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48 results for consistent calibration

This paper rethinks confidence calibration under covariate shifts.

problem Calibration methods struggle with covariate shifts and unstable importance weighting.
method Derives Expectation consistency condition and proposes Expectation consistency loss (ECL).
result ECL loss is compatible with various types of calibration and has the same sample complexity as ECE.

Study on calibration and consistency of adversarial surrogate losses.

problem Designing robust classifiers with theoretical guarantees.
method Extensive analysis of H-calibration and H-consistency of adversarial surrogate losses.
result Some convex loss functions and supremum-based convex losses are not H-calibrated for important hypothesis sets.

This paper establishes the asymptotic consistency of the {\it loss-calibrated variational Bayes} (LCVB) method. LCVB was proposed in~\cite{LaSiGh2011} as a method for approximately computing Bayesian posteriors in a `loss aware' manner. This methodology is also highly relevant in general data-driven decision-making con…

2019-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods for better uncertainty prediction in ML.

problem Insufficient calibration in machine learning regression.
method Conditional calibration with respect to input features (adaptivity).
result Consistency and adaptivity are complementary, and good consistency does not guarantee good adaptivity.

New method simplifies checking consistency of differentiable loss functions.

problem Verifying consistency of differentiable loss functions is difficult.
method Developed a new approach called strong indirect elicitation (strong IE) to simplify checking consistency.
result Strong IE is equivalent to calibration for strongly convex, differentiable surrogates.

The top-kk error is often employed to evaluate performance for challenging classification tasks in computer vision as it is designed to compensate for ambiguity in ground truth labels. This practical success motivates our theoretical analysis of consistent top-kk classification. Surprisingly, it is not rigorously und…

2019-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances out-of-domain calibration of neural networks.

problem Improving calibration performance of deep neural networks in out-of-domain settings.
method Consistency-guided temperature scaling (CTS) that considers style and content consistency.
result Significantly enhances out-of-domain calibration performance.

Study on learning to defer to multiple experts with consistent surrogates and confidence calibration.

problem Addressing the open problems of consistent surrogates, confidence calibration, and ensembling of experts.
method Derive two consistent surrogates (softmax and OvA) and propose a conformal inference technique for choosing experts.
result The OvA-based loss does not cause mis-calibration propagation, while the softmax-based loss does.

Corrects mismatch in consistency of nuisance estimators for doubly robust methods.

problem Mismatch in consistency of nuisance estimators in doubly robust methods.
method Calibrated debiased machine learning (calibrated DML) with isotonic regression adjustment.
result Calibrated DML yields doubly robust asymptotic normality with slower convergence of nuisance estimators.

Benchmark assesses fairness in algorithmic uncertainty, revealing consistent and calibrated estimates improve fairness.

problem Challenges in managing uncertainty in fairness evaluations for predictive algorithms.
method Introduces FairlyUncertain, an axiomatic benchmark for evaluating uncertainty in fairness.
result Consistent and calibrated uncertainty estimates improve fairness without explicit fairness interventions.

Estimates proper calibration errors and refinement terms in probabilistic predictions.

problem Lack of a general estimator for proper calibration errors and refinement terms with known statistical properties.
method Proposes a method for consistent, asymptotically unbiased estimation of proper calibration errors and refinement terms.
result Proves the relation between refinement and f-divergences, implying information monotonicity in neural networks.

Proposes a new calibration error estimator for deep neural networks.

problem Improves calibration of deep neural networks, especially for canonical calibration.
method Uses a Dirichlet kernel density estimate to create a low-bias, trainable calibration error estimator.
result Asymptotically converges to true LpL_p calibration error, enabling efficient estimation and mini-batch updates.

EC method calibrates neural networks by matching average confidence to correct label proportion.

problem Overoptimism in neural network prediction confidence.
method Expectation consistency (EC) post-training rescaling of weights.
result EC achieves similar calibration performance to temperature scaling (TS) but is based on a principled Bayesian principle.

The paper certifies AI reliability via sampling and calibration, providing exact guarantees.

problem Ensuring trust in black-box AI systems' outputs.
method Self-consistency sampling and conformal calibration.
result Reliability levels derived from these methods offer finite-sample guarantees.

Reassesses calibration metrics in machine learning models.

problem Inconsistent reporting of calibration metrics in recent literature.
method Calibration-based decomposition of Bregman divergences, visualization of calibration and generalization error.
result New visualization technique for detecting trade-offs between calibration and generalization.

This research analyzes the consistency of convex and nonconvex surrogate losses for adversarially robust classification.

problem Ensuring classifiers are robust to adversarial perturbations.
method Analysis of convex and nonconvex surrogate losses through the lens of calibration.
result No convex surrogate loss is calibrated with respect to the adversarial 0-1 loss for linear models, but nonconvex losses can be calibrated under certain conditions.

Paper introduces a new method for calibrating ESGs to both historical and forward-looking data.

problem Lack of a generally accepted methodology for calibrating ESGs to forward-looking information.
method Conditional Scenario Simulator framework for consistent calibration of economic and financial variables.
result Framework can embed various financial and macroeconomic models and demonstrate practical examples in frequentist and Bayesian settings.

We propose nonparametric methods for individual calibration in regression models.

problem Uncertainty quantification and individual calibration for regression models.
method Nonparametric methods agnostic of the underlying model, combining nonparametric and covering number arguments.
result Established matching upper and lower bounds for calibration error.

