Tutorial: Heteroscedastic Bayes by Backprop on ADR1D¶
Notebook: Heteroscedastic_BayesByBackprop_ADR1D_Tutorial.ipynb
Scientific problem¶
A manufactured 1D advection-diffusion-reaction field with spatially varying observation noise.
Input and output¶
- input: coordinate
xplus ADR/source parameters - output: scalar field value
u(x)with predicted observation variance
UQ method¶
HeteroscedasticBayesByBackpropRegressorpredict_vi_uq(...)returnsmean,epistemic_var,aleatoric_var, andtotal_var
Why this notebook exists¶
This is the cleanest VI example for separating model uncertainty from input-dependent noise in a scientific regression setting.