Cross-Validation Conformal Risk Control

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Autori principali: Cohen, Kfir M., Park, Sangwoo, Simeone, Osvaldo, Shamai, Shlomo
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Cohen, Kfir M.
Park, Sangwoo
Simeone, Osvaldo
Shamai, Shlomo
author_facet Cohen, Kfir M.
Park, Sangwoo
Simeone, Osvaldo
Shamai, Shlomo
contents Conformal risk control (CRC) is a recently proposed technique that applies post-hoc to a conventional point predictor to provide calibration guarantees. Generalizing conformal prediction (CP), with CRC, calibration is ensured for a set predictor that is extracted from the point predictor to control a risk function such as the probability of miscoverage or the false negative rate. The original CRC requires the available data set to be split between training and validation data sets. This can be problematic when data availability is limited, resulting in inefficient set predictors. In this paper, a novel CRC method is introduced that is based on cross-validation, rather than on validation as the original CRC. The proposed cross-validation CRC (CV-CRC) extends a version of the jackknife-minmax from CP to CRC, allowing for the control of a broader range of risk functions. CV-CRC is proved to offer theoretical guarantees on the average risk of the set predictor. Furthermore, numerical experiments show that CV-CRC can reduce the average set size with respect to CRC when the available data are limited.
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spellingShingle Cross-Validation Conformal Risk Control
Cohen, Kfir M.
Park, Sangwoo
Simeone, Osvaldo
Shamai, Shlomo
Machine Learning
Conformal risk control (CRC) is a recently proposed technique that applies post-hoc to a conventional point predictor to provide calibration guarantees. Generalizing conformal prediction (CP), with CRC, calibration is ensured for a set predictor that is extracted from the point predictor to control a risk function such as the probability of miscoverage or the false negative rate. The original CRC requires the available data set to be split between training and validation data sets. This can be problematic when data availability is limited, resulting in inefficient set predictors. In this paper, a novel CRC method is introduced that is based on cross-validation, rather than on validation as the original CRC. The proposed cross-validation CRC (CV-CRC) extends a version of the jackknife-minmax from CP to CRC, allowing for the control of a broader range of risk functions. CV-CRC is proved to offer theoretical guarantees on the average risk of the set predictor. Furthermore, numerical experiments show that CV-CRC can reduce the average set size with respect to CRC when the available data are limited.
title Cross-Validation Conformal Risk Control
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11974