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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 10, 2026
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This is an unrefereed preprint introducing a mathematical framework for quantifying the local robustness of predictions from naive Bayes and generative forest classifiers under specified perturbation models. The authors demonstrate their method on benchmark datasets and report that robustness values correlate with prediction trustworthiness, but the work has not undergone peer review and provides no clinically relevant empirical validation.
Preprint. Benchmark datasets (names and sample sizes not specified); no human or clinical population studied.. Intervention: Mathematical framework for local robustness quantification applied to naive Bayes classifiers and generative forests under perturbations defined by epsilon-contamination, total variation distance, and chi-squared divergence neighborhoods.. Compared with: Other trustworthiness indicators (not named in abstract)..
Robustness value of a prediction serves as an indicator for its trustworthiness Methods support perturbations via epsilon-contamination, total variation distance, and chi-squared divergence balls Approach compared with other trustworthiness indicators on benchmark datasets
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This is an unrefereed arXiv preprint presenting a computational method for quantifying classifier robustness; it lacks peer review and reports no clinical or real-world empirical validation against established benchmarks.
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We provide methods for calculating the robustness of the predictions of two types of generative classifiers whose underlying distribution is a Probabilistic Graphical Model (PGM): naive Bayes classifiers and generative forests (a probabilistic extension of random forests). Following the paradigm of robustness quantification, we define the robustness of a prediction as the extent to which the distribution of the classifier can be perturbed without changing this prediction. We consider perturbations obtained by varying the local models of the PGMs within general neighborhoods and focus in particular on epsilon-contamination, total variation distance and chi-squared divergence balls. We test our methods on benchmark datasets, demonstrate that the robustness value of a prediction serves as an indicator for its trustworthiness and compare our approach with other such indicators.
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