Real-world observational data often contain heterogeneous subpopulations that deviate from global patterns, posing challenges for traditional models.
DynaSubVAE is introduced as a framework that integrates representation learning and adaptive out-of-domain (OOD) detection.
The model dynamically updates its latent structure to capture new trends in the data, unlike static approaches.
DynaSubVAE utilizes a novel non-parametric clustering mechanism inspired by Gaussian Mixture Models to identify and model latent subgroups based on embedding similarity.
Extensive experiments demonstrate that DynaSubVAE performs well in near-OOD and far-OOD detection, especially excelling in class-OOD scenarios.
The dynamic subgrouping mechanism of DynaSubVAE outperforms traditional clustering methods like GMM and KMeans++ in terms of OOD accuracy and regret precision.