Questions tagged [naive-bayes]
For questions related to the naive Bayes, which is a machine learning (or statistics) technique that is based on the Bayes' theorem.
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Doesn't every single machine learning classifier use conditional probability/Bayes in its underlying assumptions?
I'm reading about how Conditional Probability/ Bayes Theorem is used in Naive Bayes in Intro to Statistical Learning, but it seems like it isn't that "groundbreaking" as it is described?
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How to predict the rating of a text review and improve it?
Why is it better to treat the rating prediction of a text review as a regression problem rather than a classification one? Is it because the ratings (1,2,3,4,5) are ordinal variables?
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Given A and B, C are independent of each other. Given A, B and C, D and E are independent of each other. What is the minimal number of parameters?
Assuming all variables $A, B, C, D,$ and $E$ are random binary variables. I come up with Bayes net: $D \rightarrow B \rightarrow A \leftarrow C \leftarrow E$ which has the minimal number of parameters ...
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How would the probability of a document $P(d)$ be computed in the Naive Bayes classifier?
In naive Bayes classification, we estimate the class of a document as follows
$$\hat{c} = \arg \max_{c \in C} P(c \mid d) = \arg \max_{c \in C} \dfrac{ P(d \mid c)P(c) }{P(d)} $$
It has been said in ...
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Is it ok to have an accuracy of 65% and a sensitivity of 90% with Naive Bayes for sentiment analysis?
I am creating a sentiment analysis model using Naive Bayes. When I test the model, I get an average accuracy of 65%; however, the sensitivity of the model is much higher, 90%.
So, I am wondering if ...
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How can I apply naive Bayes classifier for three classes (Positive, Negative and Neutral) in text data?
I found a naive Bayes classifier for positive sentiment or a negative sentiment Citius: A Naive-Bayes Strategy for Sentiment Analysis on English Tweets. But with most available datasets online, ...
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$\frac{P(x_1 \mid y, s = 1) \dots P(x_n \mid y, s = 1) P(y \mid s = 1)}{P(x \mid s = 1)}$ indicates that naive Bayes learners are global learners?
I am currently studying the paper Learning and Evaluating Classifiers under Sample Selection Bias by Bianca Zadrozny. In section 3. Learning under sample selection bias, the author says the following:
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Why don't ensembling, bagging and boosting help to improve accuracy of Naive bayes classifier?
You might think to apply some classifier combination techniques like ensembling, bagging and boosting but these methods would not help. Actually, “ensembling, boosting, bagging” won’t help since their ...
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Are there any examples of state-of-the-art NLP applications that are still n-gram based and use Naive Bayes?
As far as I can tell, most NLP tasks today use word embeddings and recurrent networks or transformers.
Are there any examples of state-of-the-art NLP applications that are still n-gram based and use ...
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How can the expectation-maximization improve the classification?
I am learning the expectation-maximization algorithm from the article Semi-Supervised Text Classification Using
EM. The algorithm is very interesting. However, the algorithm looks like doing a ...
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Understanding how to calculate $P(x|c_k)$ for the Bernoulli naïve Bayes classifier
I'm looking at the Bernoulli naïve Bayes classifier on Wikipedia and I understand Bayes theorem along with Gaussian naïve Bayes. However, when looking at how $P(x|c_k)$ is calculated, I don't ...
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What is the meaning of test data set in naive bayes classifier or decision trees?
What is the benefit of a test data set, especially for naive bayes estimator or decision tree construction?
When using a naive bayes classifier the probabilities are a fact. As far as I know there is ...
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Why do Bayesian algorithms work well with small datasets?
I read very often that Bayesian algorithms work well on small datasets. Why is that? I think it is because they might generalize more, but why is that?
See also Investigating the use of Bayesian ...
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What to do when PDFs are not Gaussian/Normal in Naive Bayes Classifier
While analyzing the data for a given problem set, I came across a few distributions which are not Gaussian in nature. They are not even uniform or Gamma distributions(so that I can write a function, ...
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What is the relationship between MLE and naive Bayes?
I have found various references describing Naive Bayes and they all demonstrated that it used MLE for the calculation. However, this is my understanding:
$P(y=c|x)$ $\propto$ $P(x|y=c)P(y=c)$
with $...
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My Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier is too slow
I am trying to build a film review classifier where I determine if a given review is positive or negative (w/ Python). I'm trying to avoid any other ML libraries so that I can better understand the ...
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Why is my calculation of the probability of an object being in a certain class incorrect?
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there is the probability with the Naive Bayes algorithm of:
Fem:dv/m/s Young own Ex-credpaid Good ->62%
I calculated the probability so:
$$P(Fem:dv/m/s \mid Good) * P(Young ...
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Why do I get small probabilities when implementing a multinomial naive Bayes text classification model?
When applying multinomial Naive Bayes text classification, I get very small probabilities (around $10e^{-48}$), so there's no way for me to know which classes are valid predictions and which ones are ...
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Why would LDA have performed much better than SVM and Naive Bayes in diagnosing ADHD?
In a final project in diagnosing Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using Machine Learning, we obtained parameters from real patients. We used this data and got much higher success rates ...
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Why is the denominator ignored in the Bayes' rule?
The naïve Bayes' generative algorithm is often represented by the following formula:
$$\text{argmax}_{y} p(y|x) = \text{argmax}_y \frac{p(x|y)p(y)}{p(x)} \approx \text{argmax}_y p(x|y)p(y)$$
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Is logistic regression more free from the conditional independence assumption than naive Bayes?
To my understanding, logistic regression is an extension of naive Bayes.
Suppose $X = \{x_1, x_2, \dots, x_N \}$ and $Y = \{0, 1\}$, each $x_i$ is i.i.d and $P(x_i \mid Y=y_k) \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu, \...
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What are the main differences between a perceptron and a naive Bayes classifier?
What are the main differences between a perceptron and a naive Bayes classifier?
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What is the most effective way to build a classifier?
At the moment, I am working on a project which requires me to build a naive Bayes classifier. Right now, I have a form online asking for people to submit a sentence and the subject of the sentence, in ...
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