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New research highlights limitations in latent space models' uncertainty quantification

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A new paper titled "Biased Dreams" reveals significant limitations in how latent space models quantify epistemic uncertainty. Researchers found that these models, particularly the Recurrent State Space Model used in the Dreamer family, exhibit attractor behavior. This bias can cause discrepancies in environment dynamics to go unnoticed in latent space, undermining the reliability of uncertainty estimates and leading to overestimations of predicted rewards. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential unreliability in uncertainty quantification for latent space models, impacting exploration and reward prediction in reinforcement learning.

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Julia Berger, Bernd Frauenknecht, Sebastian Trimpe, Bastian Leibe ·

    Biased Dreams: Limitations to Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Latent Space Models

    arXiv:2604.25416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning distinguishes between physical dynamics models operating on proprioceptive inputs and latent dynamics models operating on high-dimensional image observations. A prominent latent approach is the Rec…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Bastian Leibe ·

    Biased Dreams: Limitations to Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Latent Space Models

    Model-Based Reinforcement Learning distinguishes between physical dynamics models operating on proprioceptive inputs and latent dynamics models operating on high-dimensional image observations. A prominent latent approach is the Recurrent State Space Model used in the Dreamer fam…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Biased Dreams: Limitations to Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Latent Space Models

    Model-Based Reinforcement Learning distinguishes between physical dynamics models operating on proprioceptive inputs and latent dynamics models operating on high-dimensional image observations. A prominent latent approach is the Recurrent State Space Model used in the Dreamer fam…

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