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New angular calibration method offers provable optimality for high-dimensional classifiers

Researchers have developed a new method for calibrating linear binary classifiers in high-dimensional settings. The technique, called angular calibration, uses the angle between the estimated and true weight vectors to create a well-calibrated predictor. This approach is provably optimal and can be consistently estimated, with classical Platt scaling shown to converge to this optimal solution under certain conditions. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Yufan Li, Pragya Sur ·

    Optimal and Provable Calibration in High-Dimensional Binary Classification: Angular Calibration and Platt Scaling

    arXiv:2502.15131v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the fundamental problem of calibrating a linear binary classifier of the form $\sigma(\hat{w}^\top x)$, where the feature vector $x$ is Gaussian, $\sigma$ is a link function, and $\hat{w}$ is an estimator of the t…