分离风电预测中的认知与随机不确定性,提升可信度。
A Posterior-Predictive Variance Decomposition for Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty in Wind Power Forecasting

- 基于全方差定律分解预测不确定性
- 实测数据验证分解结果与理论一致
- 适合风电领域需可信预测的场景
准确的风电功率预测需要可靠的不确定性量化,但现有方法常将认知不确定性(EU)与随机不确定性(AU)混为一谈。本文结合异方差神经网络回归与贝叶斯后验近似,利用全方差定律,显式地将总不确定性(TU)分解为AU和EU两部分。所提估计器兼容标准后验近似方法及β-NLL训练,可调控均值-方差学习平衡。提出针对风电的评估框架,无需真实不确定性标签:包含受控合成实验以验证对异方差噪声和分布偏移的响应;基于真实风力机SCADA数据集的数据属性驱动验证;以及数据规模扩展实验,检验EU的渐近行为。在合成与真实实验中,分解后的AU和EU成分对噪声结构、分布偏移及训练规模变化的响应均符合理论预期,证实该分解与评估协议的理论一致性与实际可用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate wind power forecasting requires reliable uncertainty quantification, yet most existing methods report a single predictive uncertainty that conflates epistemic and aleatoric sources. This paper applies the law of total variance to the joint setting of heteroscedastic neural network regression and Bayesian posterior approximation, deriving an explicit decomposition of total uncertainty (TU) into aleatoric (AU) and epistemic (EU) components. The resulting estimators are compatible with standard posterior-approximation methods and with $β$-NLL training to regulate the mean--variance learning trade-off. A wind power--specific evaluation framework is proposed to validate disentanglement without access to ground-truth uncertainty labels, comprising three modules: controlled synthetic experiments to verify responses to heteroscedastic noise and distribution shift; data-property--driven validation on a real-world wind turbine SCADA dataset; and dataset-size scaling experiments to examine the predicted asymptotic behavior of EU. Across synthetic and real-world experiments, the decomposed AU and EU components respond in theoretically consistent directions to noise structure, distributional shift, and training-scale variation, supporting the theoretical consistency and operational utility of the proposed decomposition and evaluation protocol.
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