Binaryauroc

binaryauroc

Metric BinaryAUROC from torchmetrics (torchmetrics.classification.BinaryAUROC)

When to invoke this skill

The user has predictions + ground truth and asks to evaluate with BinaryAUROC, or mentions torchmetrics.classification.BinaryAUROC directly, or wants the standard torchmetrics implementation.

Reference signature

from torchmetrics.classification import BinaryAUROC

# BinaryAUROC(max_fpr: Optional[float] = None, thresholds: Union[int, list[float], torch.Tensor, NoneType] = None, ignore_index: Optional[int] = None, validate_args: bool = True, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Library docstring

Compute Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (`ROC AUC`_) for binary tasks.

The AUROC score summarizes the ROC curve into an single number that describes the performance of a model for
multiple thresholds at the same time. Notably, an AUROC score of 1 is a perfect score and an AUROC score of 0.5
corresponds to random guessing.

As input to ``forward`` and ``update`` the metric accepts the following input:

- ``preds`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): A float tensor of shape ``(N, ...)`` containing probabilities or logits for
  each observation. If preds has values outside [0,1] range we consider the input to be logits and will auto apply
  sigmoid per element.
- ``target`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): An int tensor of shape ``(N, ...)`` containing ground truth labels, and
  therefore only contain {0,1} values (except if `ignore_index` is specified). The value 1 always encodes the
  positive class.

As output to ``forward`` and ``compute`` the metric returns the following output:

- ``b_auroc`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): A single scalar with the auroc score.

Additional dimension ``...`` will be flattened into the batch dimension.

The implementation both supports calculating the metric in a non-binned but accurate version and a
binned version that is less accurate but more memory efficient. Setting the `thresholds` argument to `None` will
activate the non-binned  version that uses memory of size :math:`\mathcal{O}(n_{samples})` whereas setting the
`thresholds` argument to either an integer, list or a 1d tensor will use a binned version that uses memory of
size :math:`\mathcal{O}(n_{thresholds})` (constant memory).

Args:
    max_fpr: If not ``None``, calculates standardized partial AUC over the range ``[0, max_fpr]``.
    thresholds:
        Can be one of:

        - If set to `None`, will use a non-binned approach where thresholds are dynamically calculated from
          all the data. Most accurate but also most memory consuming approach.
        - If set to an `int` (larger than 1), will use that number of thresholds linearly spaced from
          0 to 1 as bins for the calculation.
        - If set to an `list` of floats, will use the indicated thres

Quick recipe

import torchmetrics.classification as _m
score = _m.BinaryAUROC(y_true, y_pred)

Don'ts

• Don't reimplement when the library version handles edge cases (NaN, ties, empty inputs) better than a hand-rolled formula.
• Always check the library version's argument order — sklearn is (y_true, y_pred) while torchmetrics is (preds, target).