Challenge: Existing methods for detecting out-of-distribution instances are empirical . state-of the-art methods for OOD detection are suboptimal since they only estimate in-distance density pout(x).
Approach: They propose a method that measures the “OOD-ness” of a test case x through the likelihood ratio between out-distribution mathcal Pout and in-division mathcal Pin.
Outcome: The proposed method improves existing methods on popular benchmarks and establishes a new SOTA on popular NLP benchmarks.

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