Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying deep models safely in open-world environments.
A salient gradient phenomenon has been observed during inference on a model trained only with In-Distribution (ID) data.
Based on this observation, a technique has been proposed to short-circuit feature coordinates exploited by spurious gradients in OOD samples while preserving ID classification.
Experiments on OOD benchmarks demonstrate significant improvements with this approach, which is lightweight and integrates seamlessly into the standard inference pipeline.