# Binaryprecisionrecallcurve

> Compute the BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve metric — provided by torchmetrics. Use when the user has predictions and ground-truth and needs to compute BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve, or asks how to score with BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve.

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# binaryprecisionrecallcurve

> Metric `BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve` from `torchmetrics` (torchmetrics.classification.BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve)

## When to invoke this skill

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

## Reference signature

```python
from torchmetrics.classification import BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve

# BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve(thresholds: Union[int, list[float], torch.Tensor, NoneType] = None, ignore_index: Optional[int] = None, validate_args: bool = True, normalization: Optional[Literal['sigmoid', 'softmax']] = 'sigmoid', **kwargs: Any) -> None
```

## Library docstring

```
Compute the precision-recall curve for binary tasks.

The curve consist of multiple pairs of precision and recall values evaluated at different thresholds, such that the
tradeoff between the two values can been seen.

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

- ``preds`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): A float tensor of shape ``(N, ...)``. Preds should be a tensor 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, ...)``. Target should be a tensor 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.

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

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

- ``precision`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): if `thresholds=None` a list for each class is returned with an 1d
  tensor of size ``(n_thresholds+1, )`` with precision values (length may differ between classes). If `thresholds`
  is set to something else, then a single 2d tensor of size ``(n_classes, n_thresholds+1)`` with precision values
  is returned.
- ``recall`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): if `thresholds=None` a list for each class is returned with an 1d tensor
  of size ``(n_thresholds+1, )`` with recall values (length may differ between classes). If `thresholds` is set to
  something else, then a single 2d tensor of size ``(n_classes, n_thresholds+1)`` with recall values is returned.
- ``thresholds`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): if `thresholds=None` a list for each class is returned with an 1d
  tensor of size ``(n_thresholds, )`` with increasing threshold values (length may differ between classes). If
  `threshold` is set to something else, then a single 1d tensor of size ``(n_thresholds, )`` is returned with
  shared threshold values for all classes.

.. note::
   The implementation both supports calculating the metric in a non-binned but accurate version and a binned ve
```

## Quick recipe

```python
import torchmetrics.classification as _m
score = _m.BinaryPrecisionRecallCurve(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)`.