Self-Supervised Gaussian Regularization of Deep Classifiers for Mahalanobis-Distance-Based Uncertainty Estimation
| Autor: | Venkataramanan, Aishwarya, Benbihi, Assia, Laviale, Martin, Pradalier, Cedric |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Popis: | Recent works show that the data distribution in a network's latent space is useful for estimating classification uncertainty and detecting Out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. To obtain a well-regularized latent space that is conducive for uncertainty estimation, existing methods bring in significant changes to model architectures and training procedures. In this paper, we present a lightweight, fast, and high-performance regularization method for Mahalanobis distance-based uncertainty prediction, and that requires minimal changes to the network's architecture. To derive Gaussian latent representation favourable for Mahalanobis Distance calculation, we introduce a self-supervised representation learning method that separates in-class representations into multiple Gaussians. Classes with non-Gaussian representations are automatically identified and dynamically clustered into multiple new classes that are approximately Gaussian. Evaluation on standard OOD benchmarks shows that our method achieves state-of-the-art results on OOD detection with minimal inference time, and is very competitive on predictive probability calibration. Finally, we show the applicability of our method to a real-life computer vision use case on microorganism classification. 24 pages including supplementary material |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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