Probabilistic Deep Learning

Glossary of terms and abbreviations

 

Abbreviation/Term	Definition/Meaning
Aleatoric uncertainty	Data-inherent uncertainty that cannot be further reduced. For example, you can’t tell on which side a coin will land.
API	Application programming interface.
Bayesian mantra	The posterior is proportional to the likelihood times the prior.
BNN	Bayesian neural network. An NN with its weights replaced by distributions. Solved with VI or MC dropout.
Bayesian probabilistic models	Probabilistic models that can state their epistemic uncertainty by characterizing all parameters of a distribution.
Bayesian view of statistics	In the Bayesian view of statistics, the parameters θ are not fixed but follow a distribution. ...