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CEAS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning at Low False Positive Rates
Most spam filters are configured for use at a very low falsepositive rate. Typically, the filters are trained with techniques that optimize accuracy or entropy, rather than perfor...
Wen-tau Yih, Joshua Goodman, Geoff Hulten
KDD
2008
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Partitioned logistic regression for spam filtering
Naive Bayes and logistic regression perform well in different regimes. While the former is a very simple generative model which is efficient to train and performs well empirically...
Ming-wei Chang, Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek
AAAI
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Building Classifiers Using Bayesian Networks
Recent work in supervised learning has shown that a surprisingly simple Bayesian classifier with strong assumptions of independence among features, called naive Bayes, is competit...
Nir Friedman, Moisés Goldszmidt
ICDM
2003
IEEE
130views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2003»
14 years 24 days ago
Information Theoretic Clustering of Sparse Co-Occurrence Data
A novel approach to clustering co-occurrence data poses it as an optimization problem in information theory which minimizes the resulting loss in mutual information. A divisive cl...
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Yuqiang Guan
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On-Line Random Naive Bayes for Tracking
—Randomized learning methods (i.e., Forests or Ferns) have shown excellent capabilities for various computer vision applications. However, it was shown that the tree structure in...
Martin Godec, Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Ho...