on discriminative vs. generative classifiers: naïve bayes presenter : seung hwan, bae

On Discriminative vs. Gener-ative classifiers: Naïve Bayes

Presenter : Seung Hwan, Bae

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Andrew Y. Ng and Michael I. JordanNeural Information Processing System (NIPS),

2001 (slides adapted from Ke Chen from University of Manchester

and YangQiu Song from MSRA)Total Citation: 831

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Machine Learning

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Training classifiers involves estimating f: X->Y, or P(Y|X)– X: Training data, Y: Labels

Discriminative classifiers(also called ‘infor-mative’ by Rubinstein & Hastie):– Assume some functional form from for P(Y|X)– Estimate parameters of P(Y|X) directly from training data

Generative classifier– Assume some functional from for P(X|Y), P(X)– Estimate parameters of P(X|Y), P(X) directly from train-

ing data– Use Bayes rule to calculate

Generative vs. Discriminative Classi-fiers

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Bayes Formula

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Generative Model

• Color• Size• Texture• Weight• …

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Discriminative Model

Logistic Regression

• Color• Size• Texture• Weight• …

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Generative models– Assume some functional form for P(X|Y), P(Y)– Estimate parameters of P(X|Y), P(Y) directly from training

data– Use Bayes rule to calculate P(Y|X=x)

Discriminative models– Directly assume some functional form for P(Y|X)– Estimate parameters of P(Y|X) directly from training data

Comparison

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Probability Basics

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– Conditional probability: – Joint probability: – Relationship:– Independence:

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Establishing a probabilistic model for classi-fication– Discriminative model

Probabilistic Classification

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MAP classification rule– MAP: Maximum A Posterior– Assign x to c* if

Generative classification with the MAP rule– Apply Bayesian rule to convert them into posterior prob-

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Bayes classification

- Difficulty: learning the joint probability

- If the number of feature n is large or when a feature can take on a large number of values, then basing such a model on probability tables is infeasible.

Naïve Bayes

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Naïve Bayes classification– Assume that all input attributes are conditionally inde-

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Naïve Bayes Algorithm (for discrete input attributes)– Learning phase: Given a train set S,

Output: conditional probability tables; for elements

– Test phase: Given an unknown instance Look up tables to assign the label c* to X’ if

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Example

• Example: Play Tennis

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Learning phase

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Violation of Independent Assumption– For many real world tasks,– Nevertheless, naïve Bayes works surprisingly well any-

way! Zero conditional probability problem

– In no example contains the attribute value– In this circumstance, during test– For a remedy, conditional probabilities estimated with

Relevant Issues

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Continuous-valued Input Attributes– Numberless vales for an attribute– Conditional probability modeled with the normal distribu-

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Naïve Bayes based on the independent as-sumption– A small amount of training data to estimate parameters

(means and variances of the variable)– Only the variances of variables for each class need to be

determined and not the entire covariance matrix– Test is straightforward; just looking up tables or calculat-

ing conditional probabilities with normal distribution

Advantages of Naïve Bayes

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Performance competitive to most of state-of-art classifiers even in presence of violat-ing independence assumption

Many successful application, e.g., spam mail fitering

A good candidate of a base learner in en-semble learning

Apart from classification, naïve Bayes can do more…

Conclusion

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