基于学习上下文条件高斯上界的卷积不确定性传播方法 / Learning Context-conditioned Gaussian Overbounds for Convolution-Based Uncertainty Propagation
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这篇论文提出了一种新的机器学习方法,能够根据具体场景生成保守且更精确的高斯误差上界,解决了传统安全系统(如自动驾驶、航空)中不确定性量化过于保守或无法组合的问题,并通过实验证明其比现有方法更紧更可靠。
Uncertainty quantification is essential in safety-critical settings--from autonomous driving to aviation, finance, and health--where decisions must rely on conservative bounds rather than point estimates. Predictor-level intervals (e.g., from quantile regression, conformal prediction, variance networks, or Bayesian models) generally do not compose: adding two per-variable intervals need not yield a valid interval for their sum or preserve coverage. In aviation, Gaussian overbounding replaces complex error distributions with a conservative Gaussian whose tails dominate the truth, so conservatism propagates through linear operations. Yet classical overbounds are global, often overly conservative, and hard to adapt to feature-conditioned errors. We propose a unified learning framework that trains neural networks to produce context-aware Gaussian overbounds--mean and scale--with provable conservatism on a finite quantile grid and, under three explicit regularity assumptions, continuous-tail conservatism on a certified interval. Our overbounding loss enforces conservativeness at selected quantiles while penalizing distributional distance with a Wasserstein-style term. The learned bounds support conservative linear-combination and convolution analysis on the enforced grid, and on the certified interval when assumptions hold, while being less redundant than traditional methods. We provide a scoped analysis of discrete-to-continuous conservatism and compact-domain objective regularity, and validate on synthetic data and real-world datasets, including multipath, ionospheric, and tropospheric residual errors. Across these settings, the method yields tighter bounds while maintaining conservatism on the enforced grid and in experiments. The framework is modality-agnostic and applicable to learning systems that require conservative, feature-conditioned uncertainty estimates in dynamic environments.
基于学习上下文条件高斯上界的卷积不确定性传播方法 / Learning Context-conditioned Gaussian Overbounds for Convolution-Based Uncertainty Propagation
这篇论文提出了一种新的机器学习方法,能够根据具体场景生成保守且更精确的高斯误差上界,解决了传统安全系统(如自动驾驶、航空)中不确定性量化过于保守或无法组合的问题,并通过实验证明其比现有方法更紧更可靠。
源自 arXiv: 2605.15789