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I have a regression GAM (General Additive Model) and I want to learn its epistemic uncertainty( the variance of my residuals or predictions as a function of my input).
I have already used a bayesian approach to turn my GAM into a gaussian process so I can construct a covariance matrix but this approach is not scalable due to the high dimension of my problem.
I am trying to use an approach that uses the current model as a black-box and observe only the input and the residual, the closest thing that I found is quantile regression but I was wondering if there is any deep learning approach that learn the variance from the input.
Most of deep learning approach that I found estimate the mean and the variance simultaneously (Deep bayes, MVE, MC dropout ...)
A naive approach that I am implementing currently is a neural network that learn the variance as function of my input by minimizing the likelihood of my residuals as a centred gaussian but I didn't find any paper or ressources on this approach.
Do you have any idea on the problem, any possible ressources or an opinion on my current approach ?
Thanks

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Take a look on Google trust score - https://github.com/google/TrustScore

Based on the following paper - https://papers.nips.cc/paper/9547-can-you-trust-your-models-uncertainty-evaluating-predictive-uncertainty-under-dataset-shift.pdf

A relatively naive but useful approach

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