Papers with uncertainty models
Crossroads of Optimization under Uncertainty: How to Choose the Optimal Model (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to Optimization under Uncertainty (OuU) have inherent limitations and advantages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that automates the modeling and solving of six types of uncertainty models and generates mapping pairs to explore the potential relationship between optimization problems and optimal models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves superior performance even on specific model types, with correlation analysis showing that data scale and specific scenario significantly influence model selection. |
Mitigating Uncertainty in Document Classification (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for uncertainty measurement are time-consuming and unable to handle large-scale data sets. |
| Approach: | They propose a new dropout-entropy method for uncertainty measurement and a metric learning method on feature representations to boost the performance of dropout based uncertainty methods. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves accuracy from 0.78 to 0.92 when 30% of the most uncertain predictions were handed over to human experts in “20NewsGroup” data. |
Towards More Accurate Uncertainty Estimation In Text Classification (2020.emnlp-main)
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Jianfeng He, Xuchao Zhang, Shuo Lei, Zhiqian Chen, Fanglan Chen, Abdulaziz Alhamadani, Bei Xiao, ChangTien Lu
| Challenge: | Existing models of uncertainty score depend on winning score, which is the maximum probability in a semantic vector. |
| Approach: | They propose to generate accurate uncertainty score by improving the confidence of winning scores by reducing the effect of overconfidence of winning score and considering the impact of different categories simultaneously. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model reduces the effect of overconfidence of winning score and considers impact of different categories of uncertainty simultaneously. |