Learning to Defer with an Uncertain Rejector via Conformal Prediction

Feb 1, 2026ยท
Yizirui Fang
,
Eric Nalisnick
ยท 1 min read
Type
Publication
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

Introduces an uncertainty-aware rejector for learning-to-defer systems. For applied scientist review, this TMLR paper is most relevant as evidence of rigorous evaluation for human-AI collaboration, calibration, robustness under distribution shift, and decision quality beyond raw model accuracy.