On the Foundations of Noise-free Selective Classification
Ran El-Yaniv, Yair Wiener; 11(53):1605−1641, 2010.
Abstract
We consider selective classification, a term we adopt here to refer to 'classification with a reject option.' The essence in selective classification is to trade-off classifier coverage for higher accuracy. We term this trade-off the risk-coverage (RC) trade-off. Our main objective is to characterize this trade-off and to construct algorithms that can optimally or near optimally achieve the best possible trade-offs in a controlled manner. For noise-free models we present in this paper a thorough analysis of selective classification including characterizations of RC trade-offs in various interesting settings.
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