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by Michele Laurelli

Classification

/ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Task
Definition

A supervised learning task where the goal is to predict discrete class labels for input data.

Classification assigns inputs to predefined categories. Binary classification has two classes, multi-class has more. Output is typically a probability distribution over classes.

Examples

1

Email spam vs not spam

2

Image classification (cat, dog, bird)

3

Disease diagnosis

Michele Laurelli - AI Research & Engineering