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Main Authors: Xu, Chen, Jiang, Hanyang, Xie, Yao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03850
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author Xu, Chen
Jiang, Hanyang
Xie, Yao
author_facet Xu, Chen
Jiang, Hanyang
Xie, Yao
contents Conformal prediction (CP) has been a popular method for uncertainty quantification because it is distribution-free, model-agnostic, and theoretically sound. For forecasting problems in supervised learning, most CP methods focus on building prediction intervals for univariate responses. In this work, we develop a sequential CP method called $\texttt{MultiDimSPCI}$ that builds prediction $\textit{regions}$ for a multivariate response, especially in the context of multivariate time series, which are not exchangeable. Theoretically, we estimate $\textit{finite-sample}$ high-probability bounds on the conditional coverage gap. Empirically, we demonstrate that $\texttt{MultiDimSPCI}$ maintains valid coverage on a wide range of multivariate time series while producing smaller prediction regions than CP and non-CP baselines.
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spellingShingle Conformal prediction for multi-dimensional time series by ellipsoidal sets
Xu, Chen
Jiang, Hanyang
Xie, Yao
Machine Learning
Conformal prediction (CP) has been a popular method for uncertainty quantification because it is distribution-free, model-agnostic, and theoretically sound. For forecasting problems in supervised learning, most CP methods focus on building prediction intervals for univariate responses. In this work, we develop a sequential CP method called $\texttt{MultiDimSPCI}$ that builds prediction $\textit{regions}$ for a multivariate response, especially in the context of multivariate time series, which are not exchangeable. Theoretically, we estimate $\textit{finite-sample}$ high-probability bounds on the conditional coverage gap. Empirically, we demonstrate that $\texttt{MultiDimSPCI}$ maintains valid coverage on a wide range of multivariate time series while producing smaller prediction regions than CP and non-CP baselines.
title Conformal prediction for multi-dimensional time series by ellipsoidal sets
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03850