Enhancing The Reliability of Out-of-distribution Image Detection in Neural Networks

Shiyu Liang, Yixuan Li, R. Srikant, ,

Abstract: We consider the problem of detecting out-of-distribution images in neural networks. We propose ODIN, a simple and effective method that does not require any change to a pre-trained neural network. Our method is based on the observation that using temperature scaling and adding small perturbations to the input can separate the softmax score distributions of in- and out-of-distribution images, allowing for more effective detection. We show in a series of experiments that ODIN is compatible with diverse network architectures and datasets. It consistently outperforms the baseline approach by a large margin, establishing a new state-of-the-art performance on this task. For example, ODIN reduces the false positive rate from the baseline 34.7% to 4.3% on the DenseNet (applied to CIFAR-10 and Tiny-ImageNet) when the true positive rate is 95%.

Keywords: Neural networks, out-of-distribution detection

Code: [ facebookresearch/odin](https://github.com/facebookresearch/odin) + [ 7 community implementations](https://paperswithcode.com/paper/?openreview=H1VGkIxRZ)

Data: [CIFAR-10](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/cifar-10), [CIFAR-100](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/cifar-100), [ImageNet](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/imagenet), [iSUN](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/isun)

Community Implementations: [ 5 code implementations](https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:1706.02690/code)