arXiv:2404. 10370v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open set recognition (OSR) is a critical aspect of machine learning, addressing the challenge of detecting novel classes during inference.
By Jiawen Xu, Margret Keuper
ScoreMix is a self‑contained synthetic data generation method that improves recognition tasks by mixing class‑conditioned scores along reverse diffusion trajectories, thereby creating hard synthetic samples without external resources. The approach shows that selecting classes far apart in the discriminator’s embedding space yields larger performance gains, up to 3% more improvement than proximity‑based selection. Across eight public face recognition benchmarks, ScoreMix boosts accuracy by up to 7 percentage points, demonstrating robustness and practicality without hyperparameter tuning.
By Parsa Rahimi, Sebastien Marcel
arXiv:2603. 18481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a critical challenge in open-world learning, where models must adapt to evolving data distributions.
By Aditi Naiknaware, Salimeh Sekeh
arXiv:2606. 32018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classifiers based on Deep Neural Networks exhibit strong performance across domains, yet can fail catastrophically if they rely on spurious correlations, i.
By Cesar Roder, Kajetan Schweighofer
arXiv:2606. 23758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Domain generalization learns from multiple source domains to generalize to unseen target domains.
By Xiran Wang, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yang Gao, Yinghuan Shi
Training-free few-shot adaptation methods have gained significant attention recently in the context of Vision-language Models (VLMs). Yet, current benchmarks rely on strong assumptions about the statistics of the adaptation data, e.
arXiv:2606. 26973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-set semi-supervised learning aims to leverage unlabeled data that may contain out-of-distribution outliers while maintaining performance on in-distribution classes.
By Jiahe Chen, Qian Shao, Qiyuan Chen, Jiaying He, Jintai Chen, Jian Wu, Hongxia Xu
The paper proposes a three-way open-set detection framework for autonomous navigation, classifying each detection as a known object, unknown object, or background based on a pretrained detector’s outputs. It introduces domain generalization and adaptation methods, evaluates them across various detector families and benchmarks, and demonstrates that this approach improves safety and efficiency in simulated navigation missions compared to binary detection methods.
By Spyridon Loukovitis, Vasileios Karampinis, Athanasios Voulodimos
The paper introduces set difference captioning for autonomous driving datasets, aiming to generate natural‑language descriptions of differences between two image subsets. It adapts a two‑stage approach to focus on object‑centric patches, enabling attribution of differences to specific objects or categories. A new benchmark, AD‑Diff Bench, is presented to evaluate this method, especially for sparse, real‑world differences, and the authors provide open‑weight models and code for reproducibility.
arXiv:2407. 21311v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to mitigate domain shift, where the distribution of labeled source data differs from that of unlabeled target data.
By Ali Abedi, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Ning Zhang, Farhad Pourpanah
arXiv:2609.37331v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Balancing performance trade-offs on long-tailed data distributions remains a long-standing challenge in visual recognition. Existing methods mainly imp...
By Shenghan Chen, Yiming Liu, Zhipeng Deng, Haolin Wang, Jiale Zhou, Zhijian Wu, Xiankai Lu, Yafei Ou, Yefeng Zheng
arXiv:2610.00030v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Object detection models often experience performance degradation when deployed under distribution shifts, caused by for example changes in weather type...
By Elfi I. S. Hofmeijer, Ella P. Fokkinga, Friso G. Heslinga, Klamer Schutte, J\"orgen M. Karlholm