Abstract
Abstract Performance of classifiers is often measured in terms of average accuracy on test data. Despite being a standard measure, average accuracy fails in characterising the fit of the model to the underlying conditional law of labels given the features vector (Y∣X), e.g. due to model misspecification, over fitting, and high-dimensionality. In this paper, we consider the fundamental problem of assessing the goodness-of-fit for a general binary classifier. Our framework does not make any parametric assumption on the conditional law Y∣X and treats that as a black-box oracle model which can be accessed only through queries. We formulate the goodness-of-fit assessment problem as a tolerance hypothesis testing of the form H0:E[Df(Bern(η(X))‖Bern(η^(X)))]≤τ where Df represents an f-divergence function, and η(x), η^(x), respectively, denote the true and an estimate likelihood for a feature vector x admitting a positive label. We propose a novel test, called Goodness-of-fit with Randomisation and Scoring Procedure (GRASP) for testing H0, which works in finite sample settings, no matter the features (distribution-free). We also propose model-X GRASP designed for model-X settings where the joint distribution of the features vector is known. Model-X GRASP uses this distributional information to achieve better power. We evaluate the performance of our tests through extensive numerical experiments.
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