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Bayesian mixed-prior score improves rejecting unknown classes in recognition

Mixed-Prior Decision Risk for Open-Set Recognition

Abstract: In open-set recognition (OSR), a probe must either be identified as one of the known gallery classes or rejected as unknown, so three error types coexist: false acceptance, false rejection, and misidentification. An uncertainty score for selective recognition should rank probes by the risk of the decision the system has made. Bayesian gallery-aware models such as Holistic Uncertainty Estimation (HolUE) summarize the posterior over known and unknown classes by Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence components and map them to an uncertainty score with a supervised nonlinear calibrator. We show that the KL summary is not generally monotone in decision risk: linear fusion of the KL components tuned on validation data yields negative filtering quality on several benchmarks. We propose MPRisk, a mixed-prior posterior decision-risk score that keeps the same Bayesian posterior but directly scores the error events associated with the selected decision: false-acceptance, misidentification, and false-rejection risks, plus a non-specificity penalty for rejections, enabled by modeling unknown identities as a continuous component. Four nonnegative weights tuned on a validation set suffice for ranking; no nonlinear supervised model is required. Across nine image, audio, and text benchmarks, MPRisk achieves the best or tied-best Prediction Rejection Ratio at every operating point on the image and audio benchmarks and on most text operating points, with bootstrap-confirmed gains over HolUE on five benchmarks (up to $+0.19$ PRR) at comparable or lower runtime.

Mon 28 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
In recognition tasks, a system must decide if something is known or unknown, which creates three kinds of mistakes: saying unknown things are known, rejecting known things, or mixing up known classes. The authors show that existing Bayesian methods use a complex measure that doesn’t always reliably reflect these mistakes. They propose a new scoring method called MPRisk that directly scores the risk of these three error types plus a penalty for rejecting something unspecific. MPRisk is simpler to tune and performs better or equally well across many image, audio, and text benchmarks compared to a prior method.
Open → 2609.35043v1