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arxiv: 2604.23729 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-26 · 💻 cs.CV

DynProto: Dynamic Prototype Evolution for Out-of-Distribution Detection

Yanqi Wu , Xinhua Lu , Runhe Lai , Qichao Chen , Jia-Xin Zhuang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruixuan Wang This is my paper

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keywords out-of-distribution detectiondynamic prototypestest-time learningfeature clusteringvision modelsprototype refinementin-distribution data
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The pith

DynProto dynamically evolves OOD prototypes from clustered test-time patterns using only in-distribution data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper aims to improve out-of-distribution detection in vision models by learning prototypes for potential OOD samples on the fly during testing, without relying on any pre-defined set of OOD labels from large corpora. This approach matters because many real-world OOD samples lie outside fixed label sets, causing prior methods to fail. It builds on the observation that OOD samples predicted as the same ID class tend to cluster together in feature space, allowing easy-to-detect OOD to serve as anchors for identifying harder ones. Two modules handle this: one caches confused OOD patterns per ID class, and the other clusters and refines them into representative prototypes for similarity-based detection.

Core claim

DynProto learns OOD prototypes dynamically during testing using only ID information. Inspired by OOD samples predicted as the same ID class clustering in feature space, it uses easy OOD as anchors for harder counterparts. The Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module caches OOD patterns easily confused with each ID class, while the Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module clusters these within each cache and aggregates into prototypes. Measuring similarity to ID and these dynamic OOD prototypes enables accurate detection, with significant gains like reducing FPR95 by 11.60% on ImageNet OOD benchmark.

What carries the argument

The dynamic prototype evolution via the Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module, which caches easily confused OOD patterns per ID class during testing, and the Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module, which clusters within caches and aggregates into representative OOD prototypes.

If this is right

  • Outperforms prior methods on multiple benchmarks, notably reducing FPR95 by 11.60% and improving AUROC by 4.70% on ImageNet OOD.
  • Operates without predefined OOD label sets, handling real-world OOD outside fixed categories.
  • Remains architecture-agnostic, integrable with various backbones and vision models.
  • Relies solely on in-distribution information during the testing phase for prototype learning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the clustering of same-predicted-class OOD holds across models, this could enable fully unsupervised OOD adaptation in new domains.
  • The method might generalize to non-vision tasks where feature clustering of misclassified outliers occurs.
  • Combining with existing VLM methods could further boost performance by using dynamic prototypes as supplements to fixed labels.

Load-bearing premise

That out-of-distribution samples which get predicted as the same in-distribution class will form clusters in the feature space that can be captured and refined into useful prototypes.

What would settle it

An experiment showing that OOD samples misclassified to the same ID class do not cluster meaningfully in feature space, or that disabling the clustering refinement step removes all performance improvements over baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.23729 by Jia-Xin Zhuang, Qichao Chen, Ruixuan Wang, Runhe Lai, Wei-Shi Zheng, Xinhua Lu, Yanqi Wu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of (a) methods using external corpora, with view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of DynProto. The Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module stores candidate OOD features that are predicted to each ID view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FPR95 of DynProto integrated with various baselines on view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Sensitivity analysis of hyper-parameters. Each dashed line represents performance of the baseline NegLabel [ view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The t-SNE visualization of the constructed OOD proto view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Distribution of per-class similarity difference between view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Distribution of per-class similarity difference between OOD-OOD and OOD-ID pairs on ResNet50. view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Distribution of per-class similarity difference between OOD-OOD and OOD-ID pairs on CLIP-B/16. view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The t-SNE visualization of the constructed OOD prototypes on ResNet50. view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The t-SNE visualization of the constructed OOD prototypes on CLIP-B/16. view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The visualization of cached samples on ResNet50. view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The visualization of cached samples on CLIP-B/16. view at source ↗
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Recent studies show that using potential out-of-distribution (OOD) labels from large corpora as auxiliary information can improve OOD detection in vision-language models (VLMs). However, these methods often fail when real-world OOD samples fall outside the predefined OOD label set. To address this limitation, we propose DynProto, a novel approach that learns OOD prototypes dynamically during testing using only in-distribution (ID) information. DynProto is inspired by a key observation: OOD samples predicted as the same ID class tend to cluster in the feature space. With this insight, we leverage easy-to-detect OOD samples as ``anchors'' to find their harder-to-detect, similar counterparts. To this end, DynProto introduces two modules: \textbf{Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module} caches OOD patterns that are easily confused with each ID class during testing, and \textbf{Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module} subsequently clusters these patterns within each cache and aggregates them into representative OOD prototypes. By measuring similarity to ID and dynamic OOD prototypes, DynProto enables accurate OOD detection. DynProto significantly outperforms prior methods across multiple benchmarks. On ImageNet OOD benchmark, DynProto reduces FPR95 by 11.60\% and improves AUROC by 4.70\%. Moreover, the framework is architecture-agnostic and can be integrated into various backbones.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes DynProto for OOD detection in vision-language models. It dynamically learns OOD prototypes at test time using only ID information, based on the observation that OOD samples predicted as the same ID class cluster in feature space. Easy-to-detect OOD samples act as anchors for harder ones via two modules: Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing (caching patterns confused with each ID class) and Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement (clustering within caches and aggregating into representative prototypes). Similarity to ID and dynamic OOD prototypes enables detection, with reported gains of 11.60% FPR95 reduction and 4.70% AUROC improvement on the ImageNet OOD benchmark. The method is architecture-agnostic.

