Classical ML
PR-AUC
Area under the precision–recall curve; equivalently average precision.
Why interviewers ask about it
ROC-AUC's FPR denominator is dominated by the huge negative class under imbalance and barely moves. PR-AUC's baseline is the positive rate, so judge it as lift over prevalence.
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