Anytime-valid, Bayes-assisted, Prediction-Powered Inference
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| author | Kilian, Valentin Cortinovis, Stefano Caron, François |
| author_facet | Kilian, Valentin Cortinovis, Stefano Caron, François |
| contents | Given a large pool of unlabelled data and a smaller amount of labels, prediction-powered inference (PPI) leverages machine learning predictions to increase the statistical efficiency of confidence interval procedures based solely on labelled data, while preserving fixed-time validity. In this paper, we extend the PPI framework to the sequential setting, where labelled and unlabelled datasets grow over time. Exploiting Ville's inequality and the method of mixtures, we propose prediction-powered confidence sequence procedures that are asymptotically valid uniformly over time and naturally accommodate prior knowledge on the quality of the predictions to further boost efficiency. We carefully illustrate the design choices behind our method and demonstrate its effectiveness in real and synthetic examples. |
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| spellingShingle | Anytime-valid, Bayes-assisted, Prediction-Powered Inference Kilian, Valentin Cortinovis, Stefano Caron, François Machine Learning Statistics Theory Given a large pool of unlabelled data and a smaller amount of labels, prediction-powered inference (PPI) leverages machine learning predictions to increase the statistical efficiency of confidence interval procedures based solely on labelled data, while preserving fixed-time validity. In this paper, we extend the PPI framework to the sequential setting, where labelled and unlabelled datasets grow over time. Exploiting Ville's inequality and the method of mixtures, we propose prediction-powered confidence sequence procedures that are asymptotically valid uniformly over time and naturally accommodate prior knowledge on the quality of the predictions to further boost efficiency. We carefully illustrate the design choices behind our method and demonstrate its effectiveness in real and synthetic examples. |
| title | Anytime-valid, Bayes-assisted, Prediction-Powered Inference |
| topic | Machine Learning Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18000 |