Uniqueness of a Bayes classifier

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Uniqueness of a Bayes classifier by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A binary Bayes classifier under zero-one loss is unique up to null sets when the posterior class probabilities tie only on a null set. For two distinct nonsingular Gaussian distributions, the tie set is the zero set of a nonzero quadratic polynomial and has Lebesgue measure zero.

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