What is the ROC Curve and what is AUC (a.k.a. AUROC)?

The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) the performance plot for binary classifiers of True Positive Rate (y-axis) vs. False Positive Rate (x-
axis).

AUC is area under the ROC curve, and it’s a common performance metric for evaluating binary classification models.

It’s equivalent to the expected probability that a uniformly drawn random positive is ranked before a uniformly drawn random negative.