arXiv:2510.14581cs.LGcs.AI2025-10

让AI自动选可信任标签,保证错误率可控。

Model-agnostic Selective Labeling with Provable Statistical Guarantees

  • 用置信度对比构建统计检验,筛选可信预测
  • 严格控制错误标签比例,确保每百个中错少于指定数
  • 适用于图像、文本及大模型问答场景

大规模数据标注成本高昂,依赖人工专家耗时费力。虽可用AI模型替代标注,但其标签质量受模型误判影响。现有方法采用选择性标注,即部分由AI完成,其余交由人工修正,但缺乏对AI标签质量的理论保障,常导致其子集中错误率过高。为此,本文提出「置信标签法」(Conformal Labeling),通过控制假发现率(FDR)——即被选中标签中错误的比例——实现可证明的可靠性。具体地,针对每个测试样本,基于其预测置信度与校准集中被误标样本的置信度进行比较,构造置信水平对应的p值;若p值低于数据决定的阈值,则保留该标签,视为可信。理论证明该方法能将实际FDR控制在预设水平之下,保证平均而言一定比例的AI标签正确。大量实验表明,该方法在图像分类、文本标注及大模型问答等任务中均实现紧致的FDR控制与高检测能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Obtaining high-quality labels for large datasets is expensive, requiring massive annotations from human experts. While AI models offer a cost-effective alternative by predicting labels, their label quality is compromised by the unavoidable labeling errors. Existing methods mitigate this issue through selective labeling, where AI labels a subset and human labels the remainder. However, these methods lack theoretical guarantees on the quality of AI-assigned labels, often resulting in unacceptably high labeling error within the AI-labeled subset. To address this, we introduce \textbf{Conformal Labeling}, a novel method to identify instances where AI predictions can be provably trusted. This is achieved by controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), the proportion of incorrect labels within the selected subset. In particular, we construct a conformal $p$-value for each test instance by comparing AI models' predicted confidence to those of calibration instances mislabeled by AI models. Then, we select test instances whose $p$-values are below a data-dependent threshold, certifying AI models' predictions as trustworthy. We provide theoretical guarantees that Conformal Labeling controls the FDR below the nominal level, ensuring that a predefined fraction of AI-assigned labels is correct on average. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves tight FDR control with high power across various tasks, including image and text labeling, and LLM QA.

标签选择统计保证置信推理高效标注

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