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Enhancing Deep Learning with Bayesian Inference

By : Matt Benatan, Jochem Gietema, Marian Schneider
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Enhancing Deep Learning with Bayesian Inference

By: Matt Benatan, Jochem Gietema, Marian Schneider

Overview of this book

Deep learning has an increasingly significant impact on our lives, from suggesting content to playing a key role in mission- and safety-critical applications. As the influence of these algorithms grows, so does the concern for the safety and robustness of the systems which rely on them. Simply put, typical deep learning methods do not know when they don’t know. The field of Bayesian Deep Learning contains a range of methods for approximate Bayesian inference with deep networks. These methods help to improve the robustness of deep learning systems as they tell us how confident they are in their predictions, allowing us to take more in how we incorporate model predictions within our applications. Through this book, you will be introduced to the rapidly growing field of uncertainty-aware deep learning, developing an understanding of the importance of uncertainty estimation in robust machine learning systems. You will learn about a variety of popular Bayesian Deep Learning methods, and how to implement these through practical Python examples covering a range of application scenarios. By the end of the book, you will have a good understanding of Bayesian Deep Learning and its advantages, and you will be able to develop Bayesian Deep Learning models for safer, more robust deep learning systems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

8.8 Further reading

The following reading list will offer a greater understanding of some of the topics we touched on in this chapter:

  • Benchmarking neural network robustness to common corruptions and perturbations, Dan Hendrycks and Thomas Dietterich, 2019: this is the paper that introduced the image quality perturbations to benchmark model robustness, which we saw in the robustness case study.

  • Can You Trust Your Model’s Uncertainty? Evaluating predictive Uncertainty Under Dataset Shift, Yaniv Ovadia, Emily Fertig et al., 2019: this comparison paper uses image quality perturbations to introduce artificial dataset shift at different severity levels and measures how different deep neural networks respond to dataset shift in terms of accuracy and calibration.

  • A Baseline for Detecting Misclassified and Out-of-Distribution Examples in Neural Networks, Dan Hendrycks and Kevin Gimpel, 2016: this fundamental out-of-distribution detection paper introduces the concept and shows that softmax...