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Awesome Out-of-distribution DetectionAwesome

A curated list of awesome out-of-distribution detection resources.

The organization of papers refers to our survey "Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Task-Oriented Survey of Recent Advances".

Please let us know if you find out a mistake or have any suggestions by e-mail: shulucs@gmail.com

If you find our survey useful for your research, please cite the following paper:

@article{lu2025out,
  title={Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Task-Oriented Survey of Recent Advances},
  author={Lu, Shuo and Wang, Yingsheng and Sheng, Lijun and He, Lingxiao and Zheng, Aihua and Liang, Jian},
  journal={ACM Computing Surveys},
  year={2025},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}

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[2025-08-18]: 🏅 Our paper has been selected to appear in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Showcase on Kudos!

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Contents

Training-driven OOD Detection

Approaches with only ID Data

Reconstruction-based

  • DiffPath [Heng et al.][NeurIPS 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection with a Single Unconditional Diffusion Model[PDF]
  • Exploiting Diffusion Prior [Liu et al.][arXiv 2024]Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • Resultant [Li et al.][arXiv 2024]Resultant Incremental Effectiveness on Likelihood for Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • DisCoPatch [Caetano et al.][arXiv 2024]DisCoPatch: Batch Statistics Are All You Need For OOD Detection, But Only If You Can Trust Them[PDF]
  • MOOD [Li et al.][CVPR 2023]Rethinking Out-of-distribution (OOD) Detection: Masked Image Modeling is All You Need[PDF][CODE]
  • MOODv2 [li et al.][arXiv]Moodv2: Masked image modeling for out-of-distribution detection.[PDF]
  • PRE [osada et al.][WACV 2023]Out-of-Distribution Detection with Reconstruction Error and Typicality-based Penalty[PDF]
  • [graham et al.][CVPR 2023]Denoising diffusion models for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • LMD [Liu et al.][ICML 2023]Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection with Diffusion Inpainting[PDF][CODE]
  • DiffGuard [Gao et al.][ICCV 2023]DiffGuard: Semantic Mismatch-Guided Out-of-Distribution Detection using Pre-trained Diffusion Models[PDF][CODE]
  • DenoDiff [Graham et al.][CVPR 2023]Denoising diffusion models for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • MoodCat [Yang et al.][ECCV 2022]Out-of-distribution detection with semantic mismatch under masking[PDF][CODE]
  • RAE [Yibo Zhou][CVPR 2022]Rethinking reconstruction autoencoder-based out-of-distribution detection[PDF]

Probability-based

  • Credal Wrapper [Wang et al.][ICLR 2025 Spotlight]Credal Wrapper of Model Averaging for Uncertainty Estimation on Out-Of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • LID [Kamkari et al.][ICML 2024] A Geometric Explanation of the Likelihood OOD Detection Paradox[PDF][CODE]
  • HVCM [Li et al.][ICCV 2023]Hierarchical Visual Categories Modeling: A Joint Representation Learning and Density Estimation Framework for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • DDR [Huang et al.][NeurIPS 2022]Density-driven Regularization for Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF]

Logits-based

  • UE-NL [Huang et al.][CAICE 2023]Uncertainty-estimation with normalized logits for out-of-distribution detection[PDF]
  • DML [Zhang et al.][CVPR 2023]Decoupling MaxLogit for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • LogitNorm [Wei et al.][ICML 2022]Mitigating neural network overconfidence with logit normalization[PDF][CODE]

