thinQmaster Virtual testing partner Adaptive practice exams that find your weak spots and drill them. Every answer explained. From $69
Enroll

thinQmaster

Find your exam

Five questions free, before you decide.

Step 1 · choose a vendor

In one of our camps? Your practice exams come with the tuition — they are on your study page already.

AI & Machine Learning · Intermediate

Discriminative Model

A model that learns the boundary between classes, estimating P(label | input).

Definition

Discriminative models such as logistic regression, SVMs and most classifiers focus on predicting labels rather than modeling how data is generated. Generative models instead learn the data distribution and can sample new examples.

Exam tip

Classifier = discriminative; content creator = generative.

Related terms