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Binary Classifier

The document discusses binary classification and multiclass classification. Binary classification refers to classifying elements into two classes, while multiclass classification can classify elements into more than two classes. Some examples of binary classification include spam detection and churn prediction, while examples of multiclass classification include face classification and plant species classification. There are also different algorithms that can be used for each type of classification.

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Binary Classifier

The document discusses binary classification and multiclass classification. Binary classification refers to classifying elements into two classes, while multiclass classification can classify elements into more than two classes. Some examples of binary classification include spam detection and churn prediction, while examples of multiclass classification include face classification and plant species classification. There are also different algorithms that can be used for each type of classification.

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Term Related to binary classification

1. PRECISION
Precision in binary classification (Yes/No) refers to a model's ability to
correctly interpret positive observations. In other words, how often does a
positive value forecast turn out to be correct? We may manipulate this metric
by only returning positive for the single observation in which we have the
most confidence.

2. RECALL

The recall is also known as sensitivity. In binary classification (Yes/No)


recall is used to measure how “sensitive” the classifier is to detecting positive
cases. To put it another way, how many real findings did we “catch” in our
sample? We may manipulate this metric by classifying both results as
positive.

3. F1 SCORE

The F1 score can be thought of as a weighted average of precision and recall,


with the best value being 1 and the worst being 0. Precision and recall also
make an equal contribution to the F1 ranking.

Multiclass Classification

Multi-class classification is the task of classifying elements into different classes.


Unlike binary, it doesn’t restrict itself to any number of classes.

Examples of multi-class classification are


 classification of news in different categories,
 classifying books according to the subject,
 classifying students according to their streams etc.

In these, there are different classes for the response variable to be classified in and
thus according to the name, it is a Multi-class classification.

Can a classification possess both binary or multi-class?

Let us suppose we have to do sentiment analysis of a person, if the classes are just
“positive” and “negative”, then it will be a problem of binary class. But if the
classes are “sadness”, happiness”, “disgusting”, “depressed”, then it will be called
a problem of Multi-class classification.

Binary vs Multiclass Classification

Parameters Binary classification Multi-class classification

It is a classification of two There can be any number of


No. of groups, i.e. classifies classes in it, i.e., classifies the
classes objects in at most two object into more than two
classes. classes.

Algorithms The most popular Popular algorithms that can be


used algorithms used by the used for multi-class
binary classification are- classification include:
 k-Nearest Neighbors
 Logistic Regression
 Decision Trees
 k-Nearest Neighbors
 Decision Trees  Naive Bayes
 Support Vector  Random Forest.
Machine  Gradient Boosting
 Naive Bayes

Examples of binary
classification include-
Examples of multi-class
 Email spam
classification include:
detection (spam or
 Face classification.
not).
Examples  Plant species
 Churn prediction
classification.
(churn or not).
 Optical character
 Conversion
recognition.
prediction (buy or
not).
2 methods by which we can implement a multiclass classifier using binary classifier :

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