OOD Synthesis

  • POP [Gong et al.][AAAI 2025]Out-of-Distribution Detection with Prototypical Outlier Proxy[PDF][CODE]
  • HamOS [Li et al.][ICLR 2025]Outlier Synthesis via Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • Forte [Ganguly et al.][[ICLR 2025]Forte: Finding Outliers with Representation Typicality Estimation[PDF]
  • FodFoM [Chen et al.][MM 2024]Fake Outlier Data by Foundation Models Creates Stronger Visual Out-of-Distribution Detector[PDF]
  • ASCOOD [Regmi et al.][arXiv 2024]Going Beyond Conventional OOD Detection[PDF]
  • OAL [Gao et al.][arXiv 2024]Enhancing OOD Detection Using Latent Diffusion[PDF]
  • DML-OOD [Wahd et al.][arXiv 2024]Deep Metric Learning-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection with Synthetic Outlier Exposure[PDF]
  • HamOS [Li et al.][arXiv 2023]Outlier Synthesis via Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • SSOD [Sen Pei][ICLR 2024]Image background serves as good proxy for out-of-distribution data[PDF]
  • SEM [Yang et al.][IJCV 2023]Full-Spectrum out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • NPOS [Tao et al.][ICLR 2023]Non-parametric outlier synthesis[PDF][CODE]
  • SHIFT [Kwon et al.][BMVC 2023]Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection Performance using Synthetic Outlier Exposure Generated by Visual Foundation Models[PDF][CODE]
  • ATOL [Zheng et al.][NeurIPS 2023]Out-of-distribution Detection Learning with Unreliable Out-of-distribution Sources[PDF][CODE]
  • CMG [Wang et al.][ECML 2022]CMG: A class-mixed generation approach to out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • VOS [Du et al.][ICLR 2022]Vos: Learning what you don't know by virtual outlier synthesis[PDF][CODE]
  • CODEs [Tang et al.][ICCV 2021]CODEs: Chamfer out-of-distribution examples against overconfidence issue[PDF]
  • ConfiCali [Lee et al.][ICLR 2018]Training confidence-calibrated classifiers for detecting out-of-distribution samples[PDF][CODE]

Prototype-based

  • PFS [Wu et al.][ICLR 2025]Pursuing feature separation based on neural collapse for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • AROS [Mirzaei et al.][ICLR 2025]Adversarially robust out-of-distribution detection using lyapunov-stabilized embeddings[PDF][CODE]
  • PB&J [Sit et al.][arXiv 2024]Improving Explainability of Softmax Classifiers Using a Prototype-Based Joint Embedding Method[PDF]
  • PALM [Lu et al.][ICLR 2024]Learning with mixture of prototypes for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • ReweightOOD [Regmi et al.][CVPR 2024]Reweightood: Loss reweighting for distance-based ood detection[PDF]
  • CIDER [Ming et al.][ICLR 2023]How to exploit hyperspherical embeddings for out-of-distribution detection?[PDF][CODE]
  • POP [Gong et al.][arXiv 2023]Out-of-Distribution Detection with Prototypical Outlier Proxy[PDF]
  • Siren [Du et al.][NeurIPS 2022]Siren: Shaping representations for detecting out-of-distribution objects[PDF][CODE]
  • Step [Zhou et al.][NeurIPS 2021]STEP : Out-of-Distribution Detection in the Presence of Limited In-distribution Labeled Data[PDF]

Long-tail ID data

  • RNA [Wang et al.][arXiv 2023]Representation Norm Amplification for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Long-Tail Learning[PDF]
  • PATT [Liu et al.][arXiv 2023]Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection Prioritizing Attention to Tail[PDF]
  • ImOOD [Zhang et al.][arXiv 2023]Rethinking Out-of-Distribution Detection on Imbalanced Data Distribution[PDF]
  • COOD [Hogeweg et al.][CVPR 2024]Cood: Combined out-of-distribution detection using multiple measures for anomaly & novel class detection in large-scale hierarchical classification[PDF]
  • AREO[Sapkota et al.][ICLR 2023]Adaptive Robust Evidential Optimization For Open Set Detection from Imbalanced Data[PDF]
  • IDCP [Jiang et al.][ICML 2023]Detecting out-of-distribution data through in-distribution class prior[PDF][CODE]
  • Open-Sampling [Wei et al.][ICML 2023]Open-sampling: Exploring out-of-distribution data for re-balancing long-tailed datasets[PDF]
  • II-Mixup [Mehta et al.][MICCAI 2022]Out-of-distribution detection for long-tailed and fine-grained skin lesion images[PDF][CODE]
  • OLTR [Liu et al.][CVPR 2019]Large-scale long-tailed recognition in an open world[PDF][CODE]

Approaches with Both ID and OOD Data

Boundary Regularization

  • MixOE [Zhang et al.][WACV 2023]Mixture Outlier Exposure: Towards Out-of-Distribution Detection in Fine-grained Environments[PDF][CODE]
  • SSL-GOOD [Mohseni et al.][AAAI 2020]Self-supervised learning for generalizable out-of-distribution detection[PDF]
  • EnergyOE [Liu et al.][NeurIPS 2020]Energy-based out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • OE [Hendrycks et al.][ICLR 2019]Deep anomaly detection with outlier exposure[PDF][CODE]
  • Why-RELU [Hein et al.][CVPR 2019]Why relu networks yield high-confidence predictions far away from the training data and how to mitigate the problem[PDF][CODE]
  • ELOC [Vyas et al.][ECCV 2018]Out-of-distribution detection using an ensemble of self supervised leave-out classifier[PDF]

