CSD seminar

Machine learning models are often seen as black-box systems that output point predictions without indicating how confident they are in those predictions. Recently, Conformal Prediction (CP) has emerged as a powerful framework to address this issue by transforming point predictions into set-valued predictions with probabilistic guarantees. In this talk, I will introduce CP and briefly present some key challenges and recent advances in the area. I will first discuss how to perform CP in a Federated Learning setting, showing that a single round of communication is sufficient to match the […]

Conformal prediction (CP) constructs uncertainty sets for model outputs with finite-sample coverage guarantees. A candidate output is included in the prediction set if its non-conformity score is not considered extreme relative to the scores observed on a set of calibration examples. However, this procedure is only straightforward when scores are scalar-valued, which has limited CP to real-valued scores or ad-hoc reductions to one dimension. The problem of ordering vectors has been studied via optimal transport (OT), which provides a principled method for defining vector-ranks and multivariate quantile regions, though typically […]