论文标题
有效性，辅音合理性指标和保形预测
Validity, consonant plausibility measures, and conformal prediction
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论文摘要
对未来观察的预测是一个重要且具有挑战性的问题。分别量化预测不确定性使用预测区域和预测分布的两种主流方法，后者认为更具信息性，因为它可以执行其他与预测相关的任务。有效性的标准概念（我们在这里称为1型有效性）着重于预测区域的覆盖范围，而缺乏与预测分布执行的其他与预测相关的任务相关的有效性概念。在这里，我们提出了一个与这些其他预测任务相关的新概念，称为2型有效性。我们建立了2型有效性和相干性能之间的联系，并表明为实现它需要不精确的概率考虑因素。我们继续表明，可以通过将共形预测输出作为辅音合理性度量的轮廓函数来实现两种类型的预测有效性。我们还基于新的非参数推论模型构建提供了共形预测的替代表征，其中辅音的出现是自然的，并证明了其有效性。
Prediction of future observations is an important and challenging problem. The two mainstream approaches for quantifying prediction uncertainty use prediction regions and predictive distributions, respectively, with the latter believed to be more informative because it can perform other prediction-related tasks. The standard notion of validity, what we refer to here as Type-1 validity, focuses on coverage probability of prediction regions, while a notion of validity relevant to the other prediction-related tasks performed by predictive distributions is lacking. Here we present a new notion, called Type-2 validity, relevant to these other prediction tasks. We establish connections between Type-2 validity and coherence properties, and show that imprecise probability considerations are required in order to achieve it. We go on to show that both types of prediction validity can be achieved by interpreting the conformal prediction output as the contour function of a consonant plausibility measure. We also offer an alternative characterization of conformal prediction, based on a new nonparametric inferential model construction, wherein the appearance of consonance is natural, and prove its validity.