Outlier Mining

  • DAOL [Wang et al.][NeurIPS 2023]Learning to Augment Distributions for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • DOE [Wang et al.][ICLR 2023]Out-of-distribution detection with implicit outlier transformation[PDF][CODE]
  • MixOE [Zhang et al.][WACV 2023]Mixture Outlier Exposure: Towards Out-of-Distribution Detection in Fine-grained Environments[PDF][CODE]
  • DivOE [Zhu et al.][NeurIPS 2023]Diversified Outlier Exposure for Out-of-Distribution Detection via Informative Extrapolation[PDF][CODE]
  • POEM [Ming et al.][PMLR 2022]POEM: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Posterior Sampling[PDF][CODE]
  • BD-Resamp [Li et al.][CVPR 2020]Background data resampling for outlier-aware classification[PDF][CODE]

Imbalanced ID

  • COCL [Miao et al.][AAAI 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection in Long-Tailed Recognition with Calibrated Outlier Class Learning[PDF][CODE]
  • EAT [Wei et al.][AAAI 2024]EAT: Towards Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • BERL [Choi et al.][CVPR 2023]Balanced Energy Regularization Loss for Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF]
  • PASCAL [Wang et al.][ICML 2022]Partial and asymmetric contrastive learning for out-of-distribution detection in long-tailed recognition[PDF][CODE]

Training-agnostic OOD Detection

Post-hoc Approaches

Output-based

  • AdaSCALE [Regmi et al.][arXiv 2024]AdaSCALE: Adaptive Scaling for OOD Detection[PDF]
  • MixDiff [Lee et al.][arXiv 2024]Perturb-and-Compare Approach for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Samples in Constrained Access Environ[PDF]
  • ZODE [Xue et al.][CVPR 2024]Enhancing the power of ood detection via sample-aware model selection[PDF]
  • LogicOOD [Kirchheim et al.][WACV 2024]Out-of-distribution detection with logical reasoning[PDF][CODE]
  • GEN [Liu et al.][CVPR 2023]GEN: Pushing the limits of softmax-based out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • MaxLogits [Hendrycks et al.][ICML 2022]Scaling out-of-distribution detection for real-world setting[PDF][CODE]
  • Energy [Liu et al.][NeurIPS 2020]Energy-based out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • MSP [Hendrycks et al.][ICLR 2017]A baseline for detecting misclassified and out-of-distribution examples in neural networks[PDF][CODE]

Distance-based

  • POT [Ke et al.][ICLR 2025]Prototype-based Optimal Transport for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • LAFO [Demirel et al.][arXiv 2024]Look Around and Find Out OOD Detection with Relative Angles[PDF]
  • NNGuide [Park et al.][ICCV 2023]Nearest neighbor guidance for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • KNN [Sun et al.][ICML 2022]Out-of-distribution detection with deep nearest neighbors[PDF][CODE]
  • SSD [Sehwag et al.][ICLR 2021]Ssd: A unified framework for self-supervised outlier detection[PDF][CODE]
  • Mahalanobis [Lee et al.][NeurIPS 2018]A simple unified framework for detecting out-of-distribution samples and adversarialattacks[PDF][CODE]

Gradient-based

  • PRO [Chen et al.][arXiv 2024]Leveraging Perturbation Robustness to Enhance Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • GReg [Sharifi et al.][arXiv 2024]Gradient-Regularized Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • OPNP [Chen et al.][NeurIPS 2024]Optimal parameter and neuron pruning for out-of-distribution detection[PDF]
  • GradOrth [Behpour et al.][NeurIPS 2023]GradOrth: A Simple yet Efficient Out-of-Distribution Detection with Orthogonal Projection of Gradients[PDF]
  • GAIA [Chen et al.][NeurIPS 2023]GAIA: Delving into Gradient-based Attribution Abnormality for Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF]
  • GradNorm [Huang et al.][NeurIPS 2021]On the importance of gradients for detecting distributional shifts in the wild[PDF][CODE]
  • Grad [Lee et al.][ICIP 2020]Gradients as a measure of uncertainty in neural networks[PDF]

