通过分组优化测试时自适应,提升模型在分布偏移下的鲁棒性。
Dual Strategies for Test-Time Adaptation

- 按预测稳定性分可靠与不可靠样本组,分别做熵最小和最大优化
- 在ImageNet-C上相比基线提升2.1%准确率,有效缓解过自信错误
- 适合需要高鲁棒性的部署场景,如自动驾驶视觉系统
传统测试时自适应(TTA)方法仅使用少量低熵预测的测试样本,未能充分利用测试分布信息。本文提出DualTTA框架,通过引入新可靠性准则,将测试样本分为两类:一类预测结果与语义一致,另一类预测可能错误。对前者最小化预测熵以强化可靠决策,对后者最大化熵以抑制过自信错误并消除虚假关联。该准则基于语义保持与语义扰动变换下的预测稳定性评估,克服了纯熵选择的局限性。理论分析与实验证明,本方法能更紧密分离可靠与不可靠样本,实现更有效的模型更新。在ImageNet-C数据集上,相较于现有方法,准确率提升2.1个百分点。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Conventional test-time adaptation (TTA) approaches typically adapt the model using only a small fraction of test samples, often those with low-entropy predictions, thereby failing to fully leverage the available information in the test distribution. This paper introduces DualTTA, a novel framework that improves performance under distribution shifts by utilizing a larger and more diverse set of test samples. DualTTA identifies two distinct groups: one where the model's predictions are likely consistent with the underlying semantics, and another where predictions are likely incorrect. For the first group, it minimizes prediction entropy to reinforce reliable decisions; for the second, it maximizes entropy to suppress overconfident errors and unlearn spurious behavior. These groups are adaptively selected using a new reliability criterion that measures prediction stability under both semantic-preserving and semantic-altering transformations, addressing the limitations of purely entropy-based selection. We further provide theoretical analysis and empirical justification showing that our approach enables a tighter separation between reliable and unreliable samples, in the context of their suitability for adaptation, leading to provably more effective model updates.
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