conditionalconformal is a Python package for conformal prediction with
conditional guarantees.
For example, given a collection of groups conditionalconformal issues
a prediction set
Alternatively, given a collection of covariate shifts
If the collection of shifts is unknown, we also provide a methodology
for providing finite-sample guarantees over arbitrary shifts. To query for the guarantee (which can
depend on the shift of interest), we provide the estimate_coverage function.
conditionalconformal can be installed with pip.
$ pip install conditionalconformalThe easiest way to start using conditionalconformal may be to go through the following notebook:
The CondConf class has the following API:
class CondConf:
def __init__(
self,
score_fn : Callable,
Phi_fn : Callable,
infinite_params : dict = {}
):
"""
Constructs the CondConf object that caches relevant information for
generating conditionally valid prediction sets.
We define the score function and set of conditional guarantees
that we care about in this function.
Parameters
---------
score_fn : Callable[np.ndarray, np.ndarray] -> np.ndarray
Fixed (vectorized) conformity score function that takes in
X and Y as inputs and returns S as output
Phi_fn : Callable[np.ndarray] -> np.ndarray
Function that defines finite basis set that we provide
exact conditional guarantees over
infinite_params : dict = {}
Dictionary containing parameters for the RKHS component of the fit
Valid keys are ('kernel', 'gamma', 'lambda')
'kernel' should be a valid kernel name for sklearn.metrics.pairwise_kernels
'gamma' is a hyperparameter for certain kernels
'lambda' is the regularization penalty applied to the RKHS component
"""
def setup_problem(
self,
x_calib : np.ndarray,
y_calib : np.ndarray
):
"""
setup_problem sets up the final fitting problem for a
particular calibration set
The resulting cvxpy Problem object is stored inside the CondConf parent.
Arguments
---------
x_calib : np.ndarray
Covariate data for the calibration set
y_calib : np.ndarray
Labels for the calibration set
"""
def predict(
self,
quantile : float,
x_test : np.ndarray,
score_inv_fn : Callable,
S_min : float = None,
S_max : float = None
):
"""
Returns the (conditionally valid) prediction set for a given
test point
Arguments
---------
quantile : float
Nominal quantile level
x_test : np.ndarray
Single test point
score_inv_fn : Callable[float, np.ndarray] -> .
Function that takes in a score threshold S^* and test point x and
outputs all values of y such that S(x, y) <= S^*
S_min : float = None
Lower bound (if available) on the conformity scores
S_max : float = None
Upper bound (if available) on the conformity scores
Returns
-------
prediction_set
"""
def estimate_coverage(
self,
quantile : float,
weights : np.ndarray,
x : np.ndarray = None
):
"""
estimate_coverage estimates the true percentile of the issued estimate of the
conditional quantile under the covariate shift induced by 'weights'
If we are ostensibly estimating the 0.95-quantile using an RKHS fit, we may
determine using our theory that the true percentile of this estimate is only 0.93
Arguments
---------
quantile : float
Nominal quantile level
weights : np.ndarray
RKHS weights for tilt under which the coverage is estimated
x : np.ndarray = None
Points for which the RKHS weights are defined. If None, we assume
that weights corresponds to x_calib
Returns
-------
estimated_alpha : float
Our estimate for the realized quantile level
"""
def predict_naive(
self,
quantile : float,
x : np.ndarray,
score_inv_fn : Callable
):
"""
If we do not wish to include the imputed data point, we can sanity check that
the regression is appropriately adaptive to the conditional variability in the data
by running a quantile regression on the calibration set without any imputation.
When n_calib is large and the fit is stable, we expect these two sets to nearly coincide.
Arguments
---------
quantile : float
Nominal quantile level
x : np.ndarray
Set of points for which we are issuing prediction sets
score_inv_fn : Callable[np.ndarray, np.ndarray] -> np.ndarray
Vectorized function that takes in a score threshold S^* and test point x and
outputs all values of y such that S(x, y) <= S^*
Returns
-------
prediction_sets
"""
def verify_coverage(
self,
x : np.ndarray,
y : np.ndarray,
quantile : float
):
"""
In some experiments, we may simply be interested in verifying the coverage of our method.
In this case, we do not need to binary search for the threshold S^*, but only need to verify that
S <= f_S(x) for the true value of S. This function implements this check for test points
denoted by x and y
Arguments
---------
x : np.ndarray
A vector of test covariates
y : np.ndarray
A vector of test labels
quantile : float
Nominal quantile level
Returns
-------
coverage_booleans : np.ndarray
"""This code is available for use under the MIT license. If you use this code in a research project, please cite the forthcoming paper.
@article{gibbs2023conformal,
title={Conformal Prediction with Conditional Guarantees},
author={Isaac Gibbs, John J. Cherian, Emmanuel J. Cand\`es},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2023},
note = {arXiv:2305.12616 [stat.ME]},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12616},
}