Feature-based

  • NCI [Liu et al.][CVPR 2025]Detecting out-of-distribution through the lens of neural collapse[PDF][CODE]
  • CADRef [Ling et al.][CVPR 2025]CADRef: Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection via Class-Aware Decoupled Relative Feature Leveraging[PDF]
  • KANs [Canevaro et al.][ICLR 2025]Advancing Out-of-Distribution Detection via Local Neuroplasticity[PDF]
  • ITP [Xu et al.][AAAI 2025]ITP: Instance-aware test pruning for out-of-distribution detection[PDF]
  • WeiPer [Granz et al.][NeurIPS 2024]WeiPer: OOD Detection using Weight Perturbations of Class Projections[PDF]
  • CEA [Azizmalayeri et al.][UAI 2024]Mitigating Overconfidence in Out-of-Distribution Detection by Capturing Extreme Activations[PDF]
  • NAC [Liu et al.][ICLR 2024]Neuron activation coverage: Rethinking out-of-distribution detection and generalization[PDF][CODE]
  • Neco [Ammar et al.][ICLR 2024]NECO: NEural Collapse Based Out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • Optimal-FS [Zhao et al.][ICLR 2024]Towards optimal feature-shaping methods for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • BLOOD [Jelenić et al.][ICLR 2024]Out-of-distribution detection by leveraging between-layer transformation smoothness[PDF][CODE]
  • SCALE [Xu et al.][ICLR 2024]Scaling for training time and post-hoc out-of-distribution detection enhancement[PDF][CODE]
  • DDCS [Yuan et al.][CVPR 2024]Discriminability-driven channel selection for out-of-distribution detection[PDF]
  • VRA [Xu et al.][NeurIPS 2023]VRA: Variational Rectified Activation for Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • ASH [Djurisic et al.][ICLR 2023]Extremely simple activation shaping for out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]
  • LINe [Ahn et al.][CVPR 2023]LINe: Out-of-Distribution Detection by Leveraging Important Neurons[PDF][CODE]
  • SHE [Zhang et al.][ICLR 2022]Out-of-distribution detection based on in-distribution data patterns memorization with modern hopfield energy[PDF][CODE]
  • ViM [Wang et al.][CVPR 2022]Vim: Out-of-distribution with virtual-logit matching[PDF][CODE]
  • ReAct [Sun et al.][NeurIPS 2021]ReAct: Out-of-distribution detection with rectified activations[PDF][CODE]
  • ODIN [Liang et al.][ICLR 2018]Enhancing the reliability of out-of-distribution image detection in neural networks[PDF][CODE]

Density-based

  • INK [Burapacheep et al.][TMLR 2024]Your Classifier Can Be Secretly a Likelihood-Based OOD Detector[PDF]
  • ConjNorm [Peng et al.][ICLR 2024]ConjNorm: Tractable Density Estimation for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • GEM [Morteza et al.][AAAI 2022]Provable Guarantees for Understanding Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

Test Time Adaptive Approaches

Theoretical support

  • ...[Fang et al.][NeurIPS 2022]Is Out-of-Distribution Detection Learnable?[PDF]

  • UniEnt[Gao et al.][arxiv 2024]Unified Entropy Optimization for Open-Set Test-Time Adaptation[PDF][CODE]

Model update-needed

  • SAL[Du et al.][ICLR 2024]HOW DOES UNLABELED DATA PROVABLY HELP OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DETECTION? [PDF][CODE]

  • ATTA[Gao et al.][NeurIPS 2023]ATTA: Anomaly-aware Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Segmentation[PDF][CODE]

  • MOL[Wu et al.][CVPR 2023]Meta OOD Learning For Continuously Adaptive OOD Detection[PDF]

  • SODA[Geng et al.][arxiv 2023]SODA: Stream Out-of-Distribution Adaptation[PDF]

  • AUTO[Yang et al.][arxiv 2023]AUTO: Adaptive Outlier Optimization for Online Test-Time OOD Detection[PDF]

  • WOODS[Katz-Samuels et al.][ICML 2022]Training OOD Detectors in their Natural Habitats[PDF][CODE]

Model update-free

  • OODD [Yang et al.][CVPR 2025]OODD: Test-time Out-of-Distribution Detection with Dynamic Dictionary[PDF][CODE]

  • RTL[Fan et al.][CVPR 2024]Test-time linear out-of-distribution detection[PDF][CODE]

  • ETLT[Fan et al.][arxiv 2023/CVPR 2024]A Simple Test-Time Method for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • GOODAT[Wang et al.][AAAI 2024]Towards Test-time Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • AdaOOD[Zhang et al.][arxiv 2023]Model-free Test Time Adaptation for Out-Of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

