Is multi-class classification the same with categorical classification?

Question

I am working on a project with image classification with 5 different classes and I was wondering if categorical classification can be used as a synonym for multi-class classification.

PS. Forgive me for the naive question

Answer 1

Yeah, the answer is as simple as :

• Binary Classification means only 2 targets to find.

• Multilabel / Multiclass / Multinomial Classification means more than 2 targets to find.

In Supervised Learning, you will have :

• Classification (class of 0, 1 etc..)
• Regression (continuous values 84.2, 105.8 etc..)

Categorical and class means the same and are the opposite of Regression which are continuous variables

You can find example on https://scikit-learn.org/stable/supervised_learning.html#supervised-learning