Conformal Prediction Sets Quantify Information Gain: A Theoretical Perspective

arXiv:2610.08785 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Conformal Prediction — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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