Exploiting Inter-Sample Information for Long-tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16015v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:31:37 GMT
• Title: Exploiting Inter-Sample Information for Long-tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection
• Authors: Nimeshika Udayangani, Hadi M. Dolatabadi, Sarah Erfani, Christopher Leckie,
• Abstract summary: We show that exploiting inter-sample relationships can significantly improve OOD detection in long-tailed recognition of vision datasets.<n>Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches by a large margin in terms of FPR and tail-class ID classification accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is essential for safe deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs). This problem becomes particularly challenging in the presence of long-tailed in-distribution (ID) datasets, often leading to high false positive rates (FPR) and low tail-class ID classification accuracy. In this paper, we demonstrate that exploiting inter-sample relationships using a graph-based representation can significantly improve OOD detection in long-tailed recognition of vision datasets. To this end, we use the feature space of a pre-trained model to initialize our graph structure. We account for the differences between the activation layer distribution of the pre-training vs. training data, and actively introduce Gaussianization to alleviate any deviations from a standard normal distribution in the activation layers of the pre-trained model. We then refine this initial graph representation using graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to arrive at a feature space suitable for long-tailed OOD detection. This leads us to address the inferior performance observed in ID tail-classes within existing OOD detection methods. Experiments over three benchmarks CIFAR10-LT, CIFAR100-LT, and ImageNet-LT demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches by a large margin in terms of FPR and tail-class ID classification accuracy.

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