LoD: Loss-difference OOD Detection by Intentionally Label-Noisifying Unlabeled Wild Data

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Main Authors: Geng, Chuanxing, Li, Qifei, Wang, Xinrui, Liang, Dong, Chen, Songcan, Yuen, Pong C.
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author Geng, Chuanxing
Li, Qifei
Wang, Xinrui
Liang, Dong
Chen, Songcan
Yuen, Pong C.
author_facet Geng, Chuanxing
Li, Qifei
Wang, Xinrui
Liang, Dong
Chen, Songcan
Yuen, Pong C.
contents Using unlabeled wild data containing both in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) data to improve the safety and reliability of models has recently received increasing attention. Existing methods either design customized losses for labeled ID and unlabeled wild data then perform joint optimization, or first filter out OOD data from the latter then learn an OOD detector. While achieving varying degrees of success, two potential issues remain: (i) Labeled ID data typically dominates the learning of models, inevitably making models tend to fit OOD data as IDs; (ii) The selection of thresholds for identifying OOD data in unlabeled wild data usually faces dilemma due to the unavailability of pure OOD samples. To address these issues, we propose a novel loss-difference OOD detection framework (LoD) by \textit{intentionally label-noisifying} unlabeled wild data. Such operations not only enable labeled ID data and OOD data in unlabeled wild data to jointly dominate the models' learning but also ensure the distinguishability of the losses between ID and OOD samples in unlabeled wild data, allowing the classic clustering technique (e.g., K-means) to filter these OOD samples without requiring thresholds any longer. We also provide theoretical foundation for LoD's viability, and extensive experiments verify its superiority.
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spellingShingle LoD: Loss-difference OOD Detection by Intentionally Label-Noisifying Unlabeled Wild Data
Geng, Chuanxing
Li, Qifei
Wang, Xinrui
Liang, Dong
Chen, Songcan
Yuen, Pong C.
Machine Learning
Using unlabeled wild data containing both in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) data to improve the safety and reliability of models has recently received increasing attention. Existing methods either design customized losses for labeled ID and unlabeled wild data then perform joint optimization, or first filter out OOD data from the latter then learn an OOD detector. While achieving varying degrees of success, two potential issues remain: (i) Labeled ID data typically dominates the learning of models, inevitably making models tend to fit OOD data as IDs; (ii) The selection of thresholds for identifying OOD data in unlabeled wild data usually faces dilemma due to the unavailability of pure OOD samples. To address these issues, we propose a novel loss-difference OOD detection framework (LoD) by \textit{intentionally label-noisifying} unlabeled wild data. Such operations not only enable labeled ID data and OOD data in unlabeled wild data to jointly dominate the models' learning but also ensure the distinguishability of the losses between ID and OOD samples in unlabeled wild data, allowing the classic clustering technique (e.g., K-means) to filter these OOD samples without requiring thresholds any longer. We also provide theoretical foundation for LoD's viability, and extensive experiments verify its superiority.
title LoD: Loss-difference OOD Detection by Intentionally Label-Noisifying Unlabeled Wild Data
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12952