Machine Learning Intermediate
true positive
An example in which the model correctly predicts the positive class.
Plain English Explanation
An example in which the model correctly predicts the positive class. For example, the model infers that a particular email message is spam, and that email message really is spam.
How is it used?
Practitioners refer to true positive when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.