Where to Measure: Epistemic Uncertainty-Based Sensor Placement with ConvCNPs
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| author | Eksen, Feyza Oehmcke, Stefan Lüdtke, Stefan |
| author_facet | Eksen, Feyza Oehmcke, Stefan Lüdtke, Stefan |
| contents | Accurate sensor placement is critical for modeling spatio-temporal systems such as environmental and climate processes. Neural Processes (NPs), particularly Convolutional Conditional Neural Processes (ConvCNPs), provide scalable probabilistic models with uncertainty estimates, making them well-suited for data-driven sensor placement. However, existing approaches rely on total predictive uncertainty, which conflates epistemic and aleatoric components, that may lead to suboptimal sensor selection in ambiguous regions. To address this, we propose expected reduction in epistemic uncertainty as a new acquisition function for sensor placement. To enable this, we extend ConvCNPs with a Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) output head for epistemic uncertainty estimation. Preliminary results suggest that epistemic uncertainty driven sensor placement more effectively reduces model error than approaches based on overall uncertainty. |
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| spellingShingle | Where to Measure: Epistemic Uncertainty-Based Sensor Placement with ConvCNPs Eksen, Feyza Oehmcke, Stefan Lüdtke, Stefan Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Accurate sensor placement is critical for modeling spatio-temporal systems such as environmental and climate processes. Neural Processes (NPs), particularly Convolutional Conditional Neural Processes (ConvCNPs), provide scalable probabilistic models with uncertainty estimates, making them well-suited for data-driven sensor placement. However, existing approaches rely on total predictive uncertainty, which conflates epistemic and aleatoric components, that may lead to suboptimal sensor selection in ambiguous regions. To address this, we propose expected reduction in epistemic uncertainty as a new acquisition function for sensor placement. To enable this, we extend ConvCNPs with a Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) output head for epistemic uncertainty estimation. Preliminary results suggest that epistemic uncertainty driven sensor placement more effectively reduces model error than approaches based on overall uncertainty. |
| title | Where to Measure: Epistemic Uncertainty-Based Sensor Placement with ConvCNPs |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22567 |