Deciding When to Decide: Testing Operational Suboptimality Under Distributional Shift

arXiv:2608.29465 · stat.ML, cs.LG, stat.ME · Submitted 2026-08-29 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG, stat.ME

Submitted: 2026-08-29

Updated: 2026-08-29

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