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Classification — Glossary

A supervised task that assigns inputs to discrete categories.

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Binary, multiclass, and multilabel settings need different metrics and losses. Thresholds should reflect the relative cost of false positives vs false negatives.

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Classification — Classification is a supervised learning task that assigns inputs to discrete categories, such as spam vs. not-spam or disease present vs. absent.

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