LPM-based OOD Detection

Zero-shot Approaches

Transitional work

  • One-Class-Anything[Ge et al.][arxiv 2023]Building One-class Detector for Anything: Open-vocabulary Zero-shot OOD Detection Using Text-image Models [PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Fort et al.][NeurIPS 2021]Exploring the Limits of Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

VLM-based

DIffusion-based

  • RONIN[Nguyen et al.][arxiv 2024]Zero-Shot Object-Level Out-of-Distribution Detection with Context-Aware Inpainting[PDF]

CLIP-based

  • OT-DETECTOR [Liu et al.][arXiv 2025]OT-DETECTOR: Delving into Optimal Transport for Zero-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • ... [Zou et al.][arxiv 2024]SimLabel: Consistency-Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models[PDF]
  • LAPT [Zhang et al.][ECCV 2024]Label-driven Automated Prompt Tuning for OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models[PDF]
  • OLE [Ding et al.][IJCNN 2024]Zero-shot out-of-distribution detection with outlier label exposure[PDF]
  • ... [Jung et al.][arxiv 2024]Enhancing Near OOD Detection in Prompt Learning: Maximum Gains, Minimal Costs[PDF]
  • SeTAR [Li et al.][NeurIPS 2024]SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation[PDF] [CODE]
  • CSP [Liu et al.][NeurIPS 2024]Conjugated Semantic Pool Improves OOD Detection with Pre-trained Vision-Language Models[PDF]
  • CoVer [Chen et al.][NeurIPS 2024]What If the Input is Expanded in OOD Detection[PDF]
  • AdaNeg[Zhang et al.][NeurIPS 2024]AdaNeg: Adaptive Negative Proxy Guided OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models[PDF][CODE]
  • CLIPScope[Fu et al.][arxiv 2024]CLIPScope: Enhancing Zero-Shot OOD Detection with Bayesian Scoring[PDF]
  • NegLabel[Jiang et al.][ICLR 2024]Negative Label Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models[PDF][CODE]
  • CLIPN[Wang et al.][ICCV 2022]CLIPN for Zero-Shot OOD Detection: Teaching CLIP to Say No[PDF][CODE]
  • MCM[Ming et al.][NeurIPS 2022]Delving into Out-of-Distribution Detection with Vision-Language Representations [PDF][CODE]
  • ZOC [S'Esmaeilpour et al.][AAAI 2022]Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection Based on the Pre-trained Model CLIP [PDF][CODE]

LLM-based

  • COOD[Liu et al.][arxiv 2024]COOD: Concept-based Zero-shot OOD Detection[PDF]

  • CMA[Lee et al.][arxiv 2024]Concept Matching with Agent for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • ReGuide[Lee et al.][arxiv 2024]Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation[PDF]

  • SimLabel[Zou et al.][arxiv 2024]SimLabel: Consistency-Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models[PDF]

  • ...[Salimben][arxiv 2024]Beyond fine-tuning: LoRA modules boost near-OOD detection and LLM security[PDF]

  • VI-OOD[Zhan et al.][arxiv 2024]VI-OOD: A Unified Representation Learning Framework for Textual[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Bendou et al.][arxiv 2024]LLM meets Vision-Language Models for Zero-Shot One-Class Classification[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Liu et al.][arxiv 2024]How Good Are Large Language Models at Out-of-Distribution Detection?[PDF]

  • ...[Huang et al.][arxiv 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection Using Peer-Class Generated by Large Language Model[PDF]

  • ...[Dai el al.][EMNLP 2023]Exploring Large Language Models for Multi-Modal Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

Zero-shot ID detection

  • GL-MCM[Miyai et al.][arxiv 2023]Zero-Shot In-Distribution Detection in Multi-Object Settings Using Vision-Language Foundation Models[PDF][CODE]

Few-shot Approaches

Study

  • ...[Kim et al.][ICEIC 2024]Comparison of Out-of-Distribution Detection Performance of CLIP-based Fine-Tuning Methods[PDF]
  • ...[Ming et al.][IJCV 2023]How Does Fine-Tuning Impact Out-of-Distribution Detection for Vision-Language Models?[PDF]
  • DSGF[Dong et al.][arxiv 2023]Towards Few-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • ...[Fort et al.][NeurIPS 2021]Exploring the Limits of Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

