核心概念
Physics-Informed Structural Causal Model (PI-SCM) improves coverage robustness in machine learning predictions.
要約
The content discusses the importance of uncertainty in decision-making with machine learning and introduces Conformal Prediction (CP) as a method to handle uncertainty. It highlights the challenges of distribution shift on calibration and test data, proposing PI-SCM to reduce coverage divergence. The article delves into the theoretical quantification of coverage difference, upper bounding it using cumulative density functions, and applying Wasserstein distance for evaluation. Experiments on traffic speed prediction and epidemic spread tasks validate the effectiveness of PI-SCM in improving coverage robustness across different datasets.
1. Introduction:
- Uncertainty is crucial in decision-making with machine learning.
- Conformal Prediction (CP) predicts sets with confidence levels.
- Challenges arise when conditional distributions differ between calibration and test data.
2. Background:
- CP framework provides prediction sets based on exchangeability assumption.
- Importance weighting addresses conditional exchangeability for better coverage.
3. Methodology:
- Coverage divergence quantified using CDFs of conformal scores.
- PI-SCM proposed to capture physical causality for improved domain generalization.
4. Experiment:
- Experiments conducted on traffic speed prediction and epidemic spread tasks.
Impact Statement:
The work aims to advance machine learning by enhancing coverage robustness through physics-informed models, potentially impacting various fields without specific societal consequences highlighted.
統計
"Conformal prediction (CP) calculates conformal scores."
"Coverage can be guaranteed even if marginal distributions differ."
"Importance weighting ensures coverage if conditional distributions remain the same."
引用
"Inspired by the invariance of physics across data distributions."
"PI-SCM introduces more causality to reduce coverage divergence."
"Models guided by PI-SCM show better domain generalization ability."