AI RESEARCH
Post-ADC Inference: Valid Inference After Active Data Collection
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.11511v1 Announce Type: cross The validity of statistical inference depends critically on how data are collected. When data gathered through active data collection (ADC) are reused for a post-hoc inferential task, conventional inference can fail because the sampling is adaptively biased toward regions favored by the collection strategy.