Towards Reliable Test-Time Adaptation: Style Invariance as a Correctness Likelihood

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Autores principales: Nam, Gilhyun, Kim, Taewon, Jeong, Joonhyun, Yang, Eunho
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Publicado: 2025
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author Nam, Gilhyun
Kim, Taewon
Jeong, Joonhyun
Yang, Eunho
author_facet Nam, Gilhyun
Kim, Taewon
Jeong, Joonhyun
Yang, Eunho
contents Test-time adaptation (TTA) enables efficient adaptation of deployed models, yet it often leads to poorly calibrated predictive uncertainty - a critical issue in high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving, finance, and healthcare. Existing calibration methods typically assume fixed models or static distributions, resulting in degraded performance under real-world, dynamic test conditions. To address these challenges, we introduce Style Invariance as a Correctness Likelihood (SICL), a framework that leverages style-invariance for robust uncertainty estimation. SICL estimates instance-wise correctness likelihood by measuring prediction consistency across style-altered variants, requiring only the model's forward pass. This makes it a plug-and-play, backpropagation-free calibration module compatible with any TTA method. Comprehensive evaluations across four baselines, five TTA methods, and two realistic scenarios with three model architecture demonstrate that SICL reduces calibration error by an average of 13 percentage points compared to conventional calibration approaches.
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spellingShingle Towards Reliable Test-Time Adaptation: Style Invariance as a Correctness Likelihood
Nam, Gilhyun
Kim, Taewon
Jeong, Joonhyun
Yang, Eunho
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Test-time adaptation (TTA) enables efficient adaptation of deployed models, yet it often leads to poorly calibrated predictive uncertainty - a critical issue in high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving, finance, and healthcare. Existing calibration methods typically assume fixed models or static distributions, resulting in degraded performance under real-world, dynamic test conditions. To address these challenges, we introduce Style Invariance as a Correctness Likelihood (SICL), a framework that leverages style-invariance for robust uncertainty estimation. SICL estimates instance-wise correctness likelihood by measuring prediction consistency across style-altered variants, requiring only the model's forward pass. This makes it a plug-and-play, backpropagation-free calibration module compatible with any TTA method. Comprehensive evaluations across four baselines, five TTA methods, and two realistic scenarios with three model architecture demonstrate that SICL reduces calibration error by an average of 13 percentage points compared to conventional calibration approaches.
title Towards Reliable Test-Time Adaptation: Style Invariance as a Correctness Likelihood
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07390