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Joost Van Amersfoort

5 accepted papers

2023

Deep Deterministic Uncertainty: A New Simple Baseline

CVPR 2023highlight

Reliable uncertainty from deterministic single-forward pass models is sought after because conventional methods of uncertainty quantification are computationally expensive. We take two complex single-forward-pass uncertainty approaches, DUQ and SNGP, and examine whether they mainly rely on a well-re…

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2022

Prospect Pruning: Finding Trainable Weights at Initialization using Meta-Gradients

ICLR 2022poster

Pruning neural networks at initialization would enable us to find sparse models that retain the accuracy of the original network while consuming fewer computational resources for training and inference. However, current methods are insufficient to enable this optimization and lead to a large degrada…

2021

Causal-BALD: Deep Bayesian Active Learning of Outcomes to Infer Treatment-Effects from Observational Data

NeurIPS 2021poster

Estimating personalized treatment effects from high-dimensional observational data is essential in situations where experimental designs are infeasible, unethical, or expensive. Existing approaches rely on fitting deep models on outcomes observed for treated and control populations. However, when me…

2020

Uncertainty Estimation Using a Single Deep Deterministic Neural Network

ICML 2020poster

We propose a method for training a deterministic deep model that can find and reject out of distribution data points at test time with a single forward pass. Our approach, deterministic uncertainty quantification (DUQ), builds upon ideas of RBF networks. We scale training in these with a novel loss…

2019

BatchBALD: Efficient and Diverse Batch Acquisition for Deep Bayesian Active Learning

NeurIPS 2019poster

We develop BatchBALD, a tractable approximation to the mutual information between a batch of points and model parameters, which we use as an acquisition function to select multiple informative points jointly for the task of deep Bayesian active learning. BatchBALD is a greedy linear-time $1 - \nicef…