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Workshop: Structured Probabilistic Inference and Generative Modeling

Empirically Validating Conformal Prediction on Modern Vision Architectures Under Distribution Shift and Long-tailed Data

Kevin Kasa · Graham Taylor

Keywords: [ Conformal Prediction ] [ Uncertainty Estimation ] [ out-of-distribution ]


Abstract:

Conformal prediction has emerged as a rigorous means of providing deep learning models with reliable uncertainty estimates and safety guarantees. Yet, its performance is known to degrade under distribution shift and long-tailed class distributions, which are often present in real world applications. Here, we characterize the performance of several post-hoc and training-based conformal prediction methods under these settings, providing the first empirical evaluation on large-scale datasets and models. We show that across numerous conformal methods and neural network families, performance greatly degrades under distribution shifts violating safety guarantees. Similarly, we show that in long-tailed settings the guarantees are frequently violated on many classes. Understanding the limitations of these methods is necessary for deployment in real world and safety-critical applications.

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