AI RESEARCH

Robust Conditional Conformal Prediction via Branched Normalizing Flow

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.01868v1 Announce Type: new Conformal prediction (CP) constructs prediction sets with marginal coverage guarantees under the assumption that the calibration and test distributions are identical. However, under distribution shift, existing approaches primarily align marginal conformal score distributions, which is sufficient to preserve marginal coverage but does not control the conditional coverage error at individual test inputs. As a consequence, CP can remain unreliable in regions where the conditional score distributions are mismatched.