Class meeting for 10-405 Streaming Naive Bayes

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Machine Learning with Large Datasets 10-405 in Spring 2018.

Slides

• Slides in Powerpoint - the stream-and-sort pattern, and large-vocabulary Naive Bayes
• Slides in PDF

Quiz

• Today's quiz

Readings for the Class

• Required: my notes on streaming and Naive Bayes
• Optional: If you're interested in reading more about smoothing for naive Bayes, I recommend this paper: Peng, Fuchun, Dale Schuurmans, and Shaojun Wang. "Augmenting naive Bayes classifiers with statistical language models." Information Retrieval 7.3 (2004): 317-345.

Things to Remember

• Zipf's law and the prevalence of rare features/words
• Communication complexity
• Stream and sort
  • Complexity of merge sort
  • How pipes implement parallel processing
  • How buffering output before a sort can improve performance
  • How stream-and-sort can implement event-counting for naive Bayes