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function pr_curve

pr_curve(
    y_true: 'Iterable[T] | None' = None,
    y_probas: 'Iterable[numbers.Number] | None' = None,
    labels: 'list[str] | None' = None,
    classes_to_plot: 'list[T] | None' = None,
    interp_size: 'int' = 21,
    title: 'str' = 'Precision-Recall Curve',
    split_table: 'bool' = False
) → CustomChart
Constructs a Precision-Recall (PR) curve. The Precision-Recall curve is particularly useful for evaluating classifiers on imbalanced datasets. A high area under the PR curve signifies both high precision (a low false positive rate) and high recall (a low false negative rate). The curve provides insights into the balance between false positives and false negatives at various threshold levels, aiding in the assessment of a model’s performance. Args:
  • y_true: True binary labels. The shape should be (num_samples,).
  • y_probas: Predicted scores or probabilities for each class. These can be probability estimates, confidence scores, or non-thresholded decision values. The shape should be (num_samples, num_classes).
  • labels: Optional list of class names to replace numeric values in y_true for easier plot interpretation. For example, labels = ['dog', 'cat', 'owl'] will replace 0 with ‘dog’, 1 with ‘cat’, and 2 with ‘owl’ in the plot. If not provided, numeric values from y_true will be used.
  • classes_to_plot: Optional list of unique class values from y_true to be included in the plot. If not specified, all unique classes in y_true will be plotted.
  • interp_size: Number of points to interpolate recall values. The recall values will be fixed to interp_size uniformly distributed points in the range [0, 1], and the precision will be interpolated accordingly.
  • title: Title of the plot. Defaults to “Precision-Recall Curve”.
  • split_table: Whether the table should be split into a separate section in the W&B UI. If True, the table will be displayed in a section named “Custom Chart Tables”. Default is False.
Returns:
  • CustomChart: A custom chart object that can be logged to W&B. To log the chart, pass it to wandb.log().
Raises:
  • wandb.Error: If NumPy, pandas, or scikit-learn is not installed.
Example: 
import wandb

# Example for spam detection (binary classification)
y_true = [0, 1, 1, 0, 1]  # 0 = not spam, 1 = spam
y_probas = [
    [0.9, 0.1],  # Predicted probabilities for the first sample (not spam)
    [0.2, 0.8],  # Second sample (spam), and so on
    [0.1, 0.9],
    [0.8, 0.2],
    [0.3, 0.7],
]

labels = ["not spam", "spam"]  # Optional class names for readability

with wandb.init(project="spam-detection") as run:
    pr_curve = wandb.plot.pr_curve(
         y_true=y_true,
         y_probas=y_probas,
         labels=labels,
         title="Precision-Recall Curve for Spam Detection",
    )
    run.log({"pr-curve": pr_curve})