High Uncertainty Value
High uncertainty value in machine learning focuses on accurately quantifying and managing uncertainty in model predictions, aiming to improve reliability and trustworthiness, particularly in high-stakes applications. Current research emphasizes disentangling different sources of uncertainty (aleatoric and epistemic), developing robust model architectures (like Bayesian neural networks and ensembles) and uncertainty quantification metrics (e.g., calibration error, AUSE), and integrating uncertainty awareness into decision-making processes. This work is crucial for building safer and more reliable AI systems across diverse fields, from autonomous driving and medical diagnosis to robotics and scientific modeling, by enabling more informed and cautious actions based on the confidence of predictions.
Papers
Uncertainty-guided annotation enhances segmentation with the human-in-the-loop
Nadieh Khalili, Joey Spronck, Francesco Ciompi, Jeroen van der Laak, Geert Litjens
A CBF-Adaptive Control Architecture for Visual Navigation for UAV in the Presence of Uncertainties
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Akshit Saradagi, Sumeet Satpute, George Nikolakopoulos