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Evaluation Metric

A quantitative measure of model performance on specific tasks, enabling objective assessment and comparison.

In more detail

Different tasks need different metrics. Classification: accuracy, precision, recall, F1, AUC. Regression: MAE, MSE, RMSE. NLP: BLEU, ROUGE, Perplexity. Choosing appropriate metrics is crucial for correct model assessment.

Examples

  • Accuracy for balanced classification
  • Precision-Recall for imbalanced data
  • BLEU for translation
  • Perplexity for language modeling

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