Keras model to focus on different metrics?

Question

When using the model.compile() attribute, does it matter what metric I place in there? For example, would model.complie(metric='accuracy') focus on increasing accuracy vs model.compile(metrics=[tf.keras.metrics.Precision()]) focusing on Precision? Or do these just state what shows during the epoch training?

Answer 1

Here are the docs for the Model.compile method.

The loss parameter is the objective function whereas the metrics parameter is a "list of metrics to be evaluated by the model during training and testing".

So your second interpretation is correct.