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most citedPractical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms

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stat.ML2020★ 3 cited

Exploring the Uncertainty Properties of Neural Networks' Implicit Priors in the Infinite-Width Limit

Ben Adlam, Jaehoon Lee, Lechao Xiao +2

Modern deep learning models have achieved great success in predictive accuracy for many data modalities. However, their application to many real-world tasks is restricted by poor u…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Combining Ensembles and Data Augmentation can Harm your Calibration

Yeming Wen, Ghassen Jerfel, Rafael Muller +4

Ensemble methods which average over multiple neural network predictions are a simple approach to improve a model's calibration and robustness. Similarly, data augmentation techniqu…

cs.LG2020★ 30 cited

Training independent subnetworks for robust prediction

Marton Havasi, Rodolphe Jenatton, Stanislav Fort +5

Recent approaches to efficiently ensemble neural networks have shown that strong robustness and uncertainty performance can be achieved with a negligible gain in parameters over th…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Empirical Frequentist Coverage of Deep Learning Uncertainty Quantification Procedures

Benjamin Kompa, Jasper Snoek, Andrew Beam

Uncertainty quantification for complex deep learning models is increasingly important as these techniques see growing use in high-stakes, real-world settings. Currently, the qualit…

eess.AS2020★ 20 cited

A Spectral Energy Distance for Parallel Speech Synthesis

Alexey A. Gritsenko, Tim Salimans, Rianne van den Berg +2

Speech synthesis is an important practical generative modeling problem that has seen great progress over the last few years, with likelihood-based autoregressive neural models now…

stat.ML2020★ 11 cited

Cold Posteriors and Aleatoric Uncertainty

Ben Adlam, Jasper Snoek, Samuel L. Smith

Recent work has observed that one can outperform exact inference in Bayesian neural networks by tuning the "temperature" of the posterior on a validation set (the "cold posterior"…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Revisiting One-vs-All Classifiers for Predictive Uncertainty and Out-of-Distribution Detection in Neural Networks

Shreyas Padhy, Zachary Nado, Jie Ren +3

Accurate estimation of predictive uncertainty in modern neural networks is critical to achieve well calibrated predictions and detect out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. The most pro…

cs.LG2020★ 32 cited

Hyperparameter Ensembles for Robustness and Uncertainty Quantification

Florian Wenzel, Jasper Snoek, Dustin Tran +1

Ensembles over neural network weights trained from different random initialization, known as deep ensembles, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and calibration. The recently introdu…

cs.LG2020★ 94 cited

Evaluating Prediction-Time Batch Normalization for Robustness under Covariate Shift

Zachary Nado, Shreyas Padhy, D. Sculley +3

Covariate shift has been shown to sharply degrade both predictive accuracy and the calibration of uncertainty estimates for deep learning models. This is worrying, because covariat…

cs.LG2020★ 33 cited

Efficient and Scalable Bayesian Neural Nets with Rank-1 Factors

Michael W. Dusenberry, Ghassen Jerfel, Yeming Wen +5

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) demonstrate promising success in improving the robustness and uncertainty quantification of modern deep learning. However, they generally struggle w…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Weighting Is Worth the Wait: Bayesian Optimization with Importance Sampling

Setareh Ariafar, Zelda Mariet, Ehsan Elhamifar +3

Many contemporary machine learning models require extensive tuning of hyperparameters to perform well. A variety of methods, such as Bayesian optimization, have been developed to a…

cs.LG2020★ 22 cited

The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks

Jakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling +7

Variational Bayesian Inference is a popular methodology for approximating posterior distributions over Bayesian neural network weights. Recent work developing this class of methods…

stat.ML2020★ 33 cited

How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really?

Florian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling +7

During the past five years the Bayesian deep learning community has developed increasingly accurate and efficient approximate inference procedures that allow for Bayesian inference…

cs.LG2020★ 35 cited

Hydra: Preserving Ensemble Diversity for Model Distillation

Linh Tran, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Kevin Roth +7

Ensembles of models have been empirically shown to improve predictive performance and to yield robust measures of uncertainty. However, they are expensive in computation and memory…