Generative Models
Bayesian classifiers
- Induce a probability describing the data
- Impose a decision rule. Given a new object < f1,…,fn >
c = argmaxC P(C = c | f1,…,fn)
We have shifted the problem to learning P(F1,…,Fn,C)
Learn a Bayesian network representation for P(F1,…,Fn,C)