# Policy-driven Conformal Prediction for Trustworthy QoT Estimation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12501 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.12501/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 0 of its 8 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jun 2026.

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

- [Explanation-Based Runtime Verification for Trustworthy ML-driven Optical Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.20675/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose Conformal QoT, a policy-driven framework that combines statistically guaranteed QoT estimation with operational decision policies, enabling reliable lightpath-feasibility predictions under domain shift and improving accuracy from 92% to 99.6% on open datasets.
