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Under weak point-level supervision, only a small subset of points is annotated, making effective use of unlabeled points critical yet non-trivial. Many existing approaches rely on prediction confidence to filter pseudo labels or enforce consistency, which can bias training toward easy points and amplify early mistakes. Consequently, confidently wrong predictions may be reinforced, while uncertain points around class boundaries or in geometrically complex regions are less utilized, limiting further gains. An evidential uncertainty decomposition framework is introduced for weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation. Network outputs are interpreted as evidential distributions, and uncertainty is decomposed to separate lack-of-knowledge uncertainty from boundary-related ambiguity, providing a more informative reliability signal for unlabeled points. Based on this signal, different constraints are applied to different subsets: reliable points are trained with pseudo labels together with prototype-based regularization to encourage intra-class compactness; boundary-ambiguous points are guided by evidential consistency to improve boundary learning; and points with high epistemic uncertainty are excluded from pseudo-label-based supervision to mitigate error reinforcement. In addition, an uncertainty calibration term on sparsely labeled points helps stabilize training. Experiments on S3DIS, ScanNet-V2, and SemanticKITTI yield 67.7%, 59.7%, and 53.3% mIoU, respectively, with only 0.1% labeled points, comparing favorably with prior weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi15040167","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]],"date-time":"2026-04-13T07:29:29Z","timestamp":1776065369000},"page":"167","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Evidentially Driven Uncertainty Decomposition for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8565-8690","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qingyan","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Information Perception, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yixin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Information Perception, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1082-114X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yujing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Information Perception, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shouqiang","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Information Perception, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Qi, C.R., Su, H., Mo, K., and Guibas, L.J. 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