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Auteurs principaux: Bailie, James, Derr, Rabanus
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05857
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author Bailie, James
Derr, Rabanus
author_facet Bailie, James
Derr, Rabanus
contents Property elicitation studies which attributes of a probability distribution can be determined by minimizing a risk. We investigate a generalization of property elicitation to imprecise probabilities (IP). This investigation is motivated by distributionally robust optimization and multi-distribution learning. Both those frameworks replace the minimization of a single risk over a (precise) probability by a maximin risk minimization over a set of probabilities -- i.e. an IP. We show what can be learned in those multi-distribution setups by providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the elicitability of an IP-property. Central to these conditions is the observation made in related literature that the elicited IP-property is the corresponding classical property of the probability in the IP with the maximum Bayes risk.
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spellingShingle Property Elicitation on Imprecise Probabilities
Bailie, James
Derr, Rabanus
Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
Property elicitation studies which attributes of a probability distribution can be determined by minimizing a risk. We investigate a generalization of property elicitation to imprecise probabilities (IP). This investigation is motivated by distributionally robust optimization and multi-distribution learning. Both those frameworks replace the minimization of a single risk over a (precise) probability by a maximin risk minimization over a set of probabilities -- i.e. an IP. We show what can be learned in those multi-distribution setups by providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the elicitability of an IP-property. Central to these conditions is the observation made in related literature that the elicited IP-property is the corresponding classical property of the probability in the IP with the maximum Bayes risk.
title Property Elicitation on Imprecise Probabilities
topic Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05857