Questions tagged [epistemic-uncertainty]

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Do we need as much information to know if we can can answer a question as we need to actually answer the question?

I am reading The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, and in page 12 I see the following diagram. The box on the right side of box 5 "Can the query be answered?" is located before box 6 and box 9 which are the processes…
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Does MobileNet SSD v2 only capture aleatoric uncertainty (and so not the epistemic one)?

Regarding the MobileNet SSD v2 model, I was wondering to what extend it captures uncertainty of the predictions. There are 2 types of uncertainty, data uncertainty (aleatoric) and model uncertainty (epistemic). The model outputs bounding boxes with…