Meta-learning-based

  • HyperMix[Mehta et al.][WACV 2024]HyperMix: Out-of-Distribution Detection and Classification in Few-Shot Settings[PDF]

  • OOD-MAML[Jeong et al.][NeurIPS 2020]OOD-MAML: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection and Classification[PDF][CODE]

Fine-tuning-based

  • SUPREME [Wang et al.][arXiv 2025]Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image-Text Consistency[PDF]
  • GaCoOp [Tong et al.][arXiv 2024]Enhancing Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Gradient Aligned Context Optimization[PDF]
  • CLIP-OS [Sun et al.][arXiv 2024]CLIP-Driven Outliers Synthesis for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • NegPrompt [Li et al.][CVPR 2024] Learning Transferable Negative Prompts for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • GalLoP [Lafon et al.][arXiv 2024] GalLoP: Learning Global and Local Prompts for Vision-Language Models[PDF]
  • Local-Prompt [Li et al.][ICLR 2025]Local-Prompt: Extensible Local Prompts for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • SCT [Yu et al.][NeurIPS 2024]Self-Calibrated Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]
  • LSN [Nie et al.][ICLR 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection with Negative Prompts[PDF]
  • ID-like [Bai et al.][CVPR 2024]ID-like Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • DSGF [Dong et al.][arXiv 2023]Towards Few-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]
  • LoCoOp[Miyai et al.][NeurIPS 2023]LoCoOp:Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Prompt Learning[[PDF](https:// openreview.net/forum?id=UjtiLdXGMC)][CODE]

Others

  • Dual-Adapter[Chen et al.][arxiv 2024]Dual-Adapter: Training-free Dual Adaptation for Few-shot Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

Full-shot Approaches

  • NPOS[Tao et al.][ICLR 2023] NON-PARAMETRIC OUTLIER SYNTHESIS[PDF][CODE]

  • TOE [Park et al.][NeurIPS 2023]On the Powerfulness of Textual Outlier Exposure for Visual OoD Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • PT-OOD [Miyai et al.][arxiv 2023]CAN PRE-TRAINED NETWORKS DETECT FAMILIAR OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DATA?[PDF][CODE]

Evaluation & Application

CV

Image Classification

  • OpenOOD v1.5[Zhang et al.][NeurIPS 2023]OpenOOD v1.5: Enhanced Benchmark for Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • MOL[Wu et al.][CVPR 2023]Meta OOD Learning For Continuously Adaptive OOD Detection[PDF]

  • NINCO[Bitterwolf et al.][ICML 2023]In or Out? Fixing ImageNet Out-of-Distribution Detection Evaluation[PDF][CODE]

  • OpenOOD[Yang et al.][NeruIPS 2022]OpenOOD: Benchmarking Generalized Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

Semantic Segmentation

  • ...[ Shojaei et al.][ECCV 2024]Uncertainty Estimation and Out-of-Distribution Detection for LiDAR Scene Semantic Segmentation[PDF]

  • DOoD[ Galesso et al.][ECCV 2024]Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution Detection on Road Scenes and Beyond[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[ Ancha et al.][ICRA 2024]Deep Evidential Uncertainty Estimation for Semantic Segmentation under OOD Obstacles[PDF][CODE]

  • ATTA[Gao et al.][NeurIPS 2023]ATTA: Anomaly-aware Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Segmentation[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Hendrycks et al.][ICML 2022]Scaling Out-of-Distribution Detection for Real-World Settings[PDF]

  • SegmentMeIfYouCan[Chan et al.][NeurIPS 2021]SegmentMeIfYouCan: A Benchmark for Anomaly Segmentation[PDF]

  • Fishyscapes Benchmark[Blum et al.][arxiv 2019]The Fishyscapes Benchmark: Measuring Blind Spots in Semantic Segmentation[PDF]

Object Detection

  • mmood3d[Kösel et al.][IV 2024]Revisiting Out-of-Distribution Detection in LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • Proto-OOD[Chen et al.][arxiv 2024]Proto-OOD: Enhancing OOD Object Detection with Prototype Feature Similarity[PDF]

  • Situation Monitor[Syed et al.][CVPR 2024]Situation Monitor: Diversity-Driven Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection using Budding Ensemble Architecture for Object Detection[PDF]

  • RONIN[Nguyen et al.][arxiv 2024]Zero-Shot Object-Level Out-of-Distribution Detection with Context-Aware Inpainting[PDF]

  • SAFE[Wilson et al.][CVPR 2023]SAFE: Sensitivity-aware Features for Out-of-distribution Object Detection[PDF]

