Baseline

How it is used

Used in modelling ('beat the baseline'), experiments ('baseline conversion rate') and reporting ('compared with the baseline'). You set or establish a baseline and measure against it. A model that cannot beat a simple baseline is not useful.

Example sentences

1. Our baseline is simply predicting last week's sales for every store.

2. The baseline conversion rate is 2%, and we want to be able to detect a rise to 2.3%.

Common collocations

• beat the baseline
• baseline model
• baseline conversion rate
• compared with the baseline
• set a baseline

Related terms

• modelThe result of training: a program with learned parameters that takes an input, such as an image or a sentence, and produces an output, such as a label, a number or a text.
• control groupThe group in an experiment that does not get the change being tested, so its results show what would have happened without that change.
• accuracyThe share of a model's predictions that are correct, out of all its predictions. A model with 90% accuracy is right on nine of every ten examples.
• metricA number measured regularly over time to show how a system is behaving, such as CPU use, memory, request count or error rate.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• baseline · Data Science & Analytics
• baseline · Product Management
• baseline · Nursing
• baseline · Environment & Climate
• baseline · Project Management
• baseline · Graphic Design

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting
• test set