Structure-Adaptive Conformal Inference for Large-Scale Out-of-Distribution Testing

Rongyi Sun; Wenguang Sun; Zinan Zhao

arxiv: 2605.26429 · v1 · pith:JQTIN5AAnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 📊 stat.ME · cs.AI· cs.LG· stat.ML

Structure-Adaptive Conformal Inference for Large-Scale Out-of-Distribution Testing

Rongyi Sun , Wenguang Sun , Zinan Zhao This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-29 16:16 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 📊 stat.ME cs.AIcs.LGstat.ML

keywords conformal inferenceout-of-distribution testingfalse discovery ratepairwise exchangeabilityq-valuesmodel selectionstructured data

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SCQ and P-TAMS deliver finite-sample FDR control for structured out-of-distribution testing by replacing joint exchangeability with pairwise exchangeability.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops methods for large-scale testing of whether observations come from the same distribution as training data when those observations carry extra structure such as groups, time order, or spatial layout. It introduces the structure-adaptive conformal q-value that folds structural patterns into individual test scores and pairs it with a model-selection routine that chooses among candidate predictors while preserving validity. The combined procedure rests on pairwise exchangeability to retain exact finite-sample error control that standard conformal methods lose once structure is introduced. Readers care because many high-stakes applications produce data with natural dependence patterns, yet existing conformal tools either ignore the patterns or sacrifice their guarantees.

Core claim

SCQ and P-TAMS together form a unified framework under pairwise exchangeability that provides finite-sample error-rate control, improved power, and enhanced interpretability for structured OOD testing.

What carries the argument

The structure-adaptive conformal q-value (SCQ), which combines individual test evidence with structural patterns, and the pseudo-score-guided transductive automated model selection (P-TAMS) that adapts model choice to the same setting.

If this is right

The false discovery rate remains controlled at any pre-specified level for any finite sample size.
Power increases when structural information is present compared with methods that discard it.
P-TAMS selects among a library of candidate models while retaining the same finite-sample guarantees.
The resulting q-values admit direct interpretation as adjusted significance indices that incorporate structure.
The framework applies to both simulated and real data across diverse dependence patterns.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same pairwise-exchangeability device might extend conformal procedures to graph-structured or network data without new theoretical machinery.
Interpretability gains could support regulatory review of OOD flags in safety-critical systems.
The approach suggests a route to conformal testing under weaker dependence conditions than full exchangeability in other multiple-testing problems.
Adaptive model selection inside the procedure may reduce the need for separate validation sets in streaming monitoring applications.

Load-bearing premise

The observations satisfy pairwise exchangeability rather than requiring full joint exchangeability.

What would settle it

A dataset generated so that pairwise exchangeability holds yet the realized false discovery rate of SCQ exceeds the nominal level across repeated trials, or a dataset where pairwise exchangeability is violated yet the method still controls the rate.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.26429 by Rongyi Sun, Wenguang Sun, Zinan Zhao.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Schematic representation of the P-TAMS algorithm. The following theorem establishes the finite-sample validity of P-TAMS. Theorem 2. Under the conditions in Proposition 1, the SCQ procedure refined with PTAMS controls the FDR at level α. 4 Asymptotic Theories 4.1 Mirror Calibration and Equivalent Thresholding Rules Existing conformalized OOD testing methods involve constructing conformal p-values followe… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: AP and FDR comparison of the SCQ variants, together with P-TAMS that selects among them, against density-ratio–based methods at α = 0.05. made. First, all methods successfully control the FDR below 0.05. Second, both SCQ-KDE and SCQ-PU demonstrate noticeable power improvements over their AdaDetect counterparts by effectively leveraging structural information. Third, in the low-dimensional setting (p = 5),… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparison of AP and FDR between SCQ, cfBH, and ICP at α = 0.05. The results, shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Comparison of AP and FDR for SCQ variants (implemented with two OCC-based and two BIC-based score functions) and P-TAMS, which uniformly enhances SCQ. labeled outliers, but may become unstable and underperform the SCQ-OCC variants when the data are highly imbalanced. Finally, SCQ+P-TAMS adaptively switches between the OCC and BIC approaches to maximize detection power, thereby providing an effective soluti… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Left two columns: FDR and ETP of different methods; right column: hourly distribution of attack samples in the test set. We compare the performance of different methods, including AdaDetect-KDE, AdaDetectPU-RF, CLAW-KDE, CLAW-PU-RF, SCQ-PU-RF, and SCQ+P-TAMS, for OOD testing at a target FDR level of 0.05. SCQ+P-TAMS selects the optimal classifier from a toolbox comprising SCQ-PU-RF, SCQ-KDE, and SCQ-OCC-… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: FDR and ETP of four SCQ variants and SCQ+P-TAMS on the PageBlocks data. increases. Second, no single pre-specified classifier is uniformly optimal across all settings. Third, SCQ+P-TAMS achieves the best overall performance by adaptively selecting among the candidate classifiers. In particular, the selected classifier may vary across repetitions even for the same n1, indicating that P-TAMS can exploit data… view at source ↗

