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Not so naive Bayesian classification

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Zoubin Ghahramani .

Machine learning is classically conceived as search through a hypothesis space for a hypothesis that best fits the training data. In contrast, naive Bayes performs no search, extrapolating an estimate of a high-order conditional probability by composition from lower-order conditional probabilities. In this talk I show how this searchless approach can be generalised, creating a family of learners that provide a principled method for controlling the bias/variance trade-off. At one extreme very low variance can be achieved as appropriate for small data. Bias can be decreased with larger data in a manner that ensure Bayes optimal asymptotic error. These algorithms havethe desirable properties of
  • training time that is linear with respect to training set size,
  • learning rom a single pass through the data,
  • allowing incremental learning,
  • supporting parallel and anytime classification,
  • providing direct prediction of class probabilities,
  • supporting direct handling of missing values, and
  • robust handling of noise.

Despite being generative, they deliver classification accuracy competitive with state-of-the-art discriminative techniques.

This talk is part of the Machine Learning @ CUED series.

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