Beyond the Norms: Detecting Prediction Errors in Regression Models

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العنوان: Beyond the Norms: Detecting Prediction Errors in Regression Models
المؤلفون: Altieri, Andres, Romanelli, Marco, Pichler, Georg, Alberge, Florence, Piantanida, Pablo
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
الوصف: This paper tackles the challenge of detecting unreliable behavior in regression algorithms, which may arise from intrinsic variability (e.g., aleatoric uncertainty) or modeling errors (e.g., model uncertainty). First, we formally introduce the notion of unreliability in regression, i.e., when the output of the regressor exceeds a specified discrepancy (or error). Then, using powerful tools for probabilistic modeling, we estimate the discrepancy density, and we measure its statistical diversity using our proposed metric for statistical dissimilarity. In turn, this allows us to derive a data-driven score that expresses the uncertainty of the regression outcome. We show empirical improvements in error detection for multiple regression tasks, consistently outperforming popular baseline approaches, and contributing to the broader field of uncertainty quantification and safe machine learning systems. Our code is available at https://zenodo.org/records/11281964Test.
Comment: To appear as spotlight at ICML 2024. 36 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06968Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2406.06968
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv