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Poster

Conformal Prediction Sets for Ordinal Classification

Prasenjit Dey · Srujana Merugu · Sivaramakrishnan R Kaveri

Great Hall & Hall B1+B2 (level 1) #1626
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Wed 13 Dec 3 p.m. PST — 5 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Ordinal classification (OC), i.e., labeling instances along classes with a natural ordering, is common in multiple applications such as size or budget based recommendations and disease severity labeling. Often in practical scenarios, it is desirable to obtain a small set of likely classes with a guaranteed high chance of including the true class. Recent works on conformal prediction (CP) address this problem for the classification setting with non-ordered labels but the resulting prediction sets (PS) are often non-contiguous and unsuitable for ordinal classification. In this work, we propose a framework to adapt existing CP methods to generate contiguous sets with guaranteed coverage and minimal cardinality. Our framework employs a novel non-parametric approach for modeling unimodal distributions. Empirical results on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate our method outperforms SOTA baselines by 4% on Accuracy@K and 8% on PS size.

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