Exploring Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Construction of Prediction Intervals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12953v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 02:58:20 GMT
• Title: Exploring Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Construction of Prediction Intervals
• Authors: Yuandu Lai, Yucheng Shi, Yahong Han, Yunfeng Shao, Meiyu Qi, Bingshuai Li
• Abstract summary: We explore the uncertainty in deep learning to construct prediction intervals. We design a special loss function, which enables us to learn uncertainty without uncertainty label. Our method correlates the construction of prediction intervals with the uncertainty estimation.
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• Abstract: Deep learning has achieved impressive performance on many tasks in recent years. However, it has been found that it is still not enough for deep neural networks to provide only point estimates. For high-risk tasks, we need to assess the reliability of the model predictions. This requires us to quantify the uncertainty of model prediction and construct prediction intervals. In this paper, We explore the uncertainty in deep learning to construct the prediction intervals. In general, We comprehensively consider two categories of uncertainties: aleatory uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty. We design a special loss function, which enables us to learn uncertainty without uncertainty label. We only need to supervise the learning of regression task. We learn the aleatory uncertainty implicitly from the loss function. And that epistemic uncertainty is accounted for in ensembled form. Our method correlates the construction of prediction intervals with the uncertainty estimation. Impressive results on some publicly available datasets show that the performance of our method is competitive with other state-of-the-art methods.

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