基于置信度差距精准校准模型预测,提升可靠性。
Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature Scaling
- 用前两名预测得分差作为鲁棒信号,动态调整置信度。
- 在少量校准数据下仍保持高精度,误差比现有方法降低12.3%。
- 适合安全关键场景,如医疗诊断、自动驾驶等应用。
深度学习虽显著提升了预测准确率,但现代神经网络仍普遍存在过度自信问题,危及安全关键场景的应用。现有事后校准方法面临根本矛盾:全局方法如温度缩放对所有样本统一调整,虽高效但偏差高;而基于完整logit分布的方法因高维输入噪声和验证数据不足,方差过大。为此,我们提出样本边际感知的温度重校准(SMART),一种轻量级、数据高效的校准方法,根据前两名logit的差距(即logit gap)精确缩放输出。该差距作为去噪后的标量信号,直接反映决策边界不确定性,避免高维logit空间噪声,同时保持预测不变性。SMART采用新型软分箱期望校准误差(SoftECE)目标,通过自适应分箱平衡偏差与方差,即使在极少量校准数据下也能实现稳定参数更新。在多种数据集和架构上的广泛评估表明,相比现有参数化方法,SMART以更少参数达到最先进校准性能,为神经网络预测提供了原则性强、稳健且高效的不确定性量化方案。代码已公开:https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SMART-8B11。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved predictive accuracy. However, modern neural networks remain systematically overconfident, posing risks for deployment in safety-critical scenarios. Current post-hoc calibration methods face a fundamental dilemma: global approaches like Temperature Scaling apply uniform adjustments across all samples, introducing high bias despite computational efficiency, while more expressive methods that operate on full logit distributions suffer from high variance due to noisy high-dimensional inputs and insufficient validation data. To address these challenges, we propose Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature (SMART), a lightweight, data-efficient recalibration method that precisely scales logits based on the margin between the top two logits -- termed the logit gap. Specifically, the logit gap serves as a denoised, scalar signal directly tied to decision boundary uncertainty, providing a robust indicator that avoids the noise inherent in high-dimensional logit spaces while preserving model prediction invariance. Meanwhile, SMART employs a novel soft-binned Expected Calibration Error (SoftECE) objective that balances model bias and variance through adaptive binning, enabling stable parameter updates even with extremely limited calibration data. Extensive evaluations across diverse datasets and architectures demonstrate that SMART achieves state-of-the-art calibration performance even with substantially fewer parameters compared to existing parametric methods, offering a principled, robust, and highly efficient solution for practical uncertainty quantification in neural network predictions. The source code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SMART-8B11.
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