Classification: Summary
Bayesian networks provide a useful language to improve Bayesian classifiers
- Lesson: we need to be aware of the task at hand, the amount of training data vs dimensionality of the problem, etc
Additional benefits
- Missing values
- Compute the tradeoffs involved in finding out feature values
- Compute misclassification costs
Recent progress:
- Combine generative probabilistic models, such as Bayesian networks, with decision surface approaches such as Support Vector Machines