arXiv Computer Vision

SVD-Based Typicality Maps for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Vision Transformers

The paper introduces a technique for examining Vision Transformers by decomposing each affine layer’s weight matrix with Singular Value Decomposition and projecting activations onto the leading right singular vectors, yielding compact, layer‑intrinsic representations. By fitting class‑conditional density models at each layer, the authors generate per‑class typicality scores that are stacked into two‑dimensional typicality maps, summarizing how class‑specific evidence evolves through the network. From these maps, two post‑hoc out‑of‑distribution detection scores are derived: the Prototype Alignment Score (PAS), which measures agreement with class reference prototypes, and the Multi‑Layer Soft Voting (MLSV) score, which captures cross‑layer consensus without stored prototypes, achieving competitive performance on ViT‑B/16 fine‑tuned on CIFAR‑100 without retraining or OOD exposure.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Vertical Fusion: Condensing Internal Representations for Robust ViT Classification

arXiv:2607. 10391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite exposing rich intermediate representations, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are almost exclusively utilized as black-box feature extractors, where only the last layer is considered for downstream tasks.

By Francesco Di Salvo, Shyam Nandan Rai, Hamed Damirchi, Ignacio Meza De la Jara, Sebastian Doerrich, Marco Lents, Christian Ledig
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Adversarially Robust Abductive Fusion of Pre-trained Transformer-based Perception Models

arXiv:2608. 04190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying pre-trained perception models in novel environments degrades their accuracy under distributional shift, and assembling them alone does not recover it: combiners such as majority voting trade recall for precision and are brittle to coordinated failures.

By Mario Leiva, Yue Ma, Qinru Qiu, Gerardo Simari, Paulo Shakarian
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509. 12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.

By Allen Schmaltz