arXiv:2607. 21773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a robust variant of the smart predict-then-optimize approach that accounts for prediction shifts due to disturbance in the covariate feature space.
By Aakil Caunhye, Xuefei Lu, Belen Martin-Barragan
arXiv:2606. 27269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliably quantifying predictive uncertainty is difficult for complex, high-dimensional, or misspecified models.
By Graham Gibson, John Tipton, Kellin Rumsey, Natalie Klein
arXiv:2608. 05995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty estimates are critical in safety-sensitive applications, where understanding the sources of predictive uncertainty is essential.
By Frieder Wizgall, Georg Tirpitz, Moritz Seiler, Kerstin Ritter, B\'alint Mucs\'anyi
arXiv:2605. 07565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study Bayesian Optimisation (BO) in settings where the objective function is influenced by uncontrollable environmental contexts governed by an unknown probability distribution.
By Tigran Ramazyan, Denis Derkach
arXiv:2609. 27930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a Bayesian nonparametric mixture of regression trees with a Dirichlet process prior over tree-parameter pairs, enabling data-driven selection of ensemble size and unifying CART, BART, random forests, and boosting.
By Subhasish Basak, Anik Roy, Sourabh Bhattacharya
arXiv:2606. 19569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for reliable decision-making in safety-critical applications in probabilistic machine learning.
By Sam Goring, Tom Kuipers, Nicola Paoletti, David S. Watson
arXiv:2608.29349v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Gaussian process (GP) regression with a single global GP (GP-glo) incurs cubic computational cost, limiting scalability to large datasets. Product-of-e...
By Yean Hoon Ong, Paolo Barucca, Wei Pan, Jun Wang
arXiv:2602. 04596v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayes-filtered transformers are transformers meta-learned on sequences from a prior predictive distribution to approximate the corresponding posterior predictive distribution.
By Sandra Fortini, Kenyon Ng, Sonia Petrone, Judith Rousseau, Susan Wei
arXiv:2602. 13362v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key challenge in probabilistic regression is ensuring that predictive distributions accurately reflect true empirical uncertainty.
By \'Ad\'am Jung, Domokos M. Kelen, Andr\'as A. Bencz\'ur
The paper introduces SME-BETEL, a semiparametric Bayesian method that merges score matching estimating equations with Bayesian exponentially tilted empirical likelihood to perform inference on models with intractable normalizing constants. SME-BETEL avoids evaluating these constants and eliminates the need for learning-rate calibration, while providing consistency, asymptotic normality, and a Bernstein‑von Mises theorem that guarantees asymptotically calibrated credible sets even under model misspecification. The authors extend the framework to mixed‑domain data, enabling robust inference for doubly‑intractable models such as spatial preferential sampling, and demonstrate its effectiveness through simulations and an ozone‑monitoring application.
By Jiongran Wang, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya
The paper introduces a ground‑truth framework for disentangling uncertainty into epistemic and aleatoric components using sample‑conditional pointwise posterior risk. It evaluates current methods, finding that Spectral‑normalized Neural Gaussian Processes and Variational Latent Gaussian Processes best recover the ground‑truth uncertainty, while most methods align more closely with posterior variance and miss predictor bias. The study also explores the entanglement of estimated uncertainties and the impact of modeling choices, providing practical guidance and releasing 13 semi‑synthetic datasets for further validation.
By Frieder Wizgall, Georg Tirpitz, Moritz Seiler, Kerstin Ritter, B\'alint Mucs\'anyi
arXiv:2410. 14843v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vanilla variational inference finds an optimal approximation to the Bayesian posterior distribution, but even the exact Bayesian posterior is often not meaningful under model misspecification.
By Jinlin Lai, Antonio Linero, Yuling Yao