Selecting informative conformal prediction sets with false coverage rate control

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Autores principales: Gazin, Ulysse, Heller, Ruth, Marandon, Ariane, Roquain, Etienne
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Publicado: 2024
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author Gazin, Ulysse
Heller, Ruth
Marandon, Ariane
Roquain, Etienne
author_facet Gazin, Ulysse
Heller, Ruth
Marandon, Ariane
Roquain, Etienne
contents In supervised learning, including regression and classification, conformal methods provide prediction sets for the outcome/label with finite sample coverage for any machine learning predictor. We consider here the case where such prediction sets come after a selection process. The selection process requires that the selected prediction sets be `informative' in a well defined sense. We consider both the classification and regression settings where the analyst may consider as informative only the sample with prediction sets small enough, excluding null values, or obeying other appropriate `monotone' constraints. We develop a unified framework for building such informative conformal prediction sets while controlling the false coverage rate (FCR) on the selected sample. While conformal prediction sets after selection have been the focus of much recent literature in the field, the new introduced procedures, called InfoSP and InfoSCOP, are to our knowledge the first ones providing FCR control for informative prediction sets. We show the usefulness of our resulting procedures on real and simulated data.
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spellingShingle Selecting informative conformal prediction sets with false coverage rate control
Gazin, Ulysse
Heller, Ruth
Marandon, Ariane
Roquain, Etienne
Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
In supervised learning, including regression and classification, conformal methods provide prediction sets for the outcome/label with finite sample coverage for any machine learning predictor. We consider here the case where such prediction sets come after a selection process. The selection process requires that the selected prediction sets be `informative' in a well defined sense. We consider both the classification and regression settings where the analyst may consider as informative only the sample with prediction sets small enough, excluding null values, or obeying other appropriate `monotone' constraints. We develop a unified framework for building such informative conformal prediction sets while controlling the false coverage rate (FCR) on the selected sample. While conformal prediction sets after selection have been the focus of much recent literature in the field, the new introduced procedures, called InfoSP and InfoSCOP, are to our knowledge the first ones providing FCR control for informative prediction sets. We show the usefulness of our resulting procedures on real and simulated data.
title Selecting informative conformal prediction sets with false coverage rate control
topic Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12295