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Computing Full Conformal Prediction Set with Approximate Homotopy

20 Sep 2019NeurIPS 2019 12arXiv:1909.09365archive 2025-07-28

Eugene Ndiaye, Ichiro Takeuchi

If you are predicting the label y of a new object with ŷ, how confident are you that y = ŷ? Conformal prediction methods provide an elegant framework for answering such question by building a 100 (1 - α)% confidence region without assumptions on the distribution of the data. It is based on a refitting procedure that parses all the possibilities for y to select the most likely ones. Although providing strong coverage guarantees, conformal set is impractical to compute exactly for many regression problems. We propose efficient algorithms to compute conformal prediction set using approximated solution of (convex) regularized empirical risk minimization. Our approaches rely on a new homotopy continuation technique for tracking the solution path with respect to sequential changes of the observations. We also provide a detailed analysis quantifying its complexity.

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