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Accelerating difficulty estimation for conformal regression forests

Boström, Henrik (author)
Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap
Linusson, Henrik (author)
Department of Information Technology, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden
Löfström, Tuwe (author)
Jönköping University,Jönköping AI Lab (JAIL),Department of Information Technology, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden
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Johansson, Ulf (author)
Jönköping University,Jönköping AI Lab (JAIL)
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2017-03-01
2017
English.
In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. - : Springer Netherlands. - 1012-2443 .- 1573-7470. ; 81:1-2, s. 125-144
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  • The conformal prediction framework allows for specifying the probability of making incorrect predictions by a user-provided confidence level. In addition to a learning algorithm, the framework requires a real-valued function, called nonconformity measure, to be specified. The nonconformity measure does not affect the error rate, but the resulting efficiency, i.e., the size of output prediction regions, may vary substantially. A recent large-scale empirical evaluation of conformal regression approaches showed that using random forests as the learning algorithm together with a nonconformity measure based on out-of-bag errors normalized using a nearest-neighbor-based difficulty estimate, resulted in state-of-the-art performance with respect to efficiency. However, the nearest-neighbor procedure incurs a significant computational cost. In this study, a more straightforward nonconformity measure is investigated, where the difficulty estimate employed for normalization is based on the variance of the predictions made by the trees in a forest. A large-scale empirical evaluation is presented, showing that both the nearest-neighbor-based and the variance-based measures significantly outperform a standard (non-normalized) nonconformity measure, while no significant difference in efficiency between the two normalized approaches is observed. The evaluation moreover shows that the computational cost of the variance-based measure is several orders of magnitude lower than when employing the nearest-neighbor-based nonconformity measure. The use of out-of-bag instances for calibration does, however, result in nonconformity scores that are distributed differently from those obtained from test instances, questioning the validity of the approach. An adjustment of the variance-based measure is presented, which is shown to be valid and also to have a significant positive effect on the efficiency. For conformal regression forests, the variance-based nonconformity measure is hence a computationally efficient and theoretically well-founded alternative to the nearest-neighbor procedure.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)
NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)
NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

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Conformal prediction
Nonconformity measures
Regression
Random forests

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