Target Output

What is target output.

A target output is the true output or labels on a given dataset. The function that maps the input to its correct labels is called the target function. Therefore, the underlying goal of many machine learning methods is to produce a function that matches the target function as close as possible without giving up generalizability.  The target output can be used to compare the predictions of a model and determine its accuracy.

Example of Target Output

Consider a neural network that classifies images. This could be a classification like dog vs cat vs bird, +1 vs -1, and so on. Lets say our network classifies dogs, cats, and birds and that we have (in order) the following input:

target output in research

We need to classify each of these images to know if our neural network is correctly classifying them as well. In order, we classify each of these as follows:

[cat, cat, dog, bird, dog]

This array is called the “target array” and contains the target outputs . If our network were to predict [cat, dog, cat, bird, dog], this would be called the “predicted array” which contains the predicted outputs.

When the predicted and target arrays are compared, we see that the model correctty classified ⅗ of the inputs. This model, thus, has an  accuracy of 60% on this data set.

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