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Discriminant Functions Generative Models Discriminative Models

Linear Models for ClassificationBishop PRML Ch. 4

Alireza Ghane

Discriminant Functions Generative Models Discriminative Models

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• Each input vector classified into one of K discrete classes• Denote classes by Ck

• Represent input image as a vector xi ∈ R784.• We have target vector ti ∈ {0, 1}10

• Given a training set {(x1, t1), . . . , (xN , tN )}, learning problemis to construct a “good” function y(x) from these.• y : R784 → R10

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Generalized Linear Models

• Similar to previous chapter on linear models for regression, wewill use a “linear” model for classification:

y(x) = f(wTx+ w0)

• This is called a generalized linear model• f(·) is a fixed non-linear function

• e.g.

f(u) =

{1 if u ≥ 00 otherwise

• Decision boundary between classes will be linear function of x• Can also apply non-linearity to x, as in φi(x) for regression

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Generalized Linear Models

• Similar to previous chapter on linear models for regression, wewill use a “linear” model for classification:

y(x) = f(wTx+ w0)

• This is called a generalized linear model• f(·) is a fixed non-linear function

• e.g.

f(u) =

{1 if u ≥ 00 otherwise

• Decision boundary between classes will be linear function of x• Can also apply non-linearity to x, as in φi(x) for regression

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Generalized Linear Models

• Similar to previous chapter on linear models for regression, wewill use a “linear” model for classification:

y(x) = f(wTx+ w0)

• This is called a generalized linear model• f(·) is a fixed non-linear function

• e.g.

f(u) =

{1 if u ≥ 00 otherwise

• Decision boundary between classes will be linear function of x• Can also apply non-linearity to x, as in φi(x) for regression

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Generalized Linear Model

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Outline

Discriminant Functions

Generative Models

Discriminative Models

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Discriminant Functions with Two Classes

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• Simple linear discriminant

y(x) = wTx+ w0

apply threshold function to getclassification

• Projection of x in w dir. is wTx||w||

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Multiple Classes

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• A linear discriminant between two classes separates with ahyperplane

• How to use this for multiple classes?• One-versus-the-rest method: build K − 1 classifiers, between Ck

and all others• One-versus-one method: build K(K − 1)/2 classifiers, between

all pairs

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Multiple Classes

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• A linear discriminant between two classes separates with ahyperplane

• How to use this for multiple classes?• One-versus-the-rest method: build K − 1 classifiers, between Ck

and all others• One-versus-one method: build K(K − 1)/2 classifiers, between

all pairs

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Multiple Classes

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not C1

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• A linear discriminant between two classes separates with ahyperplane

• How to use this for multiple classes?• One-versus-the-rest method: build K − 1 classifiers, between Ck

and all others• One-versus-one method: build K(K − 1)/2 classifiers, between

all pairs

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Multiple Classes

R1

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• A linear discriminant between two classes separates with ahyperplane

• How to use this for multiple classes?• One-versus-the-rest method: build K − 1 classifiers, between Ck

and all others• One-versus-one method: build K(K − 1)/2 classifiers, between

all pairs

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Multiple Classes

Ri

Rj

Rk

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xB

• A solution is to build K linear functions:

yk(x) = wTk x+ wk0

assign x to class argmaxk yk(x)

• Gives connected, convex decision regions

x̂ = λxA + (1− λ)xByk(x̂) = λyk(xA) + (1− λ)yk(xB)

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Multiple Classes

Ri

Rj

Rk

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xB

• A solution is to build K linear functions:

yk(x) = wTk x+ wk0

assign x to class argmaxk yk(x)

• Gives connected, convex decision regions

x̂ = λxA + (1− λ)xByk(x̂) = λyk(xA) + (1− λ)yk(xB)

⇒ yk(x̂) > yj(x̂),∀j 6= kLinear Models for Classification Alireza Ghane / Greg Mori 13

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Least Squares for Classification

• How do we learn the decision boundaries (wk, wk0)?• One approach is to use least squares, similar to regression• FindW to minimize squared error over all examples and all

components of the label vector:

E(W ) =1

2

N∑n=1

K∑k=1

(yk(xn)− tnk)2

• Some algebra, we get a solution using the pseudo-inverse as inregression

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Least Squares for Classification

• How do we learn the decision boundaries (wk, wk0)?• One approach is to use least squares, similar to regression• FindW to minimize squared error over all examples and all

components of the label vector:

E(W ) =1

2

N∑n=1

K∑k=1

(yk(xn)− tnk)2

• Some algebra, we get a solution using the pseudo-inverse as inregression

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Least Squares for Classification

• How do we learn the decision boundaries (wk, wk0)?• One approach is to use least squares, similar to regression• FindW to minimize squared error over all examples and all

components of the label vector:

E(W ) =1

2

N∑n=1

K∑k=1

(yk(xn)− tnk)2

• Some algebra, we get a solution using the pseudo-inverse as inregression

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Problems with Least Squares

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• Looks okay... least squares decisionboundary• Similar to logistic regression

decision boundary (more later)

• Gets worse by adding easy points?!• Why?

