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Classification under Nuisance Parameters and Generalized Label Shift in Likelihood-Free Inference
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Embedded Internet Systems Lab. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Italy; Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, Italy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1659-8727
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2024 (English)In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2024 / [ed] Ruslan Salakhutdinov; Zico Kolter; Katherine Heller; Adrian Weller; Nuria Oliver; Jonathan Scarlett; Felix Berkenkamp, ML Research Press , 2024, Vol. 235, p. 34987-35012, article id 201670Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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An open scientific challenge is how to classify events with reliable measures of uncertainty, when we have a mechanistic model of the data-generating process but the distribution over both labels and latent nuisance parameters is different between train and target data. We refer to this type of distributional shift as generalized label shift (GLS). Direct classification using observed data X as covariates leads to biased predictions and invalid uncertainty estimates of labels Y. We overcome these biases by proposing a new method for robust uncertainty quantification that casts classification as a hypothesis testing problem under nuisance parameters. The key idea is to estimate the classifier's receiver operating characteristic (ROC) across the entire nuisance parameter space, which allows us to devise cutoffs that are invariant under GLS. Our method effectively endows a pretrained classifier with domain adaptation capabilities and returns valid prediction sets while maintaining high power. We demonstrate its performance on two challenging scientific problems in biology and astroparticle physics with data from realistic mechanistic models.

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ML Research Press , 2024. Vol. 235, p. 34987-35012, article id 201670
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Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, ISSN 2640-3498
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Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-110133Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85203805703OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-110133DiVA, id: diva2:1902469
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41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024
Available from: 2024-10-01 Created: 2024-10-01 Last updated: 2025-10-21Bibliographically approved

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