Thinking in Groups: Permutation Tests Reveal Near-Out-of-Distribution

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Jayawardana, Yasith, Jayakody, Dineth, Jayarathna, Sampath, Wadduwage, Dushan N.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866914094295023616
author Jayawardana, Yasith
Jayakody, Dineth
Jayarathna, Sampath
Wadduwage, Dushan N.
author_facet Jayawardana, Yasith
Jayakody, Dineth
Jayarathna, Sampath
Wadduwage, Dushan N.
contents Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the potential to power many biomedical workflows, but training them on truly representative, IID datasets is often infeasible. Most models instead rely on biased or incomplete data, making them prone to out-of-distribution (OoD) inputs that closely resemble in-distribution samples. Such near-OoD cases are harder to detect than standard OOD benchmarks and can cause unreliable, even catastrophic, predictions. Biomedical assays, however, offer a unique opportunity: they often generate multiple correlated measurements per specimen through biological or technical replicates. Exploiting this insight, we introduce Homogeneous OoD (HOoD), a novel OoD detection framework for correlated data. HOoD projects groups of correlated measurements through a trained model and uses permutation-based hypothesis tests to compare them with known subpopulations. Each test yields an interpretable p-value, quantifying how well a group matches a subpopulation. By aggregating these p-values, HOoD reliably identifies OoD groups. In evaluations, HOoD consistently outperforms point-wise and ensemble-based OoD detectors, demonstrating its promise for robust real-world deployment.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_14058
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Thinking in Groups: Permutation Tests Reveal Near-Out-of-Distribution
Jayawardana, Yasith
Jayakody, Dineth
Jayarathna, Sampath
Wadduwage, Dushan N.
Machine Learning
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the potential to power many biomedical workflows, but training them on truly representative, IID datasets is often infeasible. Most models instead rely on biased or incomplete data, making them prone to out-of-distribution (OoD) inputs that closely resemble in-distribution samples. Such near-OoD cases are harder to detect than standard OOD benchmarks and can cause unreliable, even catastrophic, predictions. Biomedical assays, however, offer a unique opportunity: they often generate multiple correlated measurements per specimen through biological or technical replicates. Exploiting this insight, we introduce Homogeneous OoD (HOoD), a novel OoD detection framework for correlated data. HOoD projects groups of correlated measurements through a trained model and uses permutation-based hypothesis tests to compare them with known subpopulations. Each test yields an interpretable p-value, quantifying how well a group matches a subpopulation. By aggregating these p-values, HOoD reliably identifies OoD groups. In evaluations, HOoD consistently outperforms point-wise and ensemble-based OoD detectors, demonstrating its promise for robust real-world deployment.
title Thinking in Groups: Permutation Tests Reveal Near-Out-of-Distribution
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14058