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12566v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:49:26 GMT
• Title: ITP: Instance-Aware Test Pruning for Out-of-Distribution Detection
• Abstract summary: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliable deployment of deep models in real-world scenarios.<n>We propose a simple yet effective post-hoc method called Instance-aware Test Pruning (ITP)<n>ITP performs OOD detection by considering both coarse-grained and fine-grained levels of parameter pruning.
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• Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliable deployment of deep models in real-world scenarios. Recently, from the perspective of over-parameterization, a series of methods leveraging weight sparsification techniques have shown promising performance. These methods typically focus on selecting important parameters for in-distribution (ID) data to reduce the negative impact of redundant parameters on OOD detection. However, we empirically find that these selected parameters may behave overconfidently toward OOD data and hurt OOD detection. To address this issue, we propose a simple yet effective post-hoc method called Instance-aware Test Pruning (ITP), which performs OOD detection by considering both coarse-grained and fine-grained levels of parameter pruning. Specifically, ITP first estimates the class-specific parameter contribution distribution by exploring the ID data. By using the contribution distribution, ITP conducts coarse-grained pruning to eliminate redundant parameters. More importantly, ITP further adopts a fine-grained test pruning process based on the right-tailed Z-score test, which can adaptively remove instance-level overconfident parameters. Finally, ITP derives OOD scores from the pruned model to achieve more reliable predictions. Extensive experiments on widely adopted benchmarks verify the effectiveness of ITP, demonstrating its competitive performance.

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