A classifier can achieve 99% accuracy on a dataset while having an F1 score of 0 for the minority class if it predicts every example as the majority class. When evaluating a machine learning classification model, two metrics appear again and again: accuracy and F1 score . Both can be useful, but they answer different questions about model performance. Accuracy measures the proportion of all predictions that are correct. F1 score combines precision and recall into a single metric, making it particularly useful when you need to understand how well a model identifies a specific positive class. This difference becomes especially important when your dataset is imbalanced. A model can appear highly accurate simply because it correctly predicts the majority class while performing poorly on the minority class. If you are new to classification metrics, it is helpful to first understand the confusion matrix in machine learning . The confusion matrix provide...
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