Section outline

  • Here is a list of possible papers.

    Suggestion of papers to select from:

    • [quost2018classification] Quost, B., & Destercke, S. (2018). Classification by pairwise coupling of imprecise probabilities. Pattern Recognition, 77, 412-425.
      Topic: pairwise decomposition in classification
      Nature: methodological paper

     

    • [maua2018robustifying] Mauá, D. D., Conaty, D., Cozman, F. G., Poppenhaeger, K., & de Campos, C. P. (2018). Robustifying sum-product networks. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 101, 163-180.
      Topic: extending a specific probabilistic circuit (can be seen as a specific neural network) to deal with probability sets
      Nature: mostly methodological (some theory)

     

    • [yang2016cost]Yang, Gen, Sébastien Destercke, and Marie-Hélène Masson (2016). "The costs of indeterminacy: how to determine them?." IEEE transactions on cybernetics 47.12: 4316-4327.
      Topic: Desirable properties of utilities
      Nature:
      methodological

     

    • [bernard2005introduction] Bernard, J. M. (2005). An introduction to the imprecise Dirichlet model for multinomial data. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 39(2-3), 123-150.
      Topic: extending the Dirichlet model used in Bayesian approaches to estimate multinomials to the imprecise case

      Nature: detailed and technical introduction to the model

     

    • [nguyen2025credal] Vu-Linh Nguyen, Haifei Zhang and Sébastien Destercke (2025). Credal ensemble in multi-class classification. Machine Learning , 114 (1), 19.
      Topic: learning model that uses random forest to derive credal sets
      Nature: methodological

     

    • [alarcon2021imprecise] Alarcon, Y. C. C., & Destercke, S. (2021). Imprecise gaussian discriminant classification. Pattern Recognition, 112, 107739
      Topic: learning model that generalises discriminant analysis
      Nature: methodological

     

    • [angelopoulos2021gentle] Angelopoulos, A. N., & Bates, S. (2021). A gentle introduction to conformal prediction and distribution-free uncertainty quantification.
      Topic: general introduction to conformal prediction, and up-to-date survey
      Nature: survey of many results (groups can consider only a part of it)

    • [silva2023classifier] Silva Filho, T., Song, H., Perello-Nieto, M., Santos-Rodriguez, R., Kull, M., & Flach, P. (2023). Classifier calibration: a survey on how to assess and improve predicted class probabilities. Machine Learning, 1-50.
      Topic: general introduction to calibration methods, and up-to-date survey of many results (groups can consider only a part of it)
      Nature: survey of many results (groups can consider only a part of it)

    • [corani2008learning] Corani, G., & Zaffalon, M. (2008). Learning Reliable Classifiers From Small or Incomplete Data Sets: The Naive Credal Classifier 2. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9(4).
      Topic: Extending Naive Bayes Classifier 
      Nature: mostly methodological (some theory)

    • [mantas2014credal] Mantas, Carlos J., and Joaquin Abellan. "Credal-C4. 5: Decision tree based on imprecise probabilities to classify noisy data." Expert Systems with Applications 41.10 (2014): 4625-4637.
      Topic: extending decision trees
      Nature: methodological