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New OOD benchmark Fi-ImageNet-1k challenges AI models

Researchers have developed Fi-ImageNet-1k, a new dataset designed to challenge out-of-distribution (OOD) detection capabilities in AI models. This dataset is derived from ImageNet-1k validation images that were reannotated and found to not belong to any ImageNet-1k class. Expert human annotators, aided by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), vision-language models (VLMs), and reverse image search, identified images that could be assigned a specific class outside the original ImageNet-1k label space. The resulting Fi-ImageNet-1k contains 655 images across 522 classes and is significantly more difficult than existing OOD datasets, with current state-of-the-art methods failing to achieve a false positive rate below 51% at a 95% true positive rate. AI

IMPACT This benchmark will push the development of more robust out-of-distribution detection methods, crucial for safe AI deployment in real-world scenarios.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ruslan Rozumnyi, Mat\v{e}j Such\'anek, Tom\'a\v{s} Voj\'i\v{r}, Kl\'ara Janou\v{s}kov\'a, Ji\v{r}\'i Matas ·

    Fi-ImageNet-1k: An OOD Benchmark From the Inside of the ImageNet-1k Validation Set

    arXiv:2609.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection predicts whether a test image belongs to none of the predefined classes. To evaluate this task, benchmarks need images from outside the in-distribution (ID) data; typically, these are defined or c…