Learn Before
Concept

Error Category Fraction as a Ceiling on Possible Error Reduction

The fraction of misclassified examples that belong to a particular category is a ceiling—the maximum possible amount—on how much addressing that category alone could reduce the system's errors. For example, if only 5% of the misclassified images are dogs, then no matter how much dog-image performance is improved, no more than 5% of the errors can be removed, taking a 10% error rate down to at best about 9.5%. By contrast, if 50% of the mistakes are dogs, addressing them could potentially cut the error rate in half, for instance from 10% down to 5%.

0

1

Updated 2026-05-26

Contributors are:

Who are from:

Tags

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Supervised Learning

Dive into Deep Learning @ D2L

Data Science

Machine Learning Strategy

Related