# Specificityatsensitivity

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

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# specificityatsensitivity

> Metric `SpecificityAtSensitivity` from `torchmetrics` (torchmetrics.SpecificityAtSensitivity)

## When to invoke this skill

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

## Reference signature

```python
from torchmetrics import SpecificityAtSensitivity

# SpecificityAtSensitivity(task: Literal['binary', 'multiclass', 'multilabel'], min_sensitivity: float, thresholds: Union[int, list[float], torch.Tensor, NoneType] = None, num_classes: Optional[int] = None, num_labels: Optional[int] = None, ignore_index: Optional[int] = None, validate_args: bool = True, **kwargs: Any) -> torchmetrics.metric.Metric
```

## Library docstring

```
Compute the highest possible specificity value given the minimum sensitivity thresholds provided.

This is done by first calculating the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve for different thresholds and the
find the specificity for a given sensitivity level.

This function is a simple wrapper to get the task specific versions of this metric, which is done by setting the
``task`` argument to either ``'binary'``, ``'multiclass'`` or ``'multilabel'``. See the documentation of
:class:`~torchmetrics.classification.BinarySpecificityAtSensitivity`,
:class:`~torchmetrics.classification.MulticlassSpecificityAtSensitivity` and
:class:`~torchmetrics.classification.MultilabelSpecificityAtSensitivity` for the specific details of each argument
influence and examples.
```

## Quick recipe

```python
import torchmetrics as _m
score = _m.SpecificityAtSensitivity(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)`.

