accuracy (in the context of classification) (de.: Genauigkeit (im Kontext Klassifikation))

Concerning classification in the field of AI, accuracy is a metric for measuring the quality of mostly binary classifications. It is calculated as the proportion of correct classifications in all classifications.

See also:

ISO/IEC TR 29119-11:2020 performance metric used to evaluate a classifier (3.1.21), which measures the proportion of classifications (3.1.20) predictions (3.1.56) that were correct

ISTQB - CTAI Syllabus The ML functional performance metric used to evaluate a classifier, which measures the proportion of predictions that were correct (After ISO/IEC TR 29119-11)

Source: AI-Glossary.org (https://www.ai-glossary.org), License of definition text (excl. standard references): CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed: 2024-11-21

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