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Automation of test oracles is one of the most challenging facets of software testing, but remains comparatively less addressed compared to automated test input generation. Test oracles rely on a ground-truth that can distinguish between the…

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In machine learning (ML), a widespread claim is that the area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) is a superior metric for model comparison to the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) for tasks with class imbalance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Matthew B. A. McDermott , Haoran Zhang , Lasse Hyldig Hansen , Giovanni Angelotti , Jack Gallifant

In this paper we consider the problem of maximizing the Area under the ROC curve (AUC) which is a widely used performance metric in imbalanced classification and anomaly detection. Due to the pairwise nonlinearity of the objective function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying

Link prediction is a paradigmatic and challenging problem in network science, which attempts to uncover missing links or predict future links, based on known topology. A fundamental but still unsolved issue is how to choose proper metrics…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-03-22 Tao Zhou

While there has been a growing research interest in developing out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods, there has been comparably little discussion around how these methods should be evaluated. Given their relevance for safe(r) AI, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux , Sergio Escalera , Thomas B. Moeslund

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses the critical challenge of training accurate models when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. Graph-based SSL (GSSL) has emerged as a popular framework that captures data structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Nadav Katz , Ariel Jaffe

The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve of a binary classifier has often been utilized to measure the performance of the classifier. The area beneath this curve is used in particular because of its quoted probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Steven Redolfi

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are plots of true positive rate versus false positive rate which are used to evaluate binary classification algorithms. Because the Area Under the Curve (AUC) is a constant function of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Kyle R. Rust , Toby D. Hocking

Whilst the size and complexity of ML models have rapidly and significantly increased over the past decade, the methods for assessing their performance have not kept pace. In particular, among the many potential performance metrics, the ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Michael Roberts , Alon Hazan , Sören Dittmer , James H. F. Rudd , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The Partial Area Under the ROC Curve (PAUC), typically including One-way Partial AUC (OPAUC) and Two-way Partial AUC (TPAUC), measures the average performance of a binary classifier within a specific false positive rate and/or true positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Huiyang Shao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Shilong Bao , Qingming Huang

We study fairness in the context of classification where the performance is measured by the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic. AUC is commonly used to measure the performance of prediction models. The same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Hortense Fong , Vineet Kumar , Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve and the Area Under the Curve (AUC) of the ROC curve are widely used to compare the performance of diagnostic and prognostic assays. The ROC curve has the advantage that it is independent of…

The area under the ROC curve (AUC) is a widely used performance measure in machine learning. Increasingly, however, in several applications, ranging from ranking to biometric screening to medicine, performance is measured not in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Harikrishna Narasimhan , Shivani Agarwal

The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is a well-known metric for evaluating instance-level long-tail learning problems. In the past two decades, many AUC optimization methods have been proposed to improve model performance under long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Boyu Han , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Shilong Bao , Peisong Wen , Yangbangyan Jiang , Qingming Huang

Positive Unlabeled (PU) learning is widely used in many applications, where a binary classifier is trained on the datasets consisting of only positive and unlabeled samples. In this paper, we improve PU learning over state-of-the-art from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Liwei Jiang , Dan Li , Qisheng Wang , Shuai Wang , Songtao Wang

Label assignment plays a significant role in modern object detection models. Detection models may yield totally different performances with different label assignment strategies. For anchor-based detection models, the IoU (Intersection over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Tianxiao Zhang , Bo Luo , Ajay Sharda , Guanghui Wang

We consider the problem of quantifying the quality of a model selection problem for a graphical model. We discuss this by formulating the problem as a detection problem. Model selection problems usually minimize a distance between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi , Anthony Kuh

The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is a widely employed metric in long-tailed classification scenarios. Nevertheless, most existing methods primarily assume that training and testing examples are drawn i.i.d. from the same distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Siran Dai , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

To measure bias, we encourage teams to consider using AUC Gap: the absolute difference between the highest and lowest test AUC for subgroups (e.g., gender, race, SES, prior knowledge). It is agnostic to the AI/ML algorithm used and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jinsook Lee , Chris Brooks , Renzhe Yu , Rene Kizilcec

The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is a key metric for classification, especially under class imbalance, with growing research focus on optimizing AUC over accuracy in applications like medical image analysis and deepfake detection. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mingyang Wu , Li Lin , Wenbin Zhang , Xin Wang , Zhenhuan Yang , Shu Hu