Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection with Refined Separate Class Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Feng, Shuai, Ge, Yuxin, Du, Yuntao, Chen, Mingcai, Wang, Chongjun, Feng, Lei
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author Feng, Shuai
Ge, Yuxin
Du, Yuntao
Chen, Mingcai
Wang, Chongjun
Feng, Lei
author_facet Feng, Shuai
Ge, Yuxin
Du, Yuntao
Chen, Mingcai
Wang, Chongjun
Feng, Lei
contents Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying robust machine learning models. However, when training data follows a long-tailed distribution, the model's ability to accurately detect OOD samples is significantly compromised, due to the confusion between OOD samples and head/tail classes. To distinguish OOD samples from both head and tail classes, the separate class learning (SCL) approach has emerged as a promising solution, which separately conduct head-specific and tail-specific class learning. To this end, we examine the limitations of existing works of SCL and reveal that the OOD detection performance is notably influenced by the use of static scaling temperature value and the presence of uninformative outliers. To mitigate these limitations, we propose a novel approach termed Refined Separate Class Learning (RSCL), which leverages dynamic class-wise temperature adjustment to modulate the temperature parameter for each in-distribution class and informative outlier mining to identify diverse types of outliers based on their affinity with head and tail classes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RSCL achieves superior OOD detection performance while improving the classification accuracy on in-distribution data.
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spellingShingle Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection with Refined Separate Class Learning
Feng, Shuai
Ge, Yuxin
Du, Yuntao
Chen, Mingcai
Wang, Chongjun
Feng, Lei
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying robust machine learning models. However, when training data follows a long-tailed distribution, the model's ability to accurately detect OOD samples is significantly compromised, due to the confusion between OOD samples and head/tail classes. To distinguish OOD samples from both head and tail classes, the separate class learning (SCL) approach has emerged as a promising solution, which separately conduct head-specific and tail-specific class learning. To this end, we examine the limitations of existing works of SCL and reveal that the OOD detection performance is notably influenced by the use of static scaling temperature value and the presence of uninformative outliers. To mitigate these limitations, we propose a novel approach termed Refined Separate Class Learning (RSCL), which leverages dynamic class-wise temperature adjustment to modulate the temperature parameter for each in-distribution class and informative outlier mining to identify diverse types of outliers based on their affinity with head and tail classes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RSCL achieves superior OOD detection performance while improving the classification accuracy on in-distribution data.
title Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection with Refined Separate Class Learning
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17034