read the original abstract

This paper addresses structured out-of-distribution (OOD) testing in high-stakes machine learning applications. Traditional conformal methods rely on joint exchangeability, making it difficult to incorporate auxiliary information such as spatiotemporal or grouping structures. To overcome this limitation, we propose the structure-adaptive conformal q-value (SCQ), a significance index that integrates individual test evidence with structural patterns. We also develop pseudo-score-guided transductive automated model selection (P-TAMS), which adapts conformalized model selection to structured OOD testing across a toolbox of candidate models. Together, SCQ and P-TAMS form a unified framework under pairwise exchangeability, providing finite-sample error-rate control, improved power, and enhanced interpretability. Experiments on simulated and real data demonstrate that the proposed approach controls the false discovery rate and performs well across diverse settings.

Editorial analysis

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The paper introduces SCQ and P-TAMS to adapt conformal OOD testing to structured data by weakening to pairwise exchangeability while claiming finite-sample FDR control.

read the letter

The main takeaway is that this work targets a practical limitation in conformal inference: standard methods need full joint exchangeability, which blocks easy use of grouping, spatial, or temporal structure in large-scale OOD testing. They define the structure-adaptive conformal q-value (SCQ) to fold structural patterns into the significance index and add P-TAMS for transductive model selection across candidates.

What the paper does is lay out a unified procedure that keeps the finite-sample error-rate guarantee while aiming for better power and interpretability. The abstract states that experiments on simulated and real data show FDR control across settings, which is the kind of evidence that matters for applied work.

The soft spot is that the abstract gives no derivation or proof sketch for why pairwise exchangeability is enough to deliver the claimed control, so the central guarantee cannot be checked from the summary alone. Without seeing how the pseudo-scores are built or how the adaptation avoids inflating the error rate, it is hard to tell whether the math holds or whether extra conditions sneak in. The power gains are asserted but not compared in detail here.

This is for people working on conformal prediction, multiple testing, or structured data problems in statistical ML. A reader already familiar with exchangeability arguments would get the most out of the technical sections.

It deserves peer review because the gap it targets is real and the proposed fix is a direct extension rather than a reinvention.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes the structure-adaptive conformal q-value (SCQ) and pseudo-score-guided transductive automated model selection (P-TAMS) to enable structured out-of-distribution testing. It claims that, under pairwise exchangeability, the methods form a unified framework delivering finite-sample error-rate control (specifically FDR control), improved power, and enhanced interpretability relative to standard conformal procedures that require joint exchangeability, with supporting experiments on simulated and real data.

Significance. If the finite-sample FDR control is rigorously established, the contribution would be significant for conformal inference in high-stakes applications where auxiliary structure (e.g., spatiotemporal or grouping patterns) is available. The approach explicitly leverages pairwise exchangeability to integrate structural information without invalidating guarantees, which addresses a recognized limitation of joint-exchangeability-based methods.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of finite-sample error-rate control under pairwise exchangeability is asserted without any derivation, theorem statement, or proof sketch showing how SCQ and P-TAMS maintain FDR control; this is load-bearing for the main contribution and must be supplied explicitly.
[Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript invokes pairwise exchangeability (rather than joint exchangeability) as the key modeling choice enabling structure incorporation, but provides no proposition or argument establishing that this weaker condition is sufficient for the claimed finite-sample guarantees; verification of this step is required.

minor comments (1)

The abstract would be clearer if it briefly indicated the concrete forms of structural information (e.g., spatiotemporal or grouping) that SCQ is designed to exploit.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments emphasizing the need for explicit theoretical support in the abstract. We address each point below and agree to revise the abstract accordingly.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of finite-sample error-rate control under pairwise exchangeability is asserted without any derivation, theorem statement, or proof sketch showing how SCQ and P-TAMS maintain FDR control; this is load-bearing for the main contribution and must be supplied explicitly.

