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Hauptverfasser: Chaudhuri, Kamalika, Lopez-Paz, David
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01202
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author Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Lopez-Paz, David
author_facet Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Lopez-Paz, David
contents To build robust, fair, and safe AI systems, we would like our classifiers to say ``I don't know'' when facing test examples that are difficult or fall outside of the training classes.The ubiquitous strategy to predict under uncertainty is the simplistic \emph{reject-or-classify} rule: abstain from prediction if epistemic uncertainty is high, classify otherwise.Unfortunately, this recipe does not allow different sources of uncertainty to communicate with each other, produces miscalibrated predictions, and it does not allow to correct for misspecifications in our uncertainty estimates. To address these three issues, we introduce \emph{unified uncertainty calibration (U2C)}, a holistic framework to combine aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. U2C enables a clean learning-theoretical analysis of uncertainty estimation, and outperforms reject-or-classify across a variety of ImageNet benchmarks. Our code is available at: https://github.com/facebookresearch/UnifiedUncertaintyCalibration
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spellingShingle Unified Uncertainty Calibration
Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Lopez-Paz, David
Machine Learning
To build robust, fair, and safe AI systems, we would like our classifiers to say ``I don't know'' when facing test examples that are difficult or fall outside of the training classes.The ubiquitous strategy to predict under uncertainty is the simplistic \emph{reject-or-classify} rule: abstain from prediction if epistemic uncertainty is high, classify otherwise.Unfortunately, this recipe does not allow different sources of uncertainty to communicate with each other, produces miscalibrated predictions, and it does not allow to correct for misspecifications in our uncertainty estimates. To address these three issues, we introduce \emph{unified uncertainty calibration (U2C)}, a holistic framework to combine aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. U2C enables a clean learning-theoretical analysis of uncertainty estimation, and outperforms reject-or-classify across a variety of ImageNet benchmarks. Our code is available at: https://github.com/facebookresearch/UnifiedUncertaintyCalibration
title Unified Uncertainty Calibration
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01202