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What is a target value?

Nov 01, 2018

In machine-learning, a target value is an output value to a supervised learning problem.

Indeed, in typical scenarios, the dataset (S) consists of pairs (xn,yn) where xn is a D-dimensional vector of inputs and yn is called the output value.

S={(xn,yn)nN}

Other names for the output values are:

  • targets,
  • labels,
  • responses,
  • outcomes,
  • dependent variables,
  • endogenous variables,
  • measured variables,
  • regressands.