arXiv:2606. 20115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conformal risk control (CRC) provides distribution-free guarantees on segmentation quality by calibrating a prediction-set threshold on held-out data.
arXiv:2606. 15964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are now used in settings where the prompts they receive can change quickly.
arXiv:2606. 20115v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conformal risk control (CRC) provides distribution-free segmentation guarantees by calibrating a prediction-set threshold on held-out data.
arXiv:2606. 29054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) deployed for structured generation (NER, JSON extraction, QA, and classification) lack formal reliability guarantees, and standard heuristic abstention policies miss user-specified risk targets by 7.
arXiv:2607. 27143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-stakes decision systems in credit scoring, fraud detection, healthcare, and industrial safety require reliable uncertainty quantification under severe class imbalance and asymmetric error costs.
arXiv:2607. 16675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A point prediction that is well calibrated on average can still be systematically biased conditional on its own value, undermining its use in downstream decision-making.
arXiv:2606. 15217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline model-based optimization (MBO) proposes candidates by optimizing a surrogate trained on a fixed historical dataset.
The paper introduces a score‑calibrated robustness framework that transforms any fixed point predictor into a decision‑relevant uncertainty representation using distribution‑free conformal calibration. By employing the conformal score as the core unit of robustness, the authors derive both reliability‑based robust optimization and target‑oriented Conformal Robust Satisficing formulations, linking them through a shared robust decision frontier and a fragility measure. Experiments on synthetic data and a real online‑grocery inventory case study demonstrate the framework’s ability to improve reliability, reduce costs, and provide interpretable uncertainty scales for black‑box predictors.
arXiv:2607. 24562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models serve heterogeneous populations structured by domain, topic difficulty, and linguistic style.
In high-stakes healthcare applications, machine learning models are frequently trained on data from one patient population and deployed on another, creating a distribution shift that degrades both acc...
The paper presents a distribution‑free risk‑control framework that provides organ‑specific recall guarantees for frozen multi‑organ CT segmentation models. It calibrates per‑organ thresholds for an AMOS‑trained nnU‑Net, audits its transfer to RAOS, and estimates local re‑certification costs using case‑level voxel false‑negative rates. The study compares Risk‑Controlling Prediction Sets (RCPS) and Conformal Risk Control (CRC), noting that RCPS offers high‑probability control of population‑mean risk while CRC provides weaker expectation control, and evaluates the effectiveness of the Waudby–Smith–Ramdas betting bound versus Hoeffding–Bentkus bounds for re‑certification. "whyItMatters":"The work demonstrates how to maintain organ‑level recall guarantees when deploying segmentation models across different clinical domains, highlighting the trade‑offs between threshold conservatism and re‑certification effort."
The paper introduces AdaConRed, a label‑free post‑conformal decision rule that transforms ambiguous conformal prediction sets into single class assignments for medical image classification. It employs a five‑stage pipeline—vision‑language generative augmentation, a frozen DermFoundation encoder, a lightweight MLP classifier, an entropy‑modulated margin‑aware nonconformity score, and a reassignment step for transitional samples—to improve accuracy on OSCC and ISIC benchmarks. Results show notable gains in malignant class accuracy while maintaining overall performance.