• If target value is 1, points far fromboundary will have high value,say 10; this is a large error so theboundary is moved

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Problems with Least Squares

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• Looks okay... least squares decisionboundary• Similar to logistic regression

decision boundary (more later)

• Gets worse by adding easy points?!

• Why?• If target value is 1, points far from

boundary will have high value,say 10; this is a large error so theboundary is moved

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Problems with Least Squares

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• Looks okay... least squares decisionboundary• Similar to logistic regression

decision boundary (more later)

• Gets worse by adding easy points?!• Why?

• If target value is 1, points far fromboundary will have high value,say 10; this is a large error so theboundary is moved

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Problems with Least Squares

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• Looks okay... least squares decisionboundary• Similar to logistic regression

decision boundary (more later)

• Gets worse by adding easy points?!• Why?

• If target value is 1, points far fromboundary will have high value,say 10; this is a large error so theboundary is moved

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More Least Squares Problems

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• Easily separated by hyperplanes, but not found using leastsquares!

• We’ll address these problems later with better models• First, a look at a different criterion for linear discriminant

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

• The two-class linear discriminant acts as a projection:

y = wTx≥ −w0

followed by a threshold

• In which direction w should we project?• One which separates classes “well”

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

• The two-class linear discriminant acts as a projection:

y = wTx≥ −w0

followed by a threshold

• In which direction w should we project?• One which separates classes “well”

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

• The two-class linear discriminant acts as a projection:

y = wTx≥ −w0

followed by a threshold• In which direction w should we project?

• One which separates classes “well”

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

• The two-class linear discriminant acts as a projection:

y = wTx≥ −w0

followed by a threshold• In which direction w should we project?• One which separates classes “well”

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

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• A natural idea would be to project in the direction of the lineconnecting class means

• However, problematic if classes have variance in this direction• Fisher criterion: maximize ratio of inter-class separation

(between) to intra-class variance (inside)

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

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• A natural idea would be to project in the direction of the lineconnecting class means

• However, problematic if classes have variance in this direction• Fisher criterion: maximize ratio of inter-class separation

(between) to intra-class variance (inside)

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

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• A natural idea would be to project in the direction of the lineconnecting class means

• However, problematic if classes have variance in this direction

• Fisher criterion: maximize ratio of inter-class separation(between) to intra-class variance (inside)

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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

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• A natural idea would be to project in the direction of the lineconnecting class means

• However, problematic if classes have variance in this direction• Fisher criterion: maximize ratio of inter-class separation

(between) to intra-class variance (inside)

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Math time - FLD

• Projection yn = wTxn

• Inter-class separation is distance between class means (good):

mk =1

Nk

∑n∈Ck

wTxn

• Intra-class variance (bad):

s2k =

∑n∈Ck

(yn −mk)2

• Fisher criterion:

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

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Math time - FLD

• Projection yn = wTxn

• Inter-class separation is distance between class means (good):

mk =1

Nk

∑n∈Ck

wTxn

• Intra-class variance (bad):

s2k =

∑n∈Ck

(yn −mk)2

• Fisher criterion:

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

maximize wrt wLinear Models for Classification Alireza Ghane / Greg Mori 31

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Math time - FLD

• Projection yn = wTxn

• Inter-class separation is distance between class means (good):

mk =1

Nk

∑n∈Ck

wTxn

• Intra-class variance (bad):

s2k =

∑n∈Ck

(yn −mk)2

• Fisher criterion:

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

maximize wrt wLinear Models for Classification Alireza Ghane / Greg Mori 32

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Math time - FLD

• Projection yn = wTxn

• Inter-class separation is distance between class means (good):

mk =1

Nk

∑n∈Ck

wTxn

• Intra-class variance (bad):

s2k =

∑n∈Ck

(yn −mk)2

• Fisher criterion:

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

maximize wrt wLinear Models for Classification Alireza Ghane / Greg Mori 33

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Math time - FLD

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

=wTSBw

wTSWw

Between-class covariance:

SB = (m2 −m1)(m2 −m1)T

Within-class covariance:

SW =∑n∈C1

(xn −m1)(xn −m1)T +

∑n∈C2

(xn −m2)(xn −m2)T

Lots of math:

w ∝ S−1W (m2 −m1)

If covariance SW is isotropic, reduces to class mean difference vector

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Math time - FLD

J(w) =(m2 −m1)

2

s21 + s2

2

=wTSBw

wTSWw

Between-class covariance:

SB = (m2 −m1)(m2 −m1)T

Within-class covariance:

SW =∑n∈C1

(xn −m1)(xn −m1)T +

∑n∈C2

(xn −m2)(xn −m2)T

Lots of math:

w ∝ S−1W (m2 −m1)

If covariance SW is isotropic, reduces to class mean difference vector

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FLD Summary

• FLD is a dimensionality reduction technique (more later in thecourse)

• Criterion for choosing projection based on class labels• Still suffers from outliers (e.g. earlier least squares example)

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Perceptrons

• Perceptrons is used to refer to many neural network structures(more in Chapter 5.)

