Confident Splatting: Confidence-Based Compression of 3D Gaussian
  Splatting via Learnable Beta Distributions
Authors: name: AmirHossein Naghi Razlighi, name: Elaheh Badali Golezani, name: Shohreh Kasaei

3D Gaussian Splatting enables high-quality real-time rendering but often
produces millions of splats, resulting in excessive storage and computational
overhead. We propose a novel lossy compression method based on learnable
confidence scores modeled as Beta distributions. Each splat's confidence is
optimized through reconstruction-aware losses, enabling pruning of
low-confidence splats while preserving visual fidelity. The proposed approach
is architecture-agnostic and can be applied to any Gaussian Splatting variant.
In addition, the average confidence values serve as a new metric to assess the
quality of the scene. Extensive experiments demonstrate favorable trade-offs
between compression and fidelity compared to prior work. Our code and data are
publicly available at
https://github.com/amirhossein-razlighi/Confident-Splatting