Uncertainty in the Variational Information Bottleneck

07/02/2018
by   Alexander A. Alemi, et al.
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We present a simple case study, demonstrating that Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB) can improve a network's classification calibration as well as its ability to detect out-of-distribution data. Without explicitly being designed to do so, VIB gives two natural metrics for handling and quantifying uncertainty.

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