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arXiv Machine Learning By Tanmoy Mukherjee, Marius Kloft, Pierre Marquis, Zied Bouraoui

Structurally Separated Uncertainty in Supervised Latent Variable Models

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arXiv:2602. 11219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive uncertainty is commonly decomposed into epistemic and aleatoric components, but standard decompositions often produce strongly correlated estimates because both quantities are derived from the same predictive distribution.

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