让机器人预测更可靠:用可学习的不确定度函数提升安全性和效率
Learnable Conformal Prediction with Context-Aware Nonconformity Functions for Robotic Planning and Perception
- 用轻量神经网络动态生成上下文感知的不确定性,替代固定评分
- 分类集合缩小18%,检测框变窄52%,路径规划成功率从72%提至91%
- 适合资源受限的自主系统,支持在线更新且能耗仅为集成方法的1/7
机器人中的深度学习模型常输出无校准置信度的点估计,无法在新样本、噪声或分布外输入下量化可靠性。共形预测(CP)提供无需分布假设的覆盖率保证,但依赖固定非符合度评分,忽略上下文信息,导致区间过保守或不安全。本文提出可学习共形预测(LCP),以轻量神经函数取代固定评分,融合几何、语义和任务特征生成上下文感知的不确定性集。LCP保持理论保证的同时,在分类任务中集合大小减少18%,检测区间收紧52%,路径规划成功率从72%提升至91%。在七个基准上的三类机器人任务中,均优于标准CP与集成基线。在CIFAR-100和ImageNet分类中,集合大小减少4.7%-9.9%;在COCO、BDD100K和Cityscapes目标检测中,边界框缩小46%-54%;路径规划在杂乱环境中成功率达91.5%,路径膨胀仅4.5%(标准CP为12.2%)。方法轻量(约4.8%运行时开销,42KB内存),支持在线适应。硬件测试显示,增加内存不足1%,推理开销15.9%,仍维持39 FPS检测速度,能耗仅为集成方法的7.4倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning models in robotics often output point estimates with poorly calibrated confidences, offering no native mechanism to quantify predictive reliability under novel, noisy, or out-of-distribution inputs. Conformal prediction (CP) addresses this gap by providing distribution-free coverage guarantees, yet its reliance on fixed nonconformity scores ignores context and can yield intervals that are overly conservative or unsafe. We address this with Learnable Conformal Prediction (LCP), which replaces fixed scores with a lightweight neural function that leverages geometric, semantic, and task-specific features to produce context-aware uncertainty sets. LCP maintains CP's theoretical guarantees while reducing prediction set sizes by 18% in classification, tightening detection intervals by 52%, and improving path planning safety from 72% to 91% success with minimal overhead. Across three robotic tasks on seven benchmarks, LCP consistently outperforms Standard CP and ensemble baselines. In classification on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet, it achieves smaller set sizes (4.7-9.9% reduction) at target coverage. For object detection on COCO, BDD100K, and Cityscapes, it produces 46-54% tighter bounding boxes. In path planning through cluttered environments, it improves success to 91.5% with only 4.5% path inflation, compared to 12.2% for Standard CP. The method is lightweight (approximately 4.8% runtime overhead, 42 KB memory) and supports online adaptation, making it well suited to resource-constrained autonomous systems. Hardware evaluation shows LCP adds less than 1% memory and 15.9% inference overhead, yet sustains 39 FPS on detection tasks while being 7.4 times more energy-efficient than ensembles.
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