In an incomplete financial market, the axiomatic of Time Consistent Pricing Procedure (TCPP), recently introduced, is used to assign to any financial asset a dynamic limit order book, taking into account both the dynamics of basic assets and the limit order books for options. Kreps-Yan fundamental theorem is extended t…

2008-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In safety-critical applications a probabilistic model is usually required to be calibrated, i.e., to capture the uncertainty of its predictions accurately. In multi-class classification, calibration of the most confident predictions only is often not sufficient. We propose and study calibration measures for multi-class…

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved financial market calibration reveals large excess volatility.

problem Large excess volatility in financial markets.
method Extended Chiarella model to handle long-term value drifts, calibrated on multiple asset classes.
result Large excess volatility (factor ≈ 4 for stock indices) and bimodal mispricing distribution.

New bin-wise scaling methods improve prediction uncertainty calibration for machine learning.

problem Improving prediction uncertainty calibration for machine learning regression.
method Adaptations of Binwise Variance Scaling (BVS) with alternative loss functions and feature-based binning.
result Improved adaptivity and consistency in prediction uncertainty calibration.

A new framework for consistent segmentation evaluation reduces operating losses.

problem Inconsistent thresholding-based segmentation methods lead to suboptimal solutions.
method Developed a consistent ranking-based framework (RankDice/RankIoU) using Bayes rules and Dice-/IoU-calibration.
result The proposed framework is Dice-/IoU-calibrated and provides excess risk bounds and convergence rates.

A new metric CKCE improves model calibration comparison.

problem Comparing the calibration of probabilistic models is challenging.
method CKCE based on Hilbert-Schmidt norm of conditional mean operators.
result CKCE provides more consistent and robust model calibration comparisons.

Time series foundation models are well-calibrated, improving over baseline models.

problem Calibration of time series foundation models for practical applications.
method Systematic evaluations of five time series foundation models and two baselines, assessing calibration, prediction heads, and long-term forecasting.
result Time series foundation models are consistently better calibrated than baseline models and do not show over- or under-confidence.

The paper introduces a spline-based method for calibrating neural networks.

problem Ensuring neural network outputs are reliable for safety-critical applications.
method Approximating the empirical cumulative distribution function using splines to map network outputs to calibrated probabilities.
result The spline-based recalibration consistently outperforms existing methods on calibration measures.

KCal calibrates deep networks by embedding logits in a metric space.

problem Overconfident predictions from DNNs, especially in high-risk applications.
method KCal learns a metric space on the penultimate-layer latent embedding and generates predictions using kernel density estimates.
result KCal provides a provable full calibration guarantee and consistently outperforms baselines.

Improves calibration of regression models without requiring additional data.

problem Poor calibration of regression models leading to unreliable predictions.
method Quantile regularizer based on cumulative KL divergence.
result Significantly improves calibration for regression models trained with Dropout VI and Deep Ensembles.

Post-processing predictors reduces calibration errors for decision-making.

problem Predictors with low calibration error for machine learning may have high error for decision-making.
method Post-processing with ε distance to calibration adds noise to make predictions differentially private.
result Post-processing achieves O(√ε) ECE and CDL, asymptotically optimal.

CRUDE calibrates regression uncertainty without assuming specific error distributions.

problem Uncalibrated uncertainty estimates in regression models, especially for modern predictive tasks.
method CRUDE assumes error distributions have a constant shape, shifted and scaled by predicted mean and standard deviation.
result CRUDE produces sharper, better calibrated, and more accurate uncertainty estimates than existing methods.

This paper improves lottery ticketing by calibrating network confidence.

problem Uncalibrated confidence in lottery tickets leads to overconfidence and poor performance.
method The paper introduces various calibration strategies and explores their impact on lottery tickets.
result Calibration mechanisms consistently improve lottery ticket performance, even under distribution shifts.

Interest in agent-based models of financial markets and the wider economy has increased consistently over the last few decades, in no small part due to their ability to reproduce a number of empirically-observed stylised facts that are not easily recovered by more traditional modelling approaches. Nevertheless, the age…

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel post-hoc calibration method reduces neural network calibration errors.

problem Neural networks produce poorly calibrated probabilities, leading to underconfidence and overconfidence.
method Probability bounding (PB) via box-constrained softmax (BCSoftmax) function.
result Consistently reduces calibration errors on four real-world datasets.

ANN improves option pricing models by calibrating parameters faster and more accurately.

problem Calibration of GARCH-type option pricing models is computationally intensive and model-dependent.
method Trained ANN models on Monte Carlo simulation data to calibrate GARCH parameters.
result ANN outperforms traditional methods in calibration speed and accuracy.

Response calibration is the process of inferring how much the measured data depend on the signal one is interested in. It is essential for any quantitative signal estimation on the basis of the data. Here, we investigate self-calibration methods for linear signal measurements and linear dependence of the response on th…

2013-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves calibration in multi-output probabilistic models.

problem Challenges in achieving multivariate calibration in multi-output regression.
method General regularization framework to enforce multivariate calibration during training for arbitrary pre-rank functions.
result Significant improvement in calibration across all pre-rank functions without sacrificing predictive accuracy.

Mix-n-Match improves uncertainty calibration in deep learning.

problem Post-hoc calibration of machine learning classifiers.
method Ensemble and composition strategies to improve accuracy, efficiency, and expressive power.
result Mix-n-Match strategies achieve better data-efficiency and expressive power while maintaining classification accuracy.