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Jip J. Dekker 2018-05-25 14:55:13 +10:00
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\emph{Accuracy} is a common performance metric used in Machine Learning, \emph{Accuracy} is a common performance metric used in Machine Learning,
however in classification problems where the training data is heavily however in classification problems where the training data is heavily biased
biased toward one category, sometimes a model will learn to optimize its toward one category, sometimes a model will learn to optimize its accuracy
accuracy by classifying all instances as one category. I.e. the by classifying all instances as one category. I.e. the classifier will
classifier will classify all images that do not contain Waldo as not classify all images that do not contain Waldo as not containing Waldo, but
containing Waldo, but will also classify all images containing Waldo as will also classify all images containing Waldo as not containing Waldo. Thus
not containing Waldo. Thus we use, other metrics to measure performance we use, other metrics to measure performance as well. \\
as well.
\\ \emph{Precision} returns the percentage of classifications of Waldo that are
\par actually Waldo. \emph{Recall} returns the percentage of Waldos that were
\emph{Precision} returns the percentage of classifications of Waldo that actually predicted as Waldo. In the case of a classifier that classifies all
are actually Waldo. \emph{Recall} returns the percentage of Waldos that things as Waldo, the recall would be 0. \emph{F1-Measure} returns a
were actually predicted as Waldo. In the case of a classifier that combination of precision and recall that heavily penalizes classifiers that
classifies all things as Waldo, the recall would be 0. \emph{F1-Measure} perform poorly in either precision or recall.
returns a combination of precision and recall that heavily penalizes
classifiers that perform poorly in either precision or recall.
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\section{Results} \label{sec:results} \section{Results} \label{sec:results}