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ARXIV:2603.10745 · UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.10745UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATIONSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
CUPID is a plug-in framework that enables joint estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in deep learning models without retraining.
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CUPID is a plug-in framework that enables joint estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in deep learning models without retraining. In practice, understanding the reason behind a model's uncertainty and the type of uncertainty…
Accurate estimation of uncertainty in deep learning is critical for deploying models in high-stakes domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous decision-making, where overconfident predictions can lead to harmful outcomes. In practice, understanding the…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. In practice, understanding the reason behind a model's uncertainty and the type of uncertainty it represents can support risk-aware decisions, enhance user trust, and…
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CUPID is a plug-in framework that enables joint estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in deep learning models without retraining.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.10745CUPID is a plug-in framework that enables joint estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in deep learning models without retraining.
Abstract
Accurate estimation of uncertainty in deep learning is critical for deploying models in high-stakes domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous decision-making, where overconfident predictions can lead to harmful outcomes. In practice, understanding the reason behind a model's uncertainty and the type of uncertainty it represents can support risk-aware decisions, enhance user trust, and guide additional data collection. However, many existing methods only address a single type of uncertainty or require modifications and retraining of the base model, making them difficult to adopt in real-world systems. We introduce CUPID (Comprehensive Uncertainty Plug-in estImation moDel), a general-purpose module that jointly estimates aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty without modifying or retraining the base model. CUPID can be flexibly inserted into any layer of a pretrained network. It models aleatoric uncertainty through a learned Bayesian identity mapping and captures epistemic uncertainty by analyzing the model's internal responses to structured perturbations. We evaluate CUPID across a range of tasks, including classification, regression, and out-of-distribution detection. The results show that it consistently delivers competitive performance while offering layer-wise insights into the origins of uncertainty. By making uncertainty estimation modular, interpretable, and model-agnostic, CUPID supports more transparent and trustworthy AI. Related code and data are available at https://github.com/a-Fomalhaut-a/CUPID.
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CUPID is a plug-in framework that enables joint estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in deep learning models without retraining. In practice, understanding the reason behind a model's uncertainty and the type of uncertainty it represents can support risk-aware decis...
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Accurate estimation of uncertainty in deep learning is critical for deploying models in high-stakes domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous decision-making, where overconfident predictions can lead to harmful outcomes. In practice, understanding the reason behind a mode...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. In practice, understanding the reason behind a model's uncertainty and the type of uncertainty it represents can support risk-aware decisions, enhance user trust, and guide additional data collection.
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Uncertainty Estimation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
We introduce CUPID (Comprehensive Uncertainty Plug-in estImation moDel), a general-purpose module that jointly estimates aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty without modifying or retraining the base model.
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CUPID can be flexibly inserted into any layer of a pretrained network.
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and captures epistemic uncertainty by analyzing the model's internal responses to structured perturbations.
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We evaluate CUPID across a range of tasks, including classification, regression, and out-of-distribution detection. The results show that it consistently delivers competitive performance
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while offering layer-wise insights into the origins of uncertainty.
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However, many existing methods only address a single type of uncertainty or require modifications and retraining of the base model, making them difficult to adopt in real-world systems.
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By making uncertainty estimation modular, interpretable, and model-agnostic, CUPID supports more transparent and trustworthy AI.
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