Beyond Procedure: Substantive Fairness in Conformal Prediction

Our paper, Beyond Procedure: Substantive Fairness in Conformal Prediction, with Pengqi Liu, Zijun Yu, Mouloud Belbahri, Masoud Asgharian, and Jesse Cresswell, is now available on https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16794 Conformal prediction (CP) offers distribution-free uncertainty quantification for machine learning models, yet its interplay with fairness in downstream decision-making remains underexplored. Moving beyond CP as a standalone operation (procedural fairness), we analyze the holistic decision-making pipeline to evaluate substantive fairness-the equity of downstream outcomes. …