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ASSET Seminar: “​When Is a Conformal Set, a Conformal Set?”

October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
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Date: October 29, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Event Category: Seminar
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  • Organizer
    AI-enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy (ASSET) Center
    Venue
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia
    19104
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    The two most popular vehicles for communicating uncertainty in the estimates of an unknown quantity are confidence sets and conformal sets. The set produced and its corresponding probability guarantee (conditional on the feature vector) depend upon assumptions the analyst has made about the underlying data generating process. For example, are the residuals independent and normally distributed? Is the data generating process exchangeable? Knowing only the underlying data upon which a model was built, how should one assess the validity of a proffered confidence or conformal set? Second, how should one use these sets to inform decision making?

     

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