The sixty-seventh UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, December 14, 2023.
2–3 PM — Pierre Humbert (LMO - INRIA) — [slides]
One-Shot Federated Conformal Prediction
In this presentation, we will focus on a method for constructing prediction sets in a federated learning setting where only one round of communication between the agents and the server is allowed (one-shot). More precisely, by defining a particular estimator called the quantile-of-quantiles, we will prove that for any distribution, it is possible to produce marginally (and training-conditionally) valid prediction sets. Over a wide range of experiments, we will show that we are able to obtain prediction sets whose coverage and length are very similar to those obtained in a centralized setting, making our method particularly well-suited to perform conformal predictions in a one-shot federated learning setting.
Reference: One-Shot Federated Conformal Prediction, ICML 2023
Joint work with Batiste Le Bars, Aurélien Bellet and Sylvain Arlot.
Organizing committee: Pierre Barbillon (MIA-Paris), Julien Bect (L2S), Nicolas Bousquet (EDF R&D), Amélie Fau (LMPS), Filippo Gatti (LMPS), Bertrand Iooss (EDF R&D), Alexandre Janon (LMO), Sidonie Lefebvre (ONERA), Didier Lucor (LISN), Emmanuel Vazquez (L2S).
Coordinators: Julien Bect (L2S) & Sidonie Lefebvre (ONERA)
Practical details: the seminar will be held online using Microsoft Teams.
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