---
license: mit
metrics:
- accuracy
library_name: keras
---
# Pottery Classification Model

## Model Description
- **Task**: Multiclass Ceramic Pottery Classification
- **Architecture**: Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)
- **Input Features**: 95 archaeological ceramic features
- **Output Classes**: 9 distinct pottery types

## Model Details
- **Performance**: 99.31% Test Accuracy
- **Test Loss**: 0.0376
- **Training Epochs**: 500
- **Batch Size**: 256

## Dataset

**Name**: Ceramics: Temporal-Spatial Dataset
**Year**: 1988
**Source**: Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
**Identifier**: 
- tDAR ID: 6039
- DOI: 10.6067/XCV8TD9WNB

**Description**: 
Archaeological ceramic dataset containing 95 features across 9 distinct pottery types, collected to analyze spatial and temporal characteristics of ceramic artifacts.

**Features**: 
- Total features: 95 after encoding
- Feature selection process: Detailed in companion [EDA Notebook](https://github.com/samanthajmichael/deep_learning/blob/main/deep_learning/Assignments/pottery_classifier/notebooks/01_EDA.ipynb)

| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| firing | Firing atmosphere |
| temper | Type of temper used |
| manipul | Surface manipulation |
| compact | Surface compaction |
| color | Paint colors used |
| pnttype | Paint type (organic, mineral, clay) |
| cover | Surface slips/coatings |
| ware | Manufacturing technique groups |
| form | Vessel shape/type |
|culcat|Cultural Category|

**Classes**: 9 pottery types

## Training Methodology
- **Optimizer**: Adam
- **Learning Rate**: Initial 0.01 with exponential decay
- **Regularization**: 
  - He Weight Initialization
  - L2 Regularization
  - Early Stopping

## Intended Use
- Archaeological ceramic type classification
- Research in archaeological artifact analysis
- Pottery provenance studies

## Limitations
- Trained on a specific archaeological dataset
- Performance may vary with different ceramic collections
- Requires careful preprocessing of input features

## Citation
If you use this model, please cite:
samanthajmichael/2025

## License
MIT