Conformal Exchangeability Martingale
Conformal exchangeability martingales are defined in the article conformal testing. The notion of a conformal exchangeability martingale has several pitfalls:
- Conformal exchangeability martingales are randomized: they depend not only on the observations
⚠ $z_1,z_2,\ldots$
but also on independent random numbers taking values in 0,1$. - Each conformal exchangeability martingale
⚠ $S_n$
is a martingale only in the sense of satisfying⚠ $E(S_{n+1}\mid S_1,\ldots,S_n)=S_n$
. It does not satisfy⚠ $E(S_{n+1}\mid \mathcal{F}_n)=S_n$
(where⚠ $\mathcal{F}_n$
is the past including the observations⚠ $z_1,\ldots,z_n$
) except in trivial cases. - Therefore, the sum of two conformal exchangeability martingales does not have to be a conformal exchangeability martingale.
The main open question about conformal exchangeability martingales is whether they exhaust the class of exchangeability martingales.