arXiv:2608. 20326v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are often overconfident, assigning high confidence even to incorrect predictions.
By Parampreet Singh, Anushka Singh, Sumit Kumar, Vipul Arora
arXiv:2608. 09768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A prediction that is both confident and wrong is a critical reliability failure because it can bypass abstention and human review precisely when the model is mistaken.
By Ange-Cl\'ement Akazan, Ineza Remy Mugenga, Abebe Geletu, Jean Medard Ngnotchouye, Issa Karambal
arXiv:2610.27443v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Set-valued classification (SVC) offers a practical approach to communicating uncertainty while maintaining accuracy by predicting variable-sized sets p...
By Kevin Kasa, Scott C. Lowe, Graham W. Taylor
The main challenge in applying deep neural networks to real-world scenarios lies in distributional discrepancies between training and test datasets, often caused by variations in data acquisition cond...
arXiv:2606. 28654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers suffer from poor calibration when their softmax outputs (predictive confidence) deviate from the empirical likelihoods.
By Thiru Thillai Nadarasar Bahavan, Sachith Seneviratne, Saman Halgamuge
The paper introduces DUA-D2C, a Dynamic Uncertainty-Aware Divide2Conquer method that improves overfitting remediation in deep learning. It refines the traditional Divide2Conquer approach by dynamically weighting subset models based on a composite score of accuracy and normalized prediction entropy, allowing the central model to learn more from generalizable and confident edge models. The authors provide theoretical justification, show reduced model variance, and demonstrate significant generalization gains across image, audio, and text benchmarks, even when combined with standard regularizers like Dropout.
By Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Md. Golam Rabiul Alam