Confidence-Gated Robot Autonomy: When Does Uncertainty Actually Help?

In three linesStudy on using predictive uncertainty for autonomous/deferral decisions in robotics. Across three temporal activity-recognition benchmarks, uncertainty provides reliable error ranking only when the base model is sufficiently competent. Softmax, MC Dropout, and ensembles produce similar gating behavior; threshold choice has larger impact than uncertainty method.

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