When Does Trimming Help Conformal Prediction? A Retained-Law Diagnostic under Calibration Contamination

arXiv:2605.06204 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-07 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-07

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Conformal Prediction — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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