  • SIREN[Du et al.][NuerIPS 2022]SIREN: Shaping Representations for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Objects[PDF][CODE]

3D Object Detection

  • ...[Kösel et al.][arxiv 2024]Revisiting Out-of-Distribution Detection in LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection[PDF]

Autonomous Driving

  • ...[Guo et al.][arxiv 2024]Building Real-time Awareness of Out-of-distribution in Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles[PDF]

  • ...[Mao et al.][ICRA 2024]Language-Enhanced Latent Representations for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Autonomous Driving[PDF]

Medical Image Analysis

  • OpenMIBOOD[Gutbrod et al.][arxiv 2025]OpenMIBOOD: Open Medical Imaging Benchmarks for Out-Of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Liu et al.][MICCAI 2024]Mitral Regurgitation Recognition based on Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection with Residual Diffusion Amplification[PDF]

  • ...[Oh et al.][arxiv 2024]Are We Ready for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Digital Pathology[PDF]

  • EndoOOD[Tan et al.][arxiv 2024]EndoOOD: Uncertainty-aware Out-of-distribution Detection in Capsule Endoscopy Diagnosis[PDF]

  • ...[Chen et al.][ICASSP 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection for Learning-Based Chest X-Ray Diagnosis[PDF]

Human Action Recognition

  • Skeleton-OOD[Xu et al.][arxiv 2024]Skeleton-OOD: An End-to-End Skeleton-Based Model for Robust Out-of-Distribution Human Action Detection[PDF]

  • ...[Sim et al.][ECAI 2023]A Simple Debiasing Framework for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Human Action Recognition[PDF][CODE]

  • ...[Mandal et al.][CVPR 2019]Out-of-distribution detection for generalized zero-shot action recognition[PDF]

Solar Image Analysis

  • ...[Giger et al.][Space Weather 2023]Unsupervised Anomaly Detection With Variational Autoencoders Applied to Full-Disk Solar Images [PDF]
  • ...[Dan et al.][ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst 2024]Interpretable Latent Space for Meteorological Out-of-Distribution Detection via Weak Supervision[PDF]

Facial Expression Recognition

  • Open-Set-FER[Zhang et al.][AAAI 2024]Open-Set Facial Expression Recognition[PDF]/[CODE]

Facial Authentication

  • FOOD[Kahya et al.][ICIP 2024]FOOD: Facial Authentication and Out-of-Distribution Detection with Short-Range FMCW Radar[PDF]

Earth Observation Imagery

  • ...[Bellier et al.][CVPRw 2024]Detecting Out-Of-Distribution Earth Observation Images with Diffusion Models

NLP

Survey

  • ...[Liu et al.][arxiv 2025]A Survey on Transformer Context Extension: Approaches and Evaluation[PDF]
  • ...[Xu et al.][arxiv 2024]Large Language Models for Anomaly and Out-of-Distribution Detection:A Survey[PDF]
  • ...[Lang et al.][TMLR 2023]A Survey on Out-of-Distribution Detection in NLP[PDF]

Methods

  • ...[Akbari et al.][ICWR 2025]A Hybrid Architecture for Out of Domain Intent Detection and Intent Discovery[[PDF](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11006168)]

  • AHM [Constantinou et al.][arxiv 2024]Out-of-Distribution Detection with Attention Head Masking for Multimodal Document Classification[PDF]

  • TV score [Wang et al.][NeurIPS 2024]Embedding Trajectory for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Mathematical Reasoning[PDF]

  • LLMOODratio [Xhang et al.][arxiv 2024]Your Finetuned Large Language Model is Already a Powerful Out-of-distribution Detector[PDF][CODE]

  • VI-OOD [Zhan et al.][COLING 2024]VI-OOD A Unified Representation Learning Framework for Textual Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • MILTOOD [Darrin et al.][AAAI 2024]Unsupervised Layer-Wise Score Aggregation for Textual OOD Detection[PDF]

  • VI-OOD[Zhan et al.][arxiv 2024]VI-OOD: A Unified Representation Learning Framework for Textual Out-of-distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • Spatial-aware Adapter[Gu et al.][EMNLP 2023]A Critical Analysis of Document Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • Closer-look[Zhan et al.][Coling 2022]A Closer Look at Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Intent Detection[PDF][CODE]

  • DCL[Zhan et al.][ACL 2021]Out-of-scope intent detection with self-supervision and discriminative training [PDF][CODE]

