Bayesian class-matched multinet classifier

  • Authors:
  • Yaniv Gurwicz;Boaz Lerner

  • Affiliations:
  • Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SSPR'06/SPR'06 Proceedings of the 2006 joint IAPR international conference on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A Bayesian multinet classifier allows a different set of independence assertions among variables in each of a set of local Bayesian networks composing the multinet. The structure of the local network is usually learned using a joint-probability-based score that is less specific to classification, i.e., classifiers based on structures providing high scores are not necessarily accurate. Moreover, this score is less discriminative for learning multinet classifiers because generally it is computed using only the class patterns and avoiding patterns of the other classes. We propose the Bayesian class-matched multinet (BCM2) classifier to tackle both issues. The BCM2 learns each local network using a detection-rejection measure, i.e., the accuracy in simultaneously detecting class patterns while rejecting patterns of the other classes. This classifier demonstrates superior accuracy to other state-of-the-art Bayesian network and multinet classifiers on 32 real-world databases.