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How do you detect out-of-distribution inputs, and why does it matter for safe deployment?

Models hand back confident answers on inputs unlike anything they trained on, which is how silent production failures happen. The signal is knowing why raw softmax confidence lies and which detectors actually separate in- from out-of-distribution.

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Models hand back confident answers on inputs unlike anything they trained on, which is how silent production failures happen. The signal is knowing why raw softmax confidence lies and which detectors actually separate in- from out-of-distribution.

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