# Stacked Confusion Reject Plots (SCORE)

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17346 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.17346/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Machine Learning with a Reject Option: A survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.11277/) (2021)
- [Optimal strategies for reject option classifiers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.12523/) (2021)
- [Explaining Reject Options of Learning Vector Quantization Classifiers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.07244/) (2022)
- [Model Agnostic Local Explanations of Reject](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.07623/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Machine learning is more and more applied in critical application areas like health and driver assistance. To minimize the risk of wrong decisions, in such applications it is necessary to consider the certainty of a classification to reject uncertain samples. An established tool for this are reject curves that visualize the trade-off between the number of rejected samples and classification performance metrics. We argue that common reject curves are too abstract and hard to interpret by non-experts. We propose Stacked Confusion Reject Plots (SCORE) that offer a more intuitive understanding of the used data and the classifier's behavior. We present example plots on artificial Gaussian data to document the different options of SCORE and provide the code as a Python package.
