Low-Dimensional Gradient Helps Out-of-Distribution Detection

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Main Authors: Wu, Yingwen, Li, Tao, Cheng, Xinwen, Yang, Jie, Huang, Xiaolin
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Published: 2023
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author Wu, Yingwen
Li, Tao
Cheng, Xinwen
Yang, Jie
Huang, Xiaolin
author_facet Wu, Yingwen
Li, Tao
Cheng, Xinwen
Yang, Jie
Huang, Xiaolin
contents Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential for ensuring the reliability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in real-world scenarios. While previous research has predominantly investigated the disparity between in-distribution (ID) and OOD data through forward information analysis, the discrepancy in parameter gradients during the backward process of DNNs has received insufficient attention. Existing studies on gradient disparities mainly focus on the utilization of gradient norms, neglecting the wealth of information embedded in gradient directions. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we conduct a comprehensive investigation into leveraging the entirety of gradient information for OOD detection. The primary challenge arises from the high dimensionality of gradients due to the large number of network parameters. To solve this problem, we propose performing linear dimension reduction on the gradient using a designated subspace that comprises principal components. This innovative technique enables us to obtain a low-dimensional representation of the gradient with minimal information loss. Subsequently, by integrating the reduced gradient with various existing detection score functions, our approach demonstrates superior performance across a wide range of detection tasks. For instance, on the ImageNet benchmark with ResNet50 model, our method achieves an average reduction of 11.15$\%$ in the false positive rate at 95$\%$ recall (FPR95) compared to the current state-of-the-art approach. The code would be released.
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spellingShingle Low-Dimensional Gradient Helps Out-of-Distribution Detection
Wu, Yingwen
Li, Tao
Cheng, Xinwen
Yang, Jie
Huang, Xiaolin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential for ensuring the reliability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in real-world scenarios. While previous research has predominantly investigated the disparity between in-distribution (ID) and OOD data through forward information analysis, the discrepancy in parameter gradients during the backward process of DNNs has received insufficient attention. Existing studies on gradient disparities mainly focus on the utilization of gradient norms, neglecting the wealth of information embedded in gradient directions. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we conduct a comprehensive investigation into leveraging the entirety of gradient information for OOD detection. The primary challenge arises from the high dimensionality of gradients due to the large number of network parameters. To solve this problem, we propose performing linear dimension reduction on the gradient using a designated subspace that comprises principal components. This innovative technique enables us to obtain a low-dimensional representation of the gradient with minimal information loss. Subsequently, by integrating the reduced gradient with various existing detection score functions, our approach demonstrates superior performance across a wide range of detection tasks. For instance, on the ImageNet benchmark with ResNet50 model, our method achieves an average reduction of 11.15$\%$ in the false positive rate at 95$\%$ recall (FPR95) compared to the current state-of-the-art approach. The code would be released.
title Low-Dimensional Gradient Helps Out-of-Distribution Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17163