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CSI: Novelty Detection via Contrastive Learning on Distributionally Shifted Instances

16 Jul 2020NeurIPS 2020 12arXiv:2007.08176archive 2025-07-28

Jihoon Tack, Sangwoo Mo, Jongheon Jeong, Jinwoo Shin

Novelty detection, i.e., identifying whether a given sample is drawn from outside the training distribution, is essential for reliable machine learning. To this end, there have been many attempts at learning a representation well-suited for novelty detection and designing a score based on such representation. In this paper, we propose a simple, yet effective method named contrasting shifted instances (CSI), inspired by the recent success on contrastive learning of visual representations. Specifically, in addition to contrasting a given sample with other instances as in conventional contrastive learning methods, our training scheme contrasts the sample with distributionally-shifted augmentations of itself. Based on this, we propose a new detection score that is specific to the proposed training scheme. Our experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method under various novelty detection scenarios, including unlabeled one-class, unlabeled multi-class and labeled multi-class settings, with various image benchmark datasets. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/alinlab/CSI.

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Anomaly DetectionContrastive LearningNovelty DetectionOut-of-Distribution DetectionRepresentation LearningUnsupervised Anomaly Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled ImageNet-30 vs Flowers-102 CSI Network ResNet-18 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled ImageNet-30 vs Flowers-102 CSI ROC-AUC 94.7 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled CIFAR-10 vs LSUN (Fix) CSI Network ResNet-18 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled CIFAR-10 vs LSUN (Fix) CSI ROC-AUC 90.3 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled ImageNet-30 vs CUB-200 CSI Network ResNet-18 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection on Unlabeled ImageNet-30 vs CUB-200 CSI ROC-AUC 71.5 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection One-class CIFAR-10 CSI AUROC 94.3 #12 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection One-class CIFAR-100 CSI AUROC 89.6 #6 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection One-class ImageNet-30 CSI AUROC 91.6 #4 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Unlabeled CIFAR-10 vs CIFAR-100 CSI AUROC 89.3 #7 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection Unlabeled CIFAR-10 vs CIFAR-100 CSI Network ResNet-18 #7 of 13 Archive leaderboard report

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