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Abstract

This paper discusses a transductive version of conformal predictors. This version is computationally inefficient for big test sets, but it turns out that apparently crude “Bonferroni predictors” are about as good in their information efficiency and vastly superior in computational efficiency.

Keywords

Conformal prediction transduction Bonferroni adjustment 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Vladimir Vovk
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  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceRoyal Holloway, University of LondonEghamUK

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