AI RESEARCH

Conformal Prediction via Transported Beta Laws

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.19024v1 Announce Type: cross Split conformal prediction provides finite-sample marginal coverage under exchangeability, but this guarantee averages over the random calibration sample. We study instead the law of the calibration-conditional coverage induced by a realized conformal threshold. In the continuous i.i.d. setting this law is exactly $Beta(k,n+1-k)$, so the usual marginal guarantee corresponds to its mean. We take this beta law as a finite-sample reference object and quantify departures from it using Wasserstein distances on $[0,1.