NDLI: Learning Graphical Models for Hypothesis Testing and Classification

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Author	Tan, V.Y.F. Sanghavi, S. Fisher, J.W. Willsky, A.S.
Copyright Year	1991
Abstract	Sparse graphical models have proven to be a flexible class of multivariate probability models for approximating high-dimensional distributions. In this paper, we propose techniques to exploit this modeling ability for binary classification by discriminatively learning such models from labeled training data, i.e., using both positive and negative samples to optimize for the structures of the two models. We motivate why it is difficult to adapt existing generative methods, and propose an alternative method consisting of two parts. First, we develop a novel method to learn tree-structured graphical models which optimizes an approximation of the log-likelihood ratio. We also formulate a joint objective to learn a nested sequence of optimal forests-structured models. Second, we construct a classifier by using ideas from boosting to learn a set of discriminative trees. The final classifier can interpreted as a likelihood ratio test between two models with a larger set of pairwise features. We use cross-validation to determine the optimal number of edges in the final model. The algorithm presented in this paper also provides a method to identify a subset of the edges that are most salient for discrimination. Experiments show that the proposed procedure outperforms generative methods such as Tree Augmented Naïve Bayes and Chow-Liu as well as their boosted counterparts.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	5481
Ending Page	5495
Page Count	15
File Size	1401049
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1053587X
Volume Number	58
Issue Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Graphical models Testing Tree graphs Classification tree analysis Boosting Permission Laboratories Training data Optimization methods Conferences tree distributions classification graphical models structure learning
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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