Frustratingly Easy Feature Reconstruction for Out-of-Distribution Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06988v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:24:40 GMT
• Title: Frustratingly Easy Feature Reconstruction for Out-of-Distribution Detection
• Authors: Yingsheng Wang, Shuo Lu, Jian Liang, Aihua Zheng, Ran He,
• Abstract summary: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection helps models identify data outside the training categories, crucial for security applications.<n>While feature-based post-hoc methods address this by evaluating data differences in the feature space without changing network parameters, they often require access to training data.<n>We propose a simple yet effective post-hoc method, termed Feature Reconstruction (ClaFR), from the perspective of subspace projection.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection helps models identify data outside the training categories, crucial for security applications. While feature-based post-hoc methods address this by evaluating data differences in the feature space without changing network parameters, they often require access to training data, which may not be suitable for some data privacy scenarios. This may not be suitable in scenarios where data privacy protection is a concern. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective post-hoc method, termed Classifier-based Feature Reconstruction (ClaFR), from the perspective of subspace projection. It first performs an orthogonal decomposition of the classifier's weights to extract the class-known subspace, then maps the original data features into this subspace to obtain new data representations. Subsequently, the OOD score is determined by calculating the feature reconstruction error of the data within the subspace. Compared to existing OOD detection algorithms, our method does not require access to training data while achieving leading performance on multiple OOD benchmarks. Our code is released at https://github.com/Aie0923/ClaFR.

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