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What is classification? Email spam example.

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Classification

For What is classification? Email spam example., interviewers listen for a crisp definition, how the pieces interact in a real system, and one trade-off or failure mode you have seen or would guard against.

Predict discrete label—spam vs ham, fraud vs legit. Metrics: precision, recall, F1, ROC-AUC depending on class imbalance.

Email spam: false positive (good mail blocked) hurts UX—tune threshold.