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An Efficient Parameter - Free Method for Large Scale Offline Learning

author: Marc Boulle, France Telecom

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With the rapid growth of computer storage capacities, available data and demand for scoring models both follow an increasing trend, sharper than that of the processing power. However, the main limitation to a wide spread of data mining solutions is the non-increasing availability of skilled data analysts, which play a key role in data preparation and model selection. In this paper we present a parameter-free scalable classification method, which is a step towards fully automatic data mining. The method is based on Bayes optimal univariate conditional density estimators, naive Bayes classification enhanced with a Bayesian variable selection scheme, and averaging of models using a logarithmic smoothing of the posterior distribution. We focus on the complexity of the algorithms and show how they can cope with datasets that are far larger than the available central memory. We finally report results on the Large Scale Learning challenge, where our method obtains state of the art performance within practicable computation time.

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0:00 An Efficient Parameter-Free Method for Large Scale Offline Learning
0:10 Outline
0:23 Data Mining Methodology
0:48 Data Mining in France Telecom
1:11 Data Mining under Limited Resources
2:00 Data Mining Challenges
2:32 Averaging of Selective Naive Bayes Classifiers
2:37 Naive Bayes Classifier: Principles
3:16 Naive Bayes Classification: Three Major Improvements
3:43 Evaluation of Conditional Probabilities
4:13 Discretization: Model Selection
4:25 MODL Discretization Method
5:18 Selective Naive Bayes: Objectives
5:43 Selective Naive Bayes: Our Approach
6:41 Averaging of Selective Naive Bayes - Bayesian Model Averaging
7:22 Averaging of Selective Naive Bayes - Our Approach
8:23 Method Overview
9:05 Scalability
10:00 Key Performance Indicators
11:32 Scalability: Our Strategy
12:28 Some Practical Issues
13:22 Evaluation on the Large Scale Learning Challenge
13:29 Large Scale Learning Challenge
13:59 Our Submission
15:32 Overall Challenge Ranking
15:46 Training Time Results
17:01 Training Time: What Matters?
18:14 Accuracy Results
18:48 Illustration
19:44 Importance of Data Representation
20:56 Conclusion
21:00 Summary
22:48 Conclusion and Future Work
24:17 References
24:19 - Questions
25:49 - Questions

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