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Prior and Posterior Networks: A Survey on Evidential Deep Learning Methods For Uncertainty Estimation

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arxiv 2110.03051 v3 pith:5JLXOT6W submitted 2021-10-06 cs.LG cs.AIstat.ML

classification cs.LGcs.AIstat.ML
keywords deepdistributionssurveytheyuncertaintyestimationevidentialexisting
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Popular approaches for quantifying predictive uncertainty in deep neural networks often involve distributions over weights or multiple models, for instance via Markov Chain sampling, ensembling, or Monte Carlo dropout. These techniques usually incur overhead by having to train multiple model instances or do not produce very diverse predictions. This comprehensive and extensive survey aims to familiarize the reader with an alternative class of models based on the concept of Evidential Deep Learning: For unfamiliar data, they aim to admit "what they don't know", and fall back onto a prior belief. Furthermore, they allow uncertainty estimation in a single model and forward pass by parameterizing distributions over distributions. This survey recapitulates existing works, focusing on the implementation in a classification setting, before surveying the application of the same paradigm to regression. We also reflect on the strengths and weaknesses compared to other existing methods and provide the most fundamental derivations using a unified notation to aid future research.

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