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New SVE method quantifies foundation model uncertainty efficiently

Researchers have developed a new method called Singular Value Ensemble (SVE) to quantify the uncertainty of foundation models more efficiently. Traditional methods using ensembles of independently trained models are computationally expensive for large models. SVE, however, freezes the singular vectors of weight matrices and only trains per-member singular values, effectively creating an ensemble with less than a 1% increase in parameter count. This approach improves model calibration and maintains predictive accuracy across various NLP and vision tasks. AI

IMPACT Offers a computationally efficient way to estimate uncertainty in large foundation models, improving reliability for downstream applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for quantifying model uncertainty. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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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…