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machine learning Oct 07, 2026

Conformal Prediction Sets Quantify Information Gain: A Theoretical Perspective

Conformal prediction has become a standard tool for uncertainty quantification because it produces prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees under minimal assumptions. Practitioners routinely treat the size of these s...

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