# Unsupervised Recalibration

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09157 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.09157/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Aug 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Bayesian Quantification with Black-Box Estimators](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.09159/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Unsupervised recalibration (URC) is a general way to improve the accuracy of an already trained probabilistic classification or regression model upon encountering new data while deployed in the field. URC does not require any ground truth associated with the new field data. URC merely observes the model's predictions and recognizes when the training set is not representative of field data, and then corrects to remove any introduced bias. URC can be particularly useful when applied separately to different subpopulations observed in the field that were not considered as features when training the machine learning model. This makes it possible to exploit subpopulation information without retraining the model or even having ground truth for some or all subpopulations available. Additionally, if these subpopulations are the object of study, URC serves to determine the correct ground truth distributions for them, where naive aggregation methods, like averaging the model's predictions, systematically underestimate their differences.