TY - JOUR AU - Elder, Benjamin AU - Arnold, Matthew AU - Murthi, Anupama AU - Navrátil, Jiří PY - 2021/05/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Learning Prediction Intervals for Model Performance JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence JA - AAAI VL - 35 IS - 8 SE - AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning I DO - 10.1609/aaai.v35i8.16897 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16897 SP - 7305-7313 AB - Understanding model performance on unlabeled data is a fundamental challenge of developing, deploying, and maintaining AI systems. Model performance is typically evaluated using test sets or periodic manual quality assessments, both of which require laborious manual data labeling. Automated performance prediction techniques aim to mitigate this burden, but potential inaccuracy and a lack of trust in their predictions has prevented their widespread adoption. We address this core problem of performance prediction uncertainty with a method to compute prediction intervals for model performance. Our methodology uses transfer learning to train an uncertainty model to estimate the uncertainty of model performance predictions. We evaluate our approach across a wide range of drift conditions and show substantial improvement over competitive baselines. We believe this result makes prediction intervals, and performance prediction in general, significantly more practical for real-world use. ER -