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Can training accuracy be 100%?
A statistical model that is complex enough (that has enough capacity) can perfectly fit to any learning dataset and obtain 100% accuracy on it. But by fitting perfectly to the training set, it will have poor performance on new data that are not seen during training (overfitting). Hence, it’s not what interests you.
What is a good accuracy rate?
Accuracy comes out to 0.91, or 91% (91 correct predictions out of 100 total examples). While 91% accuracy may seem good at first glance, another tumor-classifier model that always predicts benign would achieve the exact same accuracy (91/100 correct predictions) on our examples.
How is the accuracy of a neural network determined?
Ideally, one would expect the reduction of loss after each, or several, iteration(s). The accuracy of a model is usually determined after the model parameters are learned and fixed and no learning is taking place.
How are neural networks used in data science?
Neural networks are machine learning algorithms that provide state of the accuracy on many use cases. But, a lot of times the accuracy of the network we are building might not be satisfactory or might not take us to the top positions on the leaderboard in data science competitions.
Why is the tuning problem in neural networks expensive?
In the neural network tuning problem, the evaluation of the prediction error for a particular setting of the design parameters is a computationally expensive process. The reason for this is that, before being able to compute the validation error, we have to first train the neural network on large amounts of training data.
How is loss calculated in a neural network?
The loss is calculated on training and validation and its interperation is how well the model is doing for these two sets. Unlike accuracy, loss is not a percentage. It is a summation of the errors made for each example in training or validation sets.