Significance. If the clustering observation is verified and the anchor selection proves robust, DynProto would address a key limitation of prior VLM-based OOD methods that depend on fixed auxiliary OOD label sets. The test-time dynamic evolution using only ID data and the architecture-agnostic design represent practical strengths for real-world deployment where OOD samples lie outside predefined sets.

major comments (2)
  1. [Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module and Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module] The Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module and Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module: The entire approach is load-bearing on the unverified claim that OOD samples predicted as the same ID class cluster in feature space, with easy OOD serving as anchors. No visualizations, quantitative clustering metrics, or ablations are provided to confirm this holds across benchmarks; at test time the initial selection of easy OOD (implicitly confidence-based) has no ground truth and risks contaminating prototypes with misclassified low-confidence ID samples, directly determining whether the 11.60% FPR95 reduction follows from the proposed mechanism.
  2. [Experimental evaluation section] Experimental evaluation section: Quantitative claims (e.g., 11.60% FPR95 and 4.70% AUROC gains on ImageNet OOD) are presented without error bars, multiple random seeds, statistical significance tests, or detailed ablations isolating the contribution of each module and the dynamic prototype update. This leaves open whether the gains are reproducible or sensitive to the unshown implementation details of anchor selection and clustering.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the method uses 'only in-distribution (ID) information' yet operates at test time on unlabeled samples; the manuscript should explicitly clarify the boundary between ID-only training and test-time use of unlabeled data to avoid reader confusion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and insightful comments on our manuscript. We have carefully reviewed the major concerns and provide detailed point-by-point responses below. We propose targeted revisions to address the issues raised, which we believe will strengthen the empirical support and reproducibility of our work.

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  1. Referee: [Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module and Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module] The entire approach is load-bearing on the unverified claim that OOD samples predicted as the same ID class cluster in feature space, with easy OOD serving as anchors. No visualizations, quantitative clustering metrics, or ablations are provided to confirm this holds across benchmarks; at test time the initial selection of easy OOD (implicitly confidence-based) has no ground truth and risks contaminating prototypes with misclassified low-confidence ID samples, directly determining whether the 11.60% FPR95 reduction follows from the proposed mechanism.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the clustering observation is central to DynProto and agree that stronger empirical validation is warranted. In the revised manuscript, we will include t-SNE visualizations of feature embeddings demonstrating OOD samples clustering according to their predicted ID class on multiple benchmarks. We will also report quantitative clustering metrics (e.g., silhouette score and Davies-Bouldin index) to verify the tightness of these clusters. To address the selection of easy OOD samples and potential contamination risk, we will add an ablation study varying the confidence threshold used for caching, along with an analysis showing how the subsequent fine-grained clustering step aggregates patterns into robust prototypes that mitigate the impact of any misclassified ID samples. These additions will directly link the observed gains to the proposed mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experimental evaluation section] Experimental evaluation section: Quantitative claims (e.g., 11.60% FPR95 and 4.70% AUROC gains on ImageNet OOD) are presented without error bars, multiple random seeds, statistical significance tests, or detailed ablations isolating the contribution of each module and the dynamic prototype update. This leaves open whether the gains are reproducible or sensitive to the unshown implementation details of anchor selection and clustering.

    Authors: We agree that the experimental section would benefit from greater statistical rigor and transparency. In the revision, we will re-run all main experiments over at least five random seeds (accounting for any stochasticity in clustering or data ordering) and report means with standard deviations, including error bars in the result tables. We will also conduct statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-tests) against baselines to confirm the reported improvements. Additionally, we will expand the ablation section to isolate the individual contributions of the Coarse OOD Pattern Capturing Module, the Fine-grained OOD Pattern Refinement Module, and the dynamic prototype evolution, including sensitivity analysis on anchor selection and clustering parameters. These changes will demonstrate reproducibility and clarify the source of the performance gains. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's core derivation rests on an external empirical observation (OOD samples predicted as the same ID class tend to cluster) that motivates the two modules for dynamic prototype construction during test time. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential definitions are shown to reduce the claimed performance gains (e.g., FPR95 reduction on ImageNet OOD) to the inputs by construction. The approach is algorithmic and architecture-agnostic, with the observation treated as an independent starting point rather than a tautology derived from the method itself. No self-citation load-bearing steps, uniqueness theorems, or ansatz smuggling appear in the provided text, leaving the central claim self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on one domain assumption about feature-space clustering of misclassified OOD samples; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption OOD samples predicted as the same ID class tend to cluster in the feature space
    This observation directly motivates using easy OOD samples as anchors to locate harder counterparts.

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