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The area under the curve (AUC) of summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve is a primary statistical outcome for meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies (DTA). However, its confidence interval has not been reported in…

Applications · Statistics 2022-08-02 Hisashi Noma , Yuki Matsushima , Ryota Ishii

Matrix multiplication is a core operation in numerous applications, yet its exact computation becomes prohibitively expensive as data scales, especially in streaming environments where timeliness is critical. In many real-world scenarios,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haoming Xian , Qintian Guo , Jun Zhang , Sibo Wang

We explore clustering problems in the streaming sliding window model in both general metric spaces and Euclidean space. We present the first polylogarithmic space $O(1)$-approximation to the metric $k$-median and metric $k$-means problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Vladimir Braverman , Harry Lang , Keith Levin , Morteza Monemizadeh

The predictive quality of machine learning models is typically measured in terms of their (approximate) expected prediction accuracy or the so-called Area Under the Curve (AUC). Minimizing the reciprocals of these measures are the goals of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-04 Hiva Ghanbari , Minhan Li , Katya Scheinberg

The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC) evaluates the separation between patients and nonpatients or discrimination. For risk prediction models these risk distributions can be derived from the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-23 Ralph H. Stern

Calculating the correlation in a sliding window is a common method of statistical evaluation of the interconnect between two sets of data. And although the calculation of a single correlation coefficient is not resource-intensive and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Alexey Poyda , Mikhail Zhizhin

Many typical applications of object detection operate within a prescribed false-positive range. In this situation the performance of a detector should be assessed on the basis of the area under the ROC curve over that range, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Sakrapee Paisitkriangkrai , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Scoring functions are used to evaluate and compare partially probabilistic forecasts. We investigate the use of rank-sum functions such as empirical Area Under the Curve (AUC), a widely-used measure of classification performance, as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Simon Byrne

High order cumulant tensors carry information about statistics of non-normally distributed multivariate data. In this work we present a new efficient algorithm for calculation of cumulants of arbitrary order in a sliding window for data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Krzysztof Domino , Piotr Gawron

The selective classifier (SC) has been proposed for rank based uncertainty thresholding, which could have applications in safety critical areas such as medical diagnostics, autonomous driving, and the justice system. The Area Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Han Zhou , Jordy Van Landeghem , Teodora Popordanoska , Matthew B. Blaschko

We consider time-space tradeoffs for exactly computing frequency moments and order statistics over sliding windows. Given an input of length 2n-1, the task is to output the function of each window of length n, giving n outputs in total.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Paul Beame , Raphael Clifford , Widad Machmouchi

The $k$-center problem requires the selection of $k$ points (centers) from a given metric pointset $W$ so to minimize the maximum distance of any point of $W$ from the closest center. This paper focuses on a fair variant of the problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Francesco Visonà

The Area Under Curve measure (AUC) seems apt to evaluate and compare diverse models, possibly without calibration. An important example of AUC application is the evaluation and benchmarking of models that predict faithfulness of generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Juri Opitz

In contemporary data analysis, it is increasingly common to work with non-stationary complex data sets. These data sets typically extend beyond the classical low-dimensional Euclidean space, making it challenging to detect shifts in their…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Rohit Kanrar , Feiyu Jiang , Zhanrui Cai

Adequate evaluation of an information retrieval system to estimate future performance is a crucial task. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) is widely used to evaluate the generalization of a retrieval system. However, the objective function…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Sean J. Welleck

Assessment of risk prediction models has primarily utilized measures of discrimination, the ROC curve AUC and C-statistic. These derive from the risk distributions of patients and nonpatients, which in turn are derived from a population…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Ralph H. Stern

Optimal performance is critical for decision-making tasks from medicine to autonomous driving, however common performance measures may be too general or too specific. For binary classifiers, diagnostic tests or prognosis at a timepoint,…

Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC-ROC) is a popular evaluation metric for binary classifiers. In this paper, we discuss techniques to segment the AUC-ROC along human-interpretable dimensions. AUC-ROC is not an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Arya Tafvizi , Besim Avci , Mukund Sundararajan

Background: Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are widely used to evaluate the performance of Software Defect Prediction (SDP) models that estimate module fault-proneness, i.e., the probability that a module is faulty. A ROC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Luigi Lavazza , Gabriele Rotoloni , Sandro Morasca

We study index-based processing for connectivity queries within sliding windows on streaming graphs. These queries, which determine whether two vertices belong to the same connected component, are fundamental operations in real-time graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Chao Zhang , Angela Bonifati , M. Tamer Özsu