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Classification: Alternative Techniques Lecture Notes for Chapter 5 Introduction to Data Mining by Tan, Steinbach, Kumar © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 1 Instance-Based Classifiers Set of Stored Cases Atr1 ……... AtrN Class A • Store the training records • Use training records to predict the class label of unseen cases B B C A Unseen Case Atr1 C B © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› ……... AtrN Instance Based Classifiers Examples: – Rote-learner Memorizes entire training data and performs classification only if attributes of record match one of the training examples exactly – Nearest neighbor Uses k “closest” points (nearest neighbors) for performing classification © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Basic idea: – If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck Compute Distance Training Records © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Test Record Choose k of the “nearest” records Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers Unknown record Requires three things – The set of stored records – Distance Metric to compute distance between records – The value of k, the number of nearest neighbors to retrieve To classify an unknown record: – Compute distance to other training records – Identify k nearest neighbors – Use class labels of nearest neighbors to determine the class label of unknown record (e.g., by taking majority vote) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Definition of Nearest Neighbor X (a) 1-nearest neighbor X X (b) 2-nearest neighbor (c) 3-nearest neighbor K-nearest neighbors of a record x are data points that have the k smallest distance to x © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest Neighbor Classification Compute distance between two points: – Euclidean distance d ( p, q ) ( pi i q ) 2 i Determine the class from nearest neighbor list – take the majority vote of class labels among the k-nearest neighbors – Weight the vote according to distance weight factor, w = 1/d2 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest Neighbor Classification… Choosing the value of k: – If k is too small, sensitive to noise points – If k is too large, neighborhood may include points from other classes X © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest Neighbor Classification… Scaling issues – Attributes may have to be scaled to prevent distance measures from being dominated by one of the attributes – Example: height of a person may vary from 1.5m to 1.8m weight of a person may vary from 90lb to 300lb income of a person may vary from $10K to $1M originalVa lue oldMin newValue oldMax oldMin © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Nearest neighbor Classification… k-NN classifiers are lazy learners – It does not build models explicitly – Unlike eager learners such as decision tree induction – Classifying unknown records are relatively expensive © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Example: PEBLS PEBLS: Parallel Examplar-Based Learning System (Cost & Salzberg) – Works with both continuous and nominal features For nominal features, distance between two nominal values is computed using modified value difference metric (MVDM) – Each record is assigned a weight factor – Number of nearest neighbor, k = 1 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Example: PEBLS Tid Refund Marital Status Taxable Income Cheat 1 Yes Single 125K No d(Single,Married) 2 No Married 100K No = | 2/4 – 0/4 | + | 2/4 – 4/4 | = 1 3 No Single 70K No d(Single,Divorced) 4 Yes Married 120K No 5 No Divorced 95K Yes 6 No Married No d(Married,Divorced) 7 Yes Divorced 220K No = | 0/4 – 1/2 | + | 4/4 – 1/2 | = 1 8 No Single 85K Yes d(Refund=Yes,Refund=No) 9 No Married 75K No = | 0/3 – 3/7 | + | 3/3 – 4/7 | = 6/7 10 No Single 90K Yes 60K Distance between nominal attribute values: = | 2/4 – 1/2 | + | 2/4 – 1/2 | = 0 10 Class Marital Status Single Married Divorced Yes 2 0 1 No 2 4 n 4 4 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Class Refund Yes No Yes 0 3 1 No 3 4 2 n 3 7 Introduction to Data Mining n1i n2i d (V1 ,V2 ) n1 n2 i ‹#› Example: PEBLS Tid Refund Marital Status Taxable Income Cheat X Yes Single 125K No Y No Married 100K No 10 Distance between record X and record Y: d ( X , Y ) wX wY d ( X i , Yi ) 2 i 1 where: Number of times X is used for prediction wX Number of times X predicts correctly wX 1 if X makes accurate prediction most of the time wX > 1 if X is not reliable for making predictions © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bayes Classifier A probabilistic framework for solving classification problems Joint Prob. Posterior Probability: P ( A, C ) P (C | A) P ( A) Prior P ( A, C ) P( A | C ) P (C ) Bayes theorem: P( A | C ) P(C ) P(C | A) P( A) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Prob. Example of Bayes Theorem Given: – A doctor knows that meningitis causes stiff neck 50% (0.5) of the time – Prior probability of any patient having meningitis is 1/50,000 – Prior probability of any patient having stiff neck is 1/20 If a patient has stiff neck, what’s the probability he/she has meningitis? P( S | M ) P( M ) 0.5 1 / 50000 P( M | S ) 0.0002 P( S ) 1 / 20 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bayesian Classifiers Given a record with attributes (A1, A2,…,An) – Goal is to predict class C – Specifically, we want to find the value of C that maximizes P(C| A1, A2,…,An ) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bayesian Classifiers Approach: – compute the posterior probability P(C | A1, A2, …, An) for all values of C using the Bayes theorem P( A A A | C ) P(C ) P(C | A A A ) P( A A A ) 1 1 2 2 n n 1 2 n – Choose value of C that maximizes P(C | A1, A2, …, An) – Equivalent to choosing value of C that maximizes P(A1, A2, …, An|C) P(C) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Naïve Bayes Classifier Assume independence among attributes Ai when class is given: – P(A1, A2, …, An |C) = P(A1| Cj) P(A2| Cj)… P(An| Cj) – Can estimate P(Ai| Cj) for all Ai and Cj. – New point is classified to Cj if P(Cj) P(Ai| Cj) is maximal. © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› How to Estimate Probabilities from Data? l l c Tid at Refund o eg a c i r c at o eg a c i r c on u it n s u o s s a cl Marital Status Taxable Income Evade 1 Yes Single 125K No 2 No Married 100K No 3 No Single 70K No 4 Yes Married 120K No 5 No Divorced 95K Yes 6 No Married 60K No 7 Yes Divorced 220K No 8 No Single 85K Yes 9 No Married 75K No 10 No Single 90K Yes Class: P(C) = Nc/N – e.g., P(No) = 7/10, P(Yes) = 3/10 For nominal attributes: P(Ai | Ck) = |Aik|/ Nc k – where |Aik| is number of instances having attribute Ai and belongs to class Ck – Examples: 10 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining P(Status=Married|No) = 4/7 P(Refund=Yes|Yes)=0 ‹#› How to Estimate Probabilities f or continues s al al u c c o ri ri u o o g tin attributes ss eg e? t t n a l a a c Tid Refund co c Marital Status Taxable Income c Evade 1 Yes Single 125K No 2 No Married 100K No 3 No Single 70K No 4 Yes Married 120K No 5 No Divorced 95K Yes 6 No Married 60K No 7 Yes Divorced 220K No 8 No Single 85K Yes 9 No Married 75K No 10 No Single 90K Yes Normal distribution: 1 P( A | c ) e 2 i j ( Ai ij ) 2 2 ij2 2 ij – One for each (Ai,ci) pair For (Income, Class=No): – If Class=No sample mean = 110 sample variance = 2975 10 1 P( Income 120 | No) e 2 (54.54) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ( 120110) 2 2 ( 2975) ‹#› 0.0072 Example of Naïve Bayes Classifier Given a Test Record: X (Refund No, Married, Income 120K) naive Bayes Classifier: P(Refund=Yes|No) = 3/7 P(Refund=No|No) = 4/7 P(Refund=Yes|Yes) = 0 P(Refund=No|Yes) = 1 P(Marital Status=Single|No) = 2/7 P(Marital Status=Divorced|No)=1/7 P(Marital Status=Married|No) = 4/7 P(Marital Status=Single|Yes) = 2/7 P(Marital Status=Divorced|Yes)=1/7 P(Marital Status=Married|Yes) = 0 For taxable income: If class=No: sample mean=110 sample variance=2975 If class=Yes: sample mean=90 sample variance=25 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar P(X|Class=No) = P(Refund=No|Class=No) P(Married| Class=No) P(Income=120K| Class=No) = 4/7 4/7 0.0072 = 0.0024 P(X|Class=Yes) = P(Refund=No| Class=Yes) P(Married| Class=Yes) P(Income=120K| Class=Yes) = 1 0 (1.2 10-9)= 0 Since P(X|No)P(No) > P(X|Yes)P(Yes) Therefore P(No|X) > P(Yes|X) => Class = No Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Naïve Bayes Classifier If one of the conditional probability is zero, then the entire expression becomes zero Probability estimation: N ic Original : P( Ai | C ) Nc N ic 1 Laplace : P( Ai | C ) Nc c N ic mp m - estimate : P( Ai | C ) Nc m © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining c: number of classes p: prior probability m: parameter ‹#› Example of Naïve Bayes Classifier Name human python salmon whale frog komodo bat pigeon cat leopard shark turtle penguin porcupine eel salamander gila monster platypus owl dolphin eagle Give Birth yes Give Birth yes no no yes no no yes no yes yes no no yes no no no no no yes no Can Fly no no no no no no yes yes no no no no no no no no no yes no yes Can Fly no © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Live in Water Have Legs no no yes yes sometimes no no no no yes sometimes sometimes no yes sometimes no no no yes no Class yes no no no yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes no yes yes yes yes no yes mammals non-mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals non-mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals non-mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals mammals non-mammals Live in Water Have Legs yes no Class ? Introduction to Data Mining A: attributes M: mammals N: non-mammals 6 6 2 2 P ( A | M ) 0.06 7 7 7 7 1 10 3 4 P ( A | N ) 0.0042 13 13 13 13 7 P ( A | M ) P( M ) 0.06 0.021 20 13 P ( A | N ) P ( N ) 0.004 0.0027 20 P(A|M)P(M) > P(A|N)P(N) => Mammals ‹#› Naïve Bayes (Summary) Robust to isolated noise points Handle missing values by ignoring the instance during probability estimate calculations Robust to irrelevant attributes Independence assumption may not hold for some attributes – Use other techniques such as Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Ensemble Methods Construct a set of classifiers from the training data Predict class label of previously unseen records by aggregating predictions made by multiple classifiers © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› General Idea D Step 1: Create Multiple Data Sets Step 2: Build Multiple Classifiers D1 D2 C1 C2 Step 3: Combine Classifiers © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar .... Original Training data Dt-1 Dt Ct -1 Ct C* Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Why does it work? Suppose there are 25 base classifiers – Each classifier has error rate, = 0.35 – Assume classifiers are independent – Probability that the ensemble classifier makes a wrong prediction: 25 i 25i ( 1 ) 0.06 i i 13 25 If the base classifiers are independent, the ensemble makes a wrong prediction only if more than half of them predict incorrectly. © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Examples of Ensemble Methods How to generate an ensemble of classifiers? – Bagging – Boosting © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bagging Sampling with replacement Original Data Bagging (Round 1) Bagging (Round 2) Bagging (Round 3) 1 7 1 1 2 8 4 8 3 10 9 5 4 8 1 10 5 2 2 5 6 5 3 5 7 10 2 9 8 10 7 6 9 5 3 3 10 9 2 7 Build classifier on each bootstrap sample Approximately 63% of the original training data are presented in each round Each sample has probability 1-(1-1/N)^N=1 – 1/e = 0.63 of being selected © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bagging (example) Error rate = 2/10 actual Error rate = 2/10 Error rate = 2/10 Error rate = 2/10 Error rate = 2/10 Error rate = 1/10 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Bagging (example) © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Boosting An iterative procedure to adaptively change distribution of training data by focusing more on previously misclassified records – Initially, all N records are assigned equal weights – Unlike bagging, weights may change at the end of boosting round © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Boosting Records that are wrongly classified will have their weights increased Records that are classified correctly will have their weights decreased Original Data Boosting (Round 1) Boosting (Round 2) Boosting (Round 3) 1 7 5 4 2 3 4 4 3 2 9 8 4 8 4 10 5 7 2 4 6 9 5 5 7 4 1 4 8 10 7 6 9 6 4 3 10 3 2 4 • Example 4 is hard to classify • Its weight is increased, therefore it is more likely to be chosen again in subsequent rounds © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#› Example for boosting 5.16 = -1* 1,738+ 1 * 2,7784+ 1 * 4,1195 © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining ‹#›