arXiv AI

Open-Set Domain Adaptation Under Background Distribution Shift: Challenges and A Provably Efficient Solution

arXiv AI
Sep 4

ScoreMix: Synthetic Data Generation by Score Composition in Diffusion Models Improves Recognition

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 Machine Learning
Aug 27

Three-Way Open-Set Detection for Robust Autonomous Navigation

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Understanding Autonomous Driving Datasets by Describing Differences between Image Subsets in Natural Language

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.