Rethinking Epistemic Uncertainty in Node Classification through Information Growth
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arXiv:2610.03418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Epistemic uncertainty should decrease as additional information about the data-generating process (DGP) becomes available to the predictor. Yet, existing graph evidential deep learning (EDL) methods for node classification typically construct epistemic uncertainty from graph-specific properties and evaluate it on downstream tasks such as out-of-distribution detection, which do not test its reducibility as information about the DGP increases. To make reducibility directly testable, we introduce a statistical framework for studying epistemic unce
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.03418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Epistemic uncertainty should decrease as additional information about the data-generating process (DGP) becomes available to the predictor.
- Yet, existing graph evidential deep learning (EDL) methods for node classification typically construct epistemic uncertainty from graph-specific properties and evaluate it on downstream tasks such as out-of-distribution detection, which do not test its reducibility as information about the DGP increases.
- To make reducibility directly testable, we introduce a statistical framework for studying epistemic unce
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