Questions tagged [epistemic-uncertainty]
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Do we need as much information to know if we can can answer a question as we need to actually answer the question?
I am reading The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, and in page 12 I see the following diagram.
The box on the right side of box 5 "Can the query be answered?" is located before box 6 and box 9 which are the processes…
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What are the leading methods to estimate Epistemic Uncertainty in Large Language Models?
Epistemic uncertainty is uncertainty that arises from a lack of knowledge, for instance in machine learning epistemic uncertainty can be caused by a lack of training data. Estimating epistemic uncertainty is important for useful AI systems, since it…
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Does MobileNet SSD v2 only capture aleatoric uncertainty (and so not the epistemic one)?
Regarding the MobileNet SSD v2 model, I was wondering to what extend it captures uncertainty of the predictions.
There are 2 types of uncertainty, data uncertainty (aleatoric) and model uncertainty (epistemic).
The model outputs bounding boxes with…
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Understanding the Intuition Behind Formulas in "Epistemic Neural Networks"
I've been reading the paper "Epistemic Neural Networks" by Ian Osband et al. (2023), and I'm having trouble grasping the main intuition behind some of the formulas presented. The paper states the usefulness of joint predictions in estimating…
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