Felix Kwasi Sarpong

Verification-Conditioned Abstention: Withholding Unverifiable Claims in Labor-Market Decision Support

Selective prediction, learning to defer, and conformal methods all condition the decision to abstain on the model’s estimate of its own correctness. We define and deploy an alternative. In verification-conditioned abstention the selection function is a decidable predicate over an...

Verification-Conditioned Abstention: Withholding Unverifiable Claims in Labor-Market Decision Support

Selective prediction, learning to defer, and conformal methods all condition the decision to abstain on the model’s estimate of its own correctness. We define and deploy an alternative. In verification-conditioned abstention the selection function is a decidable predicate over an...