{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/confidence-curves-for-uq-validation","title":"Confidence curves for UQ validation: probabilistic reference vs. oracle","arxiv_id":"2206.15272","date":"2022-06-30","proceeding":null,"authors":["Pascal Pernot"],"abstract":"Confidence curves are used in uncertainty validation to assess how large uncertainties ($u_{E}$) are associated with large errors ($E$). An oracle curve is commonly used as reference to estimate the quality of the tested datasets. The oracle is a perfect, deterministic, error predictor, such as $|E|=\\pm u_{E}$, which corresponds to a very unlikely error distribution in a probabilistic framework and is unable unable to inform us on the calibration of $u_{E}$. I propose here to replace the oracle by a probabilistic reference curve, deriving from the more realistic scenario where errors should be random draws from a distribution with standard deviation $u_{E}$. The probabilistic curve and its confidence interval enable a direct test of the quality of a confidence curve. Paired with the probabilistic reference, a confidence curve can be used to check the calibration and tightness of prediction uncertainties.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15272v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.15272v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"confidence-curves-for-uq-validation","repo_url":"https://github.com/ppernot/2022_Confidence","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}