On Temperature Scaling and Conformal Prediction of Deep Classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05806v2
• Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 08:59:21 GMT
• Title: On Temperature Scaling and Conformal Prediction of Deep Classifiers
• Authors: Lahav Dabah, Tom Tirer,
• Abstract summary: Two popular approaches for that aim are: 1): modifies the classifier's softmax values such that the maximal value better estimates the correctness probability; and 2) Conformal Prediction (CP): produces a prediction set of candidate labels that contains the true label with a user-specified probability. In practice, both types of indications are desirable, yet, so far the interplay between them has not been investigated.
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• Abstract: In many classification applications, the prediction of a deep neural network (DNN) based classifier needs to be accompanied by some confidence indication. Two popular approaches for that aim are: 1) Calibration: modifies the classifier's softmax values such that the maximal value better estimates the correctness probability; and 2) Conformal Prediction (CP): produces a prediction set of candidate labels that contains the true label with a user-specified probability, guaranteeing marginal coverage, rather than, e.g., per class coverage. In practice, both types of indications are desirable, yet, so far the interplay between them has not been investigated. We start this paper with an extensive empirical study of the effect of the popular Temperature Scaling (TS) calibration on prominent CP methods and reveal that while it improves the class-conditional coverage of adaptive CP methods, surprisingly, it negatively affects their prediction set sizes. Subsequently, we explore the effect of TS beyond its calibration application and offer simple guidelines for practitioners to trade prediction set size and conditional coverage of adaptive CP methods while effectively combining them with calibration. Finally, we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of TS on the prediction set sizes, revealing several mathematical properties of the procedure, according to which we provide reasoning for this unintuitive phenomenon.

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