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Main Authors: Raina, Kevin, Schmah, Tanya
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06025
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author Raina, Kevin
Schmah, Tanya
author_facet Raina, Kevin
Schmah, Tanya
contents Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is critical to AI reliability and safety, yet in many practical settings, only a limited amount of training data is available. Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) are a promising class of model on which to base OOD detection, because they explicitly represent epistemic (i.e. model) uncertainty. In the small training data regime, BNNs are especially valuable because they can incorporate prior model information. We introduce a new family of Bayesian posthoc OOD scores based on expected logit vectors, and compare 5 Bayesian and 4 deterministic posthoc OOD scores. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR-10 In-Distributions, with 5000 training samples or less, show that the Bayesian methods outperform corresponding deterministic methods.
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spellingShingle Out-of-Distribution Detection from Small Training Sets using Bayesian Neural Network Classifiers
Raina, Kevin
Schmah, Tanya
Machine Learning
Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is critical to AI reliability and safety, yet in many practical settings, only a limited amount of training data is available. Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) are a promising class of model on which to base OOD detection, because they explicitly represent epistemic (i.e. model) uncertainty. In the small training data regime, BNNs are especially valuable because they can incorporate prior model information. We introduce a new family of Bayesian posthoc OOD scores based on expected logit vectors, and compare 5 Bayesian and 4 deterministic posthoc OOD scores. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR-10 In-Distributions, with 5000 training samples or less, show that the Bayesian methods outperform corresponding deterministic methods.
title Out-of-Distribution Detection from Small Training Sets using Bayesian Neural Network Classifiers
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06025