Supervised Learning

Some notes on supervised learning

Metrics

Precision and Recall

Precision is (# correct) / (# predictions) or (true positive) / (true positive + false positive).
Recall is (# correct) / (# ground truth) or (true positive) / (true positive + false negative).

Precision measures how good your model is at negatives. 1.0 precision means the model did misidentify any negatives but may have missed some positives.
Recall measure how good your model is at identifying all the positive examples. 1.0 recall means your model identified all the positives.
Recall is also known as sensitivity.

F1 = 2 * precision * recall / (precision + recall)

Precision Recall Curve

1. Take all of the predictions and rank them by confidence.
2. Go down the predictions and compute the precision and recall.
   • The recall will go up since you capture more and more values with more predictions.
   • However the precision will go down since lower-confidence predictions are less likely to be correct.

The area under the curve (AUC) is the average precision.
Mean average precision (mAP) is the average AP over all classes.