Calibrated Probability Forecast Sequences and Measure-Valued Martingales
arXiv:2606.31621
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The paper characterizes sequential auto-calibrated probability forecasts as measure-valued martingales: conditioning on the current forecast history, the expected later predictive measure equals the current one. This gives a principled consistency constraint for neural models that emit distributions at multiple information or refinement steps. The most direct transfer is a moment-based regularizer that permits forecasts to sharpen while preventing systematic, history-dependent probability drift.
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2026
Attach predictive distributions to successive information-update steps of a recurrent, state-space, iterative, or diffusion model and penalize violations of the measure-valued martingale condition. The model may become more certain as information arrives, but its later forecasts must not exhibit systematic conditional bias relative to earlier forecasts.
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