arXiv Machine Learning

Optimizable Model Averaging for Ensembling Heterogeneous Model Outputs

Optimizable Model Averaging (OMA) is a black‑box method that assigns nonnegative weights to each candidate model’s predictive probabilities, keeping all model parameters frozen. By minimizing regularized predictive entropy, OMA learns a single scalar coefficient per model to average outputs from heterogeneous architectures. The authors show that appropriate regularization reduces expected calibration error and improves the trade‑off between performance and calibration compared to simple output averaging.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Diversity is the Strength of the AI Crowd

Top AI forecasting systems are approaching superforecaster-level accuracy on future world events, but still rely primarily on off-the-shelf LLMs combined with forecasting-specific context gathering and scaffolding. We study how to improve this recipe through ensembling: given a fixed number of samples, which off-the-shelf model forecasts should be combined to maximize accuracy?

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

CORE-STACK+: Meta-Learning for Deep Stacked Generalization

CORE-STACK+ is a new meta‑learning framework for deep stacked generalization that tackles two key problems in heterogeneous vision ensembles: prediction‑space multicollinearity and calibration collapse. It introduces a four‑step preconditioning pipeline—kernelized redundancy filtering, a lightweight differentiable meta‑feature gate, a spectrum‑adaptive ridge penalty, and a Laplace‑approximate Bayesian blender—to jointly improve conditioning and calibration. Across six vision benchmarks, CORE‑STACK+ boosts accuracy, reduces model count and inference cost, and significantly lowers expected calibration error compared to existing methods.

By Noor Islam S. Mohammad
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Learning to Evaluate: Cost-Effective Model Evaluation on Unlabeled Data with Meta-Learning

arXiv:2605. 23595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of machine learning has led to an unprecedented expansion of model ecosystems, making it increasingly difficult to assess the reliability of newly released models on unseen and unlabeled data.

By Trinh Pham, Viet Huynh, Hongzhi Yin, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thanh Tam Nguyen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

Efficient Bayesian Deep Ensembles via Analytic Predictive Inference

We introduce an efficient Bayesian deep ensemble method for predictive regression designed to enhance interpretability while maintaining competitive predictive performance and computational efficiency. Our method combines the statistical rigor of Bayesian inference with the scalability of deep ensembles, providing calibrated uncertainty estimates that enable its use not only for standalone prediction but also as a component within broader learning systems.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Diversity is the Strength of the AI Crowd

arXiv:2606. 29661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Top AI forecasting systems are approaching superforecaster-level accuracy on future world events, but still rely primarily on off-the-shelf LLMs combined with forecasting-specific context gathering and scaffolding.

By Matthew Aitchison, Scott Jeen, Toby Shevlane, Ben Day