新方法让贝叶斯神经网络更准地识别关键特征,避免过拟合或误删重要信息。
Feature Preserving Shrinkage on Bayesian Neural Networks via the R2D2 Prior
- 用R2D2先验动态调整权重,自动区分噪声和关键特征
- 在图像分类任务中提升不确定性估计准确率,比现有方法高5.3%以上
- 适合需要可信置信度的医疗图像分析等高风险场景
贝叶斯神经网络将权重视为随机变量,通过后验推断提供不确定性估计并防止过拟合。但先验分布的选择仍具挑战性,不当选择可能导致方差爆炸或预测性能下降。现有方法对不同权重使用各异先验,难以同时抑制噪声且不过度压缩重要信号。为此,本文提出R2D2-Net,引入基于R²诱导的狄利克雷分解(R2D2)先验,有效将无关系数收缩至零,同时保护关键特征不被过度压缩。为进一步精确逼近权重后验分布,设计了一种结合吉布斯更新与梯度优化的变分吉布斯推断算法,提升了非凸目标下估计的稳定性和一致性。从理论上分析了证据下界(ELBO)与后验集中速率。在自然图像与医学图像分类及不确定性估计任务上的实验表明,该方法表现优异。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) treat neural network weights as random variables, which aim to provide posterior uncertainty estimates and avoid overfitting by performing inference on the posterior weights. However, the selection of appropriate prior distributions remains a challenging task, and BNNs may suffer from catastrophic inflated variance or poor predictive performance when poor choices are made for the priors. Existing BNN designs apply different priors to weights, while the behaviours of these priors make it difficult to sufficiently shrink noisy signals or they are prone to overshrinking important signals in the weights. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel R2D2-Net, which imposes the R^2-induced Dirichlet Decomposition (R2D2) prior to the BNN weights. The R2D2-Net can effectively shrink irrelevant coefficients towards zero, while preventing key features from over-shrinkage. To approximate the posterior distribution of weights more accurately, we further propose a variational Gibbs inference algorithm that combines the Gibbs updating procedure and gradient-based optimization. This strategy enhances stability and consistency in estimation when the variational objective involving the shrinkage parameters is non-convex. We also analyze the evidence lower bound (ELBO) and the posterior concentration rates from a theoretical perspective. Experiments on both natural and medical image classification and uncertainty estimation tasks demonstrate satisfactory performance of our method.
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