What is calibration in deep learning?
Sarah Cherry
Updated on February 21, 2026
Calibration—the idea that a model's pre- dicted probabilities of outcomes reflect true probabil- ities of those outcomes—formalizes this notion. Cur- rent calibration metrics fail to consider all of the pre- dictions made by machine learning models, and are in- efficient in their estimation of the calibration error.
What is calibration in machine learning?
Calibrated modelA machine learning model is calibrated if it produces calibrated probabilities. More specifically, probabilities are calibrated where a prediction of a class with confidence p is correct 100*p percent of the time.