  • OOD-Text[Arora et al.][EMNLP 2021]Types of Out-of-Distribution Texts and How to Detect Them[PDF][CODE]

Acoustic

  • ...[Wen et al.][BMVC 2024]Out-Of-Distribution Detection for Audio-visual Generalized Zero-Shot Learning A General Framework[PDF][CODE]

  • MEJEM[Hao et al.][arxiv 2024]Exploring Energy-Based Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Dialect Identification[PDF]

  • ...[Du et al.][arxiv 2024]Towards Out-of-Distribution Detection in Vocoder Recognition via Latent Feature Reconstruction[PDF]

  • ...[Bukhsh et al.][arxiv 2022]On Out-of-Distribution Detection for Audio with Deep Nearest Neighbors[PDF]

  • ...[Naranjo-Alcazar et al.][Sensors 2020]Open Set Audio Classification Using Autoencoders Trained on Few Data[PDF]

  • ...[Battaglino][IWAENC 2016]The Open-Set Problem in Acoustic Scene Classification[PDF]

Graph data

Survey & Benchmark

  • ...[Cai et al.][arxiv 2025]Out-of-Distribution Detection on Graphs A Survey[PDF]

  • UB-GOLD[Wang et al.][ICLR 2025]Unifying Unsupervised Graph-Level Anomaly Detection and Out-of-Distribution Detection A Benchmark[PDF]

  • ...[Ju et al.][arxiv 2024]A Survey of Graph Neural Networks in Real world: Imbalance, Noise, Privacy and OOD Challenges[PDF]

Methods

  • LLM-GOOD[Xu et al.][arxiv 2025]Few-Shot Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection with LLMs[PDF]

  • GOLD[Wang et al.][ICLR 2025]GOLD Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Implicit Adversarial Latent Generation[PDF]

  • SEGO[Hou et al.][AAAI 2024]Structural Entropy Guided Unsupervised Graph Out-Of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • HGOE[He et al.][ACMMM 2024]HGOE Hybrid External and Internal Graph Outlier Exposure for Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • GR-MOOD[Shen et al.][arxiv 2024]Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models[PDF]

  • GOODAT[Wang et al.][AAAI 2024]Towards Test-time Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection[PDF]

  • GOOD-D[Liu et al.][WSDM 2023]GOOD-D: On Unsupervised Graph Out-Of-Distribution Detection[PDF][CODE]

Reinforcement learning

  • DEXTER[Nasvytis et al.] [arxiv 2024]Rethinking Out-of-Distribution Detection for Reinforcement[PDF] Learning: Advancing Methods for Evaluation and Detection
  • AlberDICE[Matsunaga et al.][NuerIPS 2023]AlberDICE: Addressing Out-Of-Distribution Joint Actions in Offline Multi-Agent RL via Alternating Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation[PDF]

Others

  • SecDOOD[Li et al.][arxiv 2025]Secure On-Device Video OOD Detection Without Backpropagation[PDF]

  • TS-OOD[Gungor et al.][arxiv 2025]TS-OOD: Evaluating Time-Series Out-of-Distribution Detection and Prospective Directions for Progress[PDF]

  • ...[Impiö et al.][EUSIPCO 2024]Improving Taxonomic Image-based Out-of-distribution Detection With DNA Barcodes[PDF]

  • ...[Terres-Escudero et al.][arxiv 2024]Forward-Forward Learning achieves Highly Selective Latent Representations for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Fully Spiking Neural Networks[PDF]

  • ...[Zhou et al.][NeurIPSw 2024]**Evaluating Sparse Galaxy Simulations via Out-of-Distribution Detection and Amortized Bayesian Model **[PDF]

Survey

  • VLM Survey [Zhang et al.][IJCV 2024]Generalized Out-of-Distribution Detection and Beyond in Vision Language Model Era: A Survey[PDF]

  • LLM Survey [Xu et al.][ACL 2024]Large Language Models for Anomaly and Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey[PDF]

  • ... [Yang et al.][IJCV 2024]Generalized out-of-distribution detection: A survey[PDF]

  • ... [Lang et al.][TMLR 2023]A Survey on Out-of-Distribution Detection in NLP[PDF]

  • ... [Salehi et al.][TMLR 2022]A unified survey on anomaly, novelty, open-set, and out-of-distribution detection: Solutions and future challenges[PDF]

  • ... [Cui et al.][Electronics 2022]Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection based on deep learning: A review[PDF]

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