Reason of having high AUC and low accuracy in a balanced dataset
问题 Given a balanced dataset (size of both classes are the same), fitting it into an SVM model I yield a high AUC value (~0.9) but a low accuracy (~0.5). I have totally no idea why would this happen, can anyone explain this case for me? 回答1: I recently stumbled upon the same question. Here is what I figured out for myself - let me know if I'm wrong. Before we ponder why the area under the ROC curve (AUC) can be high while accuracy is low, let's first recapitulate the meanings of these terms. The