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New research shows exact truthfulness incompatible with sequential prediction calibration

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A new paper by Haghtalab et al. explores truthful calibration measures for sequential prediction, building on prior work from 2024. The researchers demonstrate that exact truthfulness in calibration measures is incompatible with completeness and soundness for sequential binary prediction, even with independent outcomes. They then propose two general reductions to create approximately truthful calibration measures, with one method improving the approximate-truthfulness guarantee of previous research. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Anagha Gokul, Jason Hartline, Lunjia Hu, Jonathan Ullman, Yifan Wu ·

    Truthful Calibration Measures for Sequential Prediction

    arXiv:2608.21348v1 Announce Type: cross 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 appro…

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