Truthful Calibration Measures for Sequential Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21348v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:54:05 GMT
• Title: Truthful Calibration Measures for Sequential Prediction
• Abstract summary: Haghtalab et al. (2024) proposed an approximately truthful calibration measure for online prediction.<n>We show that exact truthfulness is incompatible with completeness and soundness, even for independent outcomes.<n>This improves the approximate-truthfulness guarantee of Haghtalab et al. (2024)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Calibration requires probabilistic reports to be conditionally unbiased and reliably interpretable as probabilities. A calibration measure assigns numerical error to miscalibrated reports. Haghtalab et al. (2024) proposed an approximately truthful calibration measure for online prediction, leaving open whether exact truthfulness is compatible with completeness and soundness. We resolve this question negatively for sequential binary prediction: exact truthfulness is incompatible with completeness and soundness, even for independent outcomes. We then show that this impossibility is specific to exact truthfulness. We give two general reductions from a base calibration measure, producing additively and multiplicatively approximately truthful calibration measures, respectively. Applying the multiplicative reduction, for every $0 < \varepsilon < 1$ we construct a sound and complete calibration measure that is $(1+\exp(-T^{(1-\varepsilon)/2}/2))$-multiplicatively truthful. This improves the approximate-truthfulness guarantee of Haghtalab et al. (2024).

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