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Scalar versus 2-element output for binary classification models
When building a binary classification model using a neural network, you have two options for outputs: output a single number from 0 to 1 using sigmoid activation, or output a probability distribution ...
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Population of fixed size that evolves over time
Consider a population of fixed size where each member can in one of two classes. Although new elements will NEVER be added to the population over time, some of the existing elements may change value. ...
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Is it valid to resolve A/B tests earlier using usage data?
I have a piece of software where N% of users convert to a paid plan after a 2 week free trial. I train the model (random forest) to use the first 2 days of usage data to predict whether the user ...
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What are some good resources to read about recommendation systems to help build your own?
I am working on a content-based recommendation system. I am planning to frame this as a binary classification problem (1 = click/0 = not click). And I was looking for paper/readings on feature ...
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If my binary classifier results in a negative outcome, is it right to try again with another classifier which has the same FPR but higher recall?
I have two strings that represent two institutions. For instance, a1="University of Milan" a2="University Milan" or ...
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Much higher scoring metrics with classification_report than cross_validate
I'm training a classifier on the DAIGT dataset. The objective is to differentiate human from AI text and so this is a binary classification problem. As a baseline before I move onto an LLM classifier, ...
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Binary classification on small dataset
beginner of ML here. Can anyone tell me if it is advisable to apply ML models, specifically binary classification and using Pycaret on a dataset with 69 columns and 226 rows? it has columns for ...
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Binary Classifier's Output and Lua Torch
I am trying to reimplement a paper in PyTorch that was originally implemented in Lua. The model is a GAN, and I have a specific question with discriminator. The discriminator is trying to detect ...
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how to properly implement Random Undersampling during Cross-Validation in Orange
I am working on a highly imbalanced fraud detection dataset (class 0:284315 instances, class 1: 492 instances) and trying to implement random undersampling correctly during cross-validation in Orange. ...
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What does taking laplacian of a data set means?
I am using a small data set for an ML project and the data set consists of about 550 samples. I am doing binary classification. I was told to take laplacian of the data set and then do eigenvalue and ...
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Using keras metrics BinaryCrossentropy for a binary model
I'm trying to implement a binary classification model using tensorflow keras and stumbled over problem that I cannot grasp. My model shall classify images of houses in the two classes of "old/...
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Confidence levels and error rates in binary classification models
I am a beginner self-learning machine learning and I'm currently dealing with a binary classification problem. I made a binary classifier with a basic neural network and I did some experiments with ...
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Is it better to train a CNN model with bad images or good images when the testing data will be in bad quality?
This is a very general question so lets take a very general example: imagine a CNN model that distinguishes between dogs and cats facial features images. we have two kinds of training data set: one ...
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Correct way to compare results of binary classifiers with different sensitivities
I am comparing 5 third party classification models on a subset of results (specifically, false positives I am examining to find a common cause). The five models all output values between 0 and 1 but ...
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Why does SVM have a worse decision boundary than Logistic Regression?
I've run both SVM with Polynomial kernel with a degree of 3 and Logistic Regression with transformed features by PolynomialFeatures with the same degree of 3 on the default scikit-learn's Moons ...