Openmix: Exploring outlier samples for misclassification detection

F Zhu, Z Cheng, XY Zhang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Reliable confidence estimation for deep neural classifiers is a challenging yet fundamental
requirement in high-stakes applications. Unfortunately, modern deep neural networks are …

Unified classification and rejection: A one-versus-all framework

Z Cheng, XY Zhang, CL Liu - Machine Intelligence Research, 2024 - Springer
Classifying patterns of known classes and rejecting ambiguous and novel (also called as out-
of-distribution (OOD)) inputs are involved in open world pattern recognition. Deep neural …

RCL: Reliable Continual Learning for Unified Failure Detection

F Zhu, Z Cheng, XY Zhang, CL Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep neural networks are known to be overconfident for what they don't know in the wild
which is undesirable for decision-making in high-stakes applications. Despite quantities of …

Revisiting confidence estimation: Towards reliable failure prediction

F Zhu, XY Zhang, Z Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable confidence estimation is a challenging yet fundamental requirement in many risk-
sensitive applications. However, modern deep neural networks are often overconfident for …

Breaking the limits of reliable prediction via generated data

Z Cheng, F Zhu, XY Zhang, CL Liu - International Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
In open-world recognition of safety-critical applications, providing reliable prediction for
deep neural networks has become a critical requirement. Many methods have been …

Optimal parameter and neuron pruning for out-of-distribution detection

C Chen, Z Fu, K Liu, Z Chen… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
For a machine learning model deployed in real world scenarios, the ability of detecting out-
of-distribution (OOD) samples is indispensable and challenging. Most existing OOD …

Pass++: A dual bias reduction framework for non-exemplar class-incremental learning

F Zhu, XY Zhang, Z Cheng, CL Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14029, 2024 - arxiv.org
Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize new classes incrementally while
maintaining the discriminability of old classes. Most existing CIL methods are exemplar …

Enhancing Outlier Knowledge for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Extensible Local Prompts

F Zeng, Z Cheng, F Zhu, XY Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04796, 2024 - arxiv.org
Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection, aiming to distinguish outliers from known categories,
has gained prominence in practical scenarios. Recently, the advent of vision-language …

Comprehensive assessment of the performance of deep learning classifiers reveals a surprising lack of robustness

MW Spratling - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04137, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reliable and robust evaluation methods are a necessary first step towards developing
machine learning models that are themselves robust and reliable. Unfortunately, current …

Textual out-of-distribution (OOD) detection for LLM quality assurance

T Ouyang, Y Seo, I Echizen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical for ensuring AI quality and reliability,
particularly with the rise of large models characterized by immense parameters and complex …