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New research tackles foundation model uncertainty with efficient ensembles and comparative studies

Two new research papers explore methods for improving uncertainty quantification in foundation models. The first paper introduces Singular Value Ensemble (SVE), a parameter-efficient technique that modulates singular values of weight matrices to create diverse model ensembles, significantly reducing computational cost while maintaining accuracy and improving calibration. The second paper empirically compares tabular foundation models, specifically TabPFN, against Gaussian processes, revealing that while TabPFN excels in complex, data-rich scenarios, Gaussian processes offer superior performance and uncertainty quantification in data-scarce environments, especially when their kernel aligns well with the underlying function. AI

IMPACT Advances in uncertainty quantification are crucial for deploying foundation models in safety-critical applications, potentially increasing trust and adoption.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers published on arXiv presenting novel methods and comparative studies for uncertainty quantification in foundation models.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Mehmet Ozgur Turkoglu, Dominik J. M\"uhlematter, Alexander Becker, Konrad Schindler, Helge Aasen ·

    Quantifying the Uncertainty of Foundation Models with Singular Value Ensembles

    arXiv:2601.22068v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models have become a dominant paradigm in machine learning, achieving remarkable performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining. However, they often yield overconfident, uncalibrated predictions. The…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Tyler R. Johnson, Kian Ben-Jacob, Nima Negarandeh, Oriol Vendrell-Gallart, Ramin Bostanabad ·

    On the Uncertainty Quantification Ability of Tabular Foundation Models

    arXiv:2606.01427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) have achieved substantial success in generalizing across tasks without problemspecific training or fine-tuning. However, many critical applications in mechanics and computational science require not only accu…

  3. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ramin Bostanabad ·

    On the Uncertainty Quantification Ability of Tabular Foundation Models

    Foundation models (FMs) have achieved substantial success in generalizing across tasks without problemspecific training or fine-tuning. However, many critical applications in mechanics and computational science require not only accurate predictions but also reliable uncertainty q…