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Geometrically Constrained Outlier Synthesis

Researchers introduce GCOS, a training-time regularization framework that improves deep neural networks' ability to detect out-of-distribution samples by synthesizing realistic outliers in feature space while respecting the geometric structure of in-distribution data. The method combines manifold-aware outlier generation with contrastive learning and extends to conformal inference for statistically valid uncertainty quantification.