StableTTA: Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation that Improves Model Accuracy on ImageNet1K to 96%

arXiv:2604.04552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensemble methods are widely used to improve predictive performance, but their effectiveness often comes at the cost of increased memory usage and computational complexity. In this paper, we identify a conflict in aggregation strategies that negatively impacts prediction stability. We propose StableTTA, a training-free method to improve aggregation stability and efficiency. Empirical results on ImageNet-1K show gains of 10.93--32.82\% in top-1 accuracy, with 33 models achieving over 95\% accuracy and several surpassing 96\%. Notably, StableTTA allows lightweight architectures to outperform ViT by 11.75\% in top-1 accuracy while using less than 5\% of parameters and reducing computational cost by approximately 89.1\% (in GFLOPs), enabling high-accuracy inference on resource-constrained devices.