Certifying Whether to Adapt: Baseline-Relative PAC-Bayes-MMD Guarantees for Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2605.21783 · cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-05-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-05-20

Updated: 2026-10-18

Terminology

• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Credal Set — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aleatoric Uncertainty — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Epistemic Uncertainty — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generalization Bounds — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Test-time Adaptation (TTA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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