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F1

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TL;DR. A metric balancing precision and recall for binary classification tasks.

Technical Definition

A metric balancing precision and recall for binary classification tasks.

How it works

The F1 score is a harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a single metric that balances the trade-off between these two important measures in binary classification. It is particularly useful when class distribution is uneven. The formula is 2 * (precision * recall) / (precision + recall).

Related Concepts

  • Precision — Of the items the model predicted positive, the fraction that are actually positive.
  • Recall — Of all the actually positive items, the fraction the model successfully found.
  • Binary classification — A machine learning task that categorizes input into one of two mutually exclusive classes, like 'spam' or 'not spam'.

Further Reading

  • Google ML Glossary