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Binary Classification by Regression: Decision Functions and Cost Functions

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EE-311: Fundamentals of machine learning

Ce cours présente une vue générale des techniques d'apprentissage automatique, passant en revue les algorithmes, le formalisme théorique et les protocoles expérimentaux. ...

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This lecture covers the concept of binary classification by regression, focusing on decision functions and cost functions. It explains how to regress labels to determine a decision function, the quality of this approximation, and different loss functions such as 0/1 cost, logistic cost, quadratic cost, and hinge error. The instructor also discusses the implications of these cost functions on linear regression for binary classification.

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Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

François Fleuret

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Statistics

Data analysis: Regression analysis

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