Dynamic Dimensionality Selection for Bayesian Classifier Ensembles

Abstract

This project seeked to develop new learning algorithms specifically tailored to be efficient and effective in learning from big data. It exploited the capacity of generative learning to efficiently extract useful summary statistics and used discriminative learning to meld them into a highly accurate classifier. Two classes of learning algorithm were developed. The first uses discriminative learning to select a generative model (selective ANDE and selective KDB). Very effective feature selection was achieved with a single pass through the training data for each attribute that is finally selected. The second combines generatively and discriminatively learned parameters (WANBIA, WANBIA-C,WANJE). It uses discriminative learning of weights in an otherwise generatively learned naive Bayes classifier. WANBIA-C is very competitive to Logistic Regression but much more efficient in learning the model. WNANJE can model higher-order attribute interdependencies.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 2015
Accession Number
ADA614917

Entities

People

  • Geoffrey Webb
  • Mark Carman

Organizations

  • Monash University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Big Data
  • Computational Complexity
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Estimators
  • Feature Selection
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Models
  • Neural Networks
  • Probability
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks