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Calibrated Learning to Defer with One-vs-All Classifiers
Rajeev Verma · Eric Nalisnick

Tue Jul 19 03:30 PM -- 05:30 PM (PDT) @ Hall E #720
in Poster Session 1 »

The learning to defer (L2D) framework has the potential to make AI systems safer. For a given input, the system can defer the decision to a human if the human is more likely than the model to take the correct action. We study the calibration of L2D systems, investigating if the probabilities they output are sound. We find that Mozannar & Sontag’s (2020) multiclass framework is not calibrated with respect to expert correctness. Moreover, it is not even guaranteed to produce valid probabilities due to its parameterization being degenerate for this purpose. We propose an L2D system based on one-vs-all classifiers that is able to produce calibrated probabilities of expert correctness. Furthermore, our loss function is also a consistent surrogate for multiclass L2D, like Mozannar & Sontag’s (2020). Our experiments verify that not only is our system calibrated, but this benefit comes at no cost to accuracy. Our model's accuracy is always comparable (and often superior) to Mozannar & Sontag’s (2020) model's in tasks ranging from hate speech detection to galaxy classification to diagnosis of skin lesions.

Keywords: Probabilistic Methods · T: Active Learning and Interactive Learning · T: Learning Theory · T: Probabilistic Methods · SA: Trustworthy Machine Learning

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Rajeev Verma (University of Amsterdam)
Eric Nalisnick (University of Amsterdam)

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