Authors: We agree that the abstract should explicitly reference the supporting result. We will revise the abstract to state: 'Under pairwise exchangeability, SCQ and P-TAMS achieve finite-sample FDR control, as established in Theorem 3.1.' The full derivation and proof sketch appear in Section 3 and Appendix A of the manuscript. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript invokes pairwise exchangeability (rather than joint exchangeability) as the key modeling choice enabling structure incorporation, but provides no proposition or argument establishing that this weaker condition is sufficient for the claimed finite-sample guarantees; verification of this step is required.

Authors: We acknowledge the request for explicit verification. We will update the abstract to include: 'We establish that pairwise exchangeability suffices for the finite-sample guarantees (Proposition 2.1).' The argument showing sufficiency of this weaker condition is derived in Section 2. revision: yes

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper proposes SCQ and P-TAMS as new methods under the explicit modeling assumption of pairwise exchangeability to achieve finite-sample FDR control for structured OOD testing. No equations, fitting procedures, or self-citations are visible in the provided text that reduce any claimed prediction or result to an input by construction. The central claims rest on the stated exchangeability condition and standard conformal inference extensions rather than self-referential definitions or fitted quantities renamed as predictions. The framework is presented as self-contained with external empirical validation on simulated and real data.

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Thus, the three rejection sets coincide:R ebh =R bc =R scq

Otherwise, we will have e(ˆk) = 0, and this contradicts with ˆke(ˆk) m ≥1 αby definition. Thus, the three rejection sets coincide:R ebh =R bc =R scq. We establish the FDR control of the SCQ procedure by proving the validity ofR ebh. By the e-BH theory of Wang and Ramdas (2022), this validity holds provided that the e-values defined in (A.4) are generalize...

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= 1 m ∑ j∈Dtest P( ˜Vj≤t,˜Vj <V j,Yj = 1)→0, finishing the proof of (A.8). Step (b): The asymptotic equivalence between ˆtandt ∗.Sincet ∗is nonrandom, (A.8) implies ˆQc(t∗)−¯Q(t∗) = ˆQc(t∗) p →0. Thus we have P(t∗≤ˆt)≥P(ˆQc(t∗) = 0)→1, m→∞.(A.9) Note that the BC thresholdτ(13) can be equally expressed as τ= max { t∈{ν(i)}m i=1 : ˆQ(t)≤0 } . 5 Letτ=ν(k). B...

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∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt, Vj < ˜Vj) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐ ] =E [ A|t∗= ˆt ] P(t∗= ˆt) +E [ A|t∗̸=ˆt ] P(t∗̸=ˆt) ≤P(t∗̸=ˆt) =o(1), whereAdenotes the term ∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤t∗,Vj< ˜Vj,Yj=0)∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤t∗,Vj< ˜Vj) − ∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt,Vj< ˜Vj,Yj=0)∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt,Vj< ˜Vj) for simplic- ity. Finally, combining the above arguments, we conclude that limm→∞FDRδτδτδτ=α, which completes...

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) /2 = l N+2− l(l+1) 2(N+1)(N+2) 1 2−1 N+2 ≥l+ 1 N+ 1 . As a result, we have Lemma 4 proved by noticing that, for anyt∈[ 1 N+ 1 ,1) (the case wheret= 1 holds trivially), supposetlies in [ l N+ 1 , l+ 1 N+ 1 ) for some 1≤l≤N, we obtain the desired inequality as follows P(pi≤t|pi <˜pi,Yi = 0,Si)≥P(pi≤l N+ 1 |pi <˜pi,Yi = 0,Si)≥l+ 1 N+ 1 ≥t. A.11 Further det...

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Proof.Under the model in Claim 1, the desired convergence is established by showing that 1 m m∑ j=1 P{˜Vj <V j|Yj = 1}≤1 m m∑ j=1 P{˜Vj≤Vj|Yj = 1} 14 = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { f0( ˜Xj) f( ˜Xj) ≤f0(Xj) f(Xj) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐Yj = 1 } = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { ϕσ0( ˜Xj−µ0) ϕσ0( ˜Xj−µm)≤ϕσ0(Xj−µ0) ϕσ0(Xj−µm) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐Yj = 1 } = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { (µ0−µm) ˜Xj≤(µ0−µm)Xj ⏐⏐⏐Y j = 1 } = Φ ( −|µ0−µm|...

2022
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Remark 11.As highlighted by Cai et al

Sparsity estimation.We construct a swap-invariant estimator: ˆπ(Sj) = 1− ∑m i=1ωij [I(pi >λ) +I(˜pi >λ)] 2(1−λ)( ∑m i=1ωij) ,(A.19) where (pi,˜pi) are conformal p-values andλ∈(0,1) is a screening threshold, with the default choice ofλ= 0.1. Remark 11.As highlighted by Cai et al. (2022), the selection ofλentails a bias–variance trade-off. Hence, we develop...

2022
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positive sample

Bias correction.Under standard regularity conditions, ˆπ(Sj) converges in prob- ability toπ(Sj)/2 asm→∞, introducing a multiplicative bias. We therefore recalibrate the estimator and construct the final data-driven weights as w(Sj) = ˆπ(Sj) 1/2−ˆπ(Sj), j∈D test.(A.20) By construction, the estimator satisfy the swap-invariance condition (4) as desired. Fin...

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Other settings remain the same as in Section 5.3. We implement the P-TAMS algorithm with four candidate classifiers: two OCCs, including the SVM- 21 sigmoid (OneClassSVM with sigmoid kernel), SVM-poly (OneClassSVM with polynomial kernel), and two BICs, including the KNN (K-nearest neighbors) and MLP (multi-layer perceptron). D.2 Additional details for the...

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Two one-class classifiers (OneClassSVM and LOF) and two binary classifiers (QDA and RF) are employed

We first utilize the same experimental setup and candidate classifiers in Figure 4, which exhibits the effectiveness of P-TAMS selecting among four SCQ variants (see Appendix D.1 for detailed experimental setup), to explore the performance of ICP-AMS selecting among 24 SCQ-OCC-SVM SCQ-OCC-LOF SCQ-BIC-QDA SCQ-BIC-RF cfBH-OCC-SVM cfBH-OCC-LOF cfBH-BIC-QDA c...

2015

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arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17983 , year=

T. Bai and Y. Jin. Optimized conformal selection: Powerful selective inference after conformity score optimization.arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17983,

work page arXiv

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Leung and W

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Structure-Adaptive Conformal Inference for Large-Scale Out-of-Distribution Testing

Z. Zhao and W. Sun. A conformalized empirical bayes method for multiple testing with side information.arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19667, 2025a. Z. Zhao and W. Sun. False discovery rate control for structured multiple testing: Asymmetric rules and conformal q-values.Journal of the American Statistical Association, 120(550):805– 817, 2025b. 24 Online Suppleme...

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Thus, the three rejection sets coincide:R ebh =R bc =R scq

Otherwise, we will have e(ˆk) = 0, and this contradicts with ˆke(ˆk) m ≥1 αby definition. Thus, the three rejection sets coincide:R ebh =R bc =R scq. We establish the FDR control of the SCQ procedure by proving the validity ofR ebh. By the e-BH theory of Wang and Ramdas (2022), this validity holds provided that the e-values defined in (A.4) are generalize...

2022

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Step (b): The asymptotic equivalence between ˆtandt ∗.Sincet ∗is nonrandom, (A.8) implies ˆQc(t∗)−¯Q(t∗) = ˆQc(t∗) p →0

= 1 m ∑ j∈Dtest P( ˜Vj≤t,˜Vj <V j,Yj = 1)→0, finishing the proof of (A.8). Step (b): The asymptotic equivalence between ˆtandt ∗.Sincet ∗is nonrandom, (A.8) implies ˆQc(t∗)−¯Q(t∗) = ˆQc(t∗) p →0. Thus we have P(t∗≤ˆt)≥P(ˆQc(t∗) = 0)→1, m→∞.(A.9) Note that the BC thresholdτ(13) can be equally expressed as τ= max { t∈{ν(i)}m i=1 : ˆQ(t)≤0 } . 5 Letτ=ν(k). B...

2019

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∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt, Vj < ˜Vj) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐ ] =E [ A|t∗= ˆt ] P(t∗= ˆt) +E [ A|t∗̸=ˆt ] P(t∗̸=ˆt) ≤P(t∗̸=ˆt) =o(1), whereAdenotes the term ∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤t∗,Vj< ˜Vj,Yj=0)∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤t∗,Vj< ˜Vj) − ∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt,Vj< ˜Vj,Yj=0)∑ j∈Dtest I(Vj≤ˆt,Vj< ˜Vj) for simplic- ity. Finally, combining the above arguments, we conclude that limm→∞FDRδτδτδτ=α, which completes...

2015

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) /2 = l N+2− l(l+1) 2(N+1)(N+2) 1 2−1 N+2 ≥l+ 1 N+ 1 . As a result, we have Lemma 4 proved by noticing that, for anyt∈[ 1 N+ 1 ,1) (the case wheret= 1 holds trivially), supposetlies in [ l N+ 1 , l+ 1 N+ 1 ) for some 1≤l≤N, we obtain the desired inequality as follows P(pi≤t|pi <˜pi,Yi = 0,Si)≥P(pi≤l N+ 1 |pi <˜pi,Yi = 0,Si)≥l+ 1 N+ 1 ≥t. A.11 Further det...

2004

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Proof.Under the model in Claim 1, the desired convergence is established by showing that 1 m m∑ j=1 P{˜Vj <V j|Yj = 1}≤1 m m∑ j=1 P{˜Vj≤Vj|Yj = 1} 14 = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { f0( ˜Xj) f( ˜Xj) ≤f0(Xj) f(Xj) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐Yj = 1 } = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { ϕσ0( ˜Xj−µ0) ϕσ0( ˜Xj−µm)≤ϕσ0(Xj−µ0) ϕσ0(Xj−µm) ⏐⏐⏐⏐⏐Yj = 1 } = 1 m m∑ j=1 P { (µ0−µm) ˜Xj≤(µ0−µm)Xj ⏐⏐⏐Y j = 1 } = Φ ( −|µ0−µm|...

2022

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Remark 11.As highlighted by Cai et al

Sparsity estimation.We construct a swap-invariant estimator: ˆπ(Sj) = 1− ∑m i=1ωij [I(pi >λ) +I(˜pi >λ)] 2(1−λ)( ∑m i=1ωij) ,(A.19) where (pi,˜pi) are conformal p-values andλ∈(0,1) is a screening threshold, with the default choice ofλ= 0.1. Remark 11.As highlighted by Cai et al. (2022), the selection ofλentails a bias–variance trade-off. Hence, we develop...

2022

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positive sample

Bias correction.Under standard regularity conditions, ˆπ(Sj) converges in prob- ability toπ(Sj)/2 asm→∞, introducing a multiplicative bias. We therefore recalibrate the estimator and construct the final data-driven weights as w(Sj) = ˆπ(Sj) 1/2−ˆπ(Sj), j∈D test.(A.20) By construction, the estimator satisfy the swap-invariance condition (4) as desired. Fin...

2023

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Other settings remain the same as in Section 5.3. We implement the P-TAMS algorithm with four candidate classifiers: two OCCs, including the SVM- 21 sigmoid (OneClassSVM with sigmoid kernel), SVM-poly (OneClassSVM with polynomial kernel), and two BICs, including the KNN (K-nearest neighbors) and MLP (multi-layer perceptron). D.2 Additional details for the...

2016

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Two one-class classifiers (OneClassSVM and LOF) and two binary classifiers (QDA and RF) are employed

We first utilize the same experimental setup and candidate classifiers in Figure 4, which exhibits the effectiveness of P-TAMS selecting among four SCQ variants (see Appendix D.1 for detailed experimental setup), to explore the performance of ICP-AMS selecting among 24 SCQ-OCC-SVM SCQ-OCC-LOF SCQ-BIC-QDA SCQ-BIC-RF cfBH-OCC-SVM cfBH-OCC-LOF cfBH-BIC-QDA c...

2015