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In mice, however, this relationship has not been quantitatively defined, and conventional classification often relies on subjective thresholds. Here, we combine\n                      <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                      intracellular recordings with supervised and unsupervised machine\u2010learning methods to test whether motoneuron electrophysiology can predict the physiological identity of mouse motor units. Unbiased clustering identified four groups corresponding to slow (S), fast fatigue\u2010resistant (FR), intermediate (FI) and fast fatigable (FF) types. A multinomial logistic regression model performed well, with most errors occurring between FI and FF types, which showed substantial overlap. Reducing the task to three classes improved accuracy. Feature selection revealed that four electrophysiological properties (input conductance, rheobase, afterhyperpolarization duration and maximal frequency) were sufficient for high predictive performance. 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