Faithfulness violations in evidential deep learning

Is Epistemic Uncertainty Faithfully Represented by Evidential Deep Learning Methods?

We show that evidential deep learning methods face fundamental optimisation difficulties and that their epistemic uncertainty estimates do not satisfy basic faithfulness properties.

ICML 2024 · July 2024 · Mira Jürgens, Nis Meinert, Viktor Bengs, Eyke Hüllermeier, Willem Waegeman