Robustness Quantification for Discriminative Models: a New Robustness Metric and its Application to Dynamic Classifier Selection

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author Lassance, Rodrigo F. L.
De Bock, Jasper
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De Bock, Jasper
contents Among the different possible strategies for evaluating the reliability of individual predictions of classifiers, robustness quantification stands out as a method that evaluates how much uncertainty a classifier could cope with before changing its prediction. However, its applicability is more limited than some of its alternatives, since it requires the use of generative models and restricts the analyses either to specific model architectures or discrete features. In this work, we propose a new robustness metric applicable to any probabilistic discriminative classifier and any type of features. We demonstrate that this new metric is capable of distinguishing between reliable and unreliable predictions, and use this observation to develop new strategies for dynamic classifier selection.
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spellingShingle Robustness Quantification for Discriminative Models: a New Robustness Metric and its Application to Dynamic Classifier Selection
Lassance, Rodrigo F. L.
De Bock, Jasper
Machine Learning
Among the different possible strategies for evaluating the reliability of individual predictions of classifiers, robustness quantification stands out as a method that evaluates how much uncertainty a classifier could cope with before changing its prediction. However, its applicability is more limited than some of its alternatives, since it requires the use of generative models and restricts the analyses either to specific model architectures or discrete features. In this work, we propose a new robustness metric applicable to any probabilistic discriminative classifier and any type of features. We demonstrate that this new metric is capable of distinguishing between reliable and unreliable predictions, and use this observation to develop new strategies for dynamic classifier selection.
title Robustness Quantification for Discriminative Models: a New Robustness Metric and its Application to Dynamic Classifier Selection
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23318