Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
Reality.
The thing that actually happened.
For example, consider a binary classification model that predicts whether a student in their first year of university will graduate within six years. Ground truth for this model is whether or not that student actually graduated within six years.
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For example, consider a binary classification model that predicts whether a student in their first year of university will graduate within six years. Ground truth for this model is whether or not that student actually graduated within six years.
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A medical AI team relies on expert radiologist labels as ground truth to evaluate its tumor detection model before clinical pilots.
A search-quality team uses human relevance labels as ground truth when retraining its production ranker.
A retail forecasting team uses actual sales as ground truth to compute forecast accuracy by SKU each week.
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