OT-DETECTOR: Delving into Optimal Transport for Zero-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06442v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:47:19 GMT
• Title: OT-DETECTOR: Delving into Optimal Transport for Zero-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection
• Authors: Yu Liu, Hao Tang, Haiqi Zhang, Jing Qin, Zechao Li,
• Abstract summary: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability and safety of machine learning models in real-world applications.<n>We present OT-DETECTOR, a novel framework that employs Optimal Transport (OT) to quantify both semantic and distributional discrepancies between test samples and ID labels.
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• Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability and safety of machine learning models in real-world applications. While zero-shot OOD detection, which requires no training on in-distribution (ID) data, has become feasible with the emergence of vision-language models like CLIP, existing methods primarily focus on semantic matching and fail to fully capture distributional discrepancies. To address these limitations, we propose OT-DETECTOR, a novel framework that employs Optimal Transport (OT) to quantify both semantic and distributional discrepancies between test samples and ID labels. Specifically, we introduce cross-modal transport mass and transport cost as semantic-wise and distribution-wise OOD scores, respectively, enabling more robust detection of OOD samples. Additionally, we present a semantic-aware content refinement (SaCR) module, which utilizes semantic cues from ID labels to amplify the distributional discrepancy between ID and hard OOD samples. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that OT-DETECTOR achieves state-of-the-art performance across various OOD detection tasks, particularly in challenging hard-OOD scenarios.

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