• The classic type is a fixed non-linear transformation of input, onelayer of adaptive weights, and a threshold:

y(x) = f(wTφ(x))

• Developed by Rosenblatt in the 50s

• The main difference compared to the methods we’ve seen so faris the learning algorithm

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Perceptron Learning

• Two class problem• For ease of notation, we will use t = 1 for class C1 and t = −1

for class C2

• We saw that squared error was problematic• Instead, we’d like to minimize the number of misclassified

examples• An example is mis-classified if wTφ(xn)tn < 0• Perceptron criterion:

EP (w) = −∑n∈M

wTφ(xn)tn

sum over mis-classified examples only

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Perceptron Learning

• Two class problem• For ease of notation, we will use t = 1 for class C1 and t = −1

for class C2

• We saw that squared error was problematic• Instead, we’d like to minimize the number of misclassified

examples• An example is mis-classified if wTφ(xn)tn < 0• Perceptron criterion:

EP (w) = −∑n∈M

wTφ(xn)tn

sum over mis-classified examples only

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Perceptron Learning

• Two class problem• For ease of notation, we will use t = 1 for class C1 and t = −1

for class C2

• We saw that squared error was problematic• Instead, we’d like to minimize the number of misclassified

examples• An example is mis-classified if wTφ(xn)tn < 0• Perceptron criterion:

EP (w) = −∑n∈M

wTφ(xn)tn

sum over mis-classified examples only

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Perceptron Learning

• Two class problem• For ease of notation, we will use t = 1 for class C1 and t = −1

for class C2

• We saw that squared error was problematic• Instead, we’d like to minimize the number of misclassified

examples• An example is mis-classified if wTφ(xn)tn < 0• Perceptron criterion:

EP (w) = −∑n∈M

wTφ(xn)tn

sum over mis-classified examples only

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Perceptron Learning Algorithm

• Minimize the error function using stochastic gradient descent(gradient descent per example):

w(τ+1) = w(τ) − η∇EP (w)

= w(τ) + ηφ(xn)tn︸ ︷︷ ︸if incorrect

• Iterate over all training examples, only change w if the exampleis mis-classified

• Guaranteed to converge if data are linearly separable• Will not converge if not• May take many iterations• Sensitive to initialization

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Perceptron Learning Algorithm

• Minimize the error function using stochastic gradient descent(gradient descent per example):

w(τ+1) = w(τ) − η∇EP (w) = w(τ) + ηφ(xn)tn︸ ︷︷ ︸if incorrect

• Iterate over all training examples, only change w if the exampleis mis-classified

• Guaranteed to converge if data are linearly separable• Will not converge if not• May take many iterations• Sensitive to initialization

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Perceptron Learning Algorithm

• Minimize the error function using stochastic gradient descent(gradient descent per example):

w(τ+1) = w(τ) − η∇EP (w) = w(τ) + ηφ(xn)tn︸ ︷︷ ︸if incorrect

• Iterate over all training examples, only change w if the exampleis mis-classified

• Guaranteed to converge if data are linearly separable• Will not converge if not• May take many iterations• Sensitive to initialization

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Perceptron Learning Illustration

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Perceptron Learning Illustration

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Limitations of Perceptrons

• Perceptrons can only solve linearly separable problems in featurespace• Same as the other models in this chapter

• Canonical example of non-separable problem is X-OR• Real datasets can look like this too

Expressiveness of perceptrons

Consider a perceptron with g = step function (Rosenblatt, 1957, 1960)

Can represent AND, OR, NOT, majority, etc.

Represents a linear separator in input space:

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Discriminant Functions

Generative Models

Discriminative Models

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models

• Up to now we’ve looked at learning classification by choosingparameters to minimize an error function

• We’ll now develop a probabilistic approach• With 2 classes, C1 and C2:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x)Bayes’ Rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x, C1) + p(x, C2)Sum rule

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)Product rule

• In generative models we specify the distribution p(x|Ck) whichgenerates the data for each class

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Probabilistic Generative Models - Example

• Let’s say we observe x which is the current temperature• Determine if we are in Vancouver (C1) or Honolulu (