Summary of Multivariate Bayesian Last Layer For Regression: Uncertainty Quantification and Disentanglement, by Han Wang et al.
Multivariate Bayesian Last Layer for Regression: Uncertainty Quantification and Disentanglement
by Han Wang, Eiji Kawasaki, Guillaume Damblin, Geoffrey Daniel
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces Bayesian Last Layer models for multivariate regression under heteroscedastic noise. It proposes an optimization algorithm for parameter learning in this setting. The model combines Bayesian modeling of the predictive distribution with neural networks for prior parameterization, allowing for uncertainty quantification with a single forward pass. This framework can disentangle aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty, enabling transfer to new data domains with uncertainty-aware capability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us make more accurate predictions by understanding how certain we are about those predictions. It’s like having a special tool that can figure out how much noise is in the data and separate it from the real signal. This tool can be used to make better decisions, especially when working with new or uncertain data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Regression
