OOD detection gains mostly reflect dataset identity, not novelty

By testing on held-out OOD datasets rather than held-out samples, the authors show that most reported improvements vanish.

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Donghoon Lee · Shinjin Kang

Hongik University

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Lee and Kang measured how much of the reported out-of-distribution detection gain survives when the detector is tested on an OOD dataset it has never seen—not just on held-out samples of the same dataset.

The authors apply post-hoc OOD detectors to ImageNet and CIFAR-100 backbones.

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Most reported OOD detection gain is inflated by dataset identity, not novelty.

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