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2025-09-26 at 08:05
Optimize the Right Thing: Cost-Sensitive Classification in Practice
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PyData Amsterdam 2025
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Not all mistakes in machine learning are equal—a false negative in fraud detection or medical diagnosis can be far costlier than a false positive. Cost-sensitive learning helps navigate these trade-offs by incorporating error costs into the training process, leading to smarter decision-making. This talk introduces Empulse, an open-source Python package that brings cost-sensitive learning into scikit-learn. Attendees will learn why standard models fall short in cost-sensitive scenarios and how to build better classifiers with Scikit-Learn and Empulse.