Improving Usual Naive Bayes Classifier Performances with Neural Naïve Bayes based Models

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Abstract

Naive Bayes is a popular probabilistic model appreciated for its simplicity and interpretability. However, the usual form of the related classifier suffers from two significant problems. First, as caring about the observations’ law, it cannot consider complex features. Moreover, it considers the conditional independence of the observations given the hidden variable. This paper introduces the original Neural Naive Bayes, modeling the classifier’s parameters induced from the Naive Bayes with neural network functions. This method allows for correcting the first default. We also introduce new Neural Pooled Markov Chain models, alleviating the conditional independence assumption. We empirically study the benefits of these models for Sentiment Analysis, dividing the error rate of the usual classifier by 4:5 on the IMDB dataset with the FastText embedding, and achieving an equivalent F1 as RoBERTa on TweetEval emotion dataset, while being more than a thousand times faster for inference.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICPRAM 2022 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Volume 1
EditorsMaria De Marsico, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Ana L.N. Fred
PublisherScience and Technology Publications, Lda
Pages315-322
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9789897585494
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022
Event11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 3 Feb 20225 Feb 2022

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
Volume1
ISSN (Electronic)2184-4313

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/02/225/02/22

Keywords

  • Bayes Classifier
  • Naive Bayes
  • Neural Naive Bayes
  • Neural Pooled Markov Chain
  • Pooled Markov Chain

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