Conformal Prediction Sets Improve Human Decision Making
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| author | Cresswell, Jesse C. Sui, Yi Kumar, Bhargava Vouitsis, Noël |
| author_facet | Cresswell, Jesse C. Sui, Yi Kumar, Bhargava Vouitsis, Noël |
| contents | In response to everyday queries, humans explicitly signal uncertainty and offer alternative answers when they are unsure. Machine learning models that output calibrated prediction sets through conformal prediction mimic this human behaviour; larger sets signal greater uncertainty while providing alternatives. In this work, we study the usefulness of conformal prediction sets as an aid for human decision making by conducting a pre-registered randomized controlled trial with conformal prediction sets provided to human subjects. With statistical significance, we find that when humans are given conformal prediction sets their accuracy on tasks improves compared to fixed-size prediction sets with the same coverage guarantee. The results show that quantifying model uncertainty with conformal prediction is helpful for human-in-the-loop decision making and human-AI teams. |
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| spellingShingle | Conformal Prediction Sets Improve Human Decision Making Cresswell, Jesse C. Sui, Yi Kumar, Bhargava Vouitsis, Noël Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction In response to everyday queries, humans explicitly signal uncertainty and offer alternative answers when they are unsure. Machine learning models that output calibrated prediction sets through conformal prediction mimic this human behaviour; larger sets signal greater uncertainty while providing alternatives. In this work, we study the usefulness of conformal prediction sets as an aid for human decision making by conducting a pre-registered randomized controlled trial with conformal prediction sets provided to human subjects. With statistical significance, we find that when humans are given conformal prediction sets their accuracy on tasks improves compared to fixed-size prediction sets with the same coverage guarantee. The results show that quantifying model uncertainty with conformal prediction is helpful for human-in-the-loop decision making and human-AI teams. |
| title | Conformal Prediction Sets Improve Human Decision Making |
| topic | Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13744 |