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conformal prediction
also conformal inference
Definition of conformal prediction
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: a statistical method that wraps around a predictive model to return a set or interval of possible answers with a user-chosen long-run coverage guarantee, under assumptions such as exchangeable data
- Instead of giving one arrival time, the conformal prediction system returned an interval designed to contain the true time on 90 percent of comparable cases.
- The classifier used conformal prediction to abstain from a single label and return three plausible diagnoses.
Two meanings, one word
In everyday English
A prediction is a statement about what is likely to happen; conformal means following an established form or pattern.
In AI
A statistical method that wraps around a predictive model to return a set or interval of possible answers with a user-chosen long-run coverage guarantee, under…
Origin & history
Vladimir Vovk, Alex Gammerman, and Glenn Shafer developed conformal prediction in the late 1990s. Their 2005 book Algorithmic Learning in a Random World and a 2008 tutorial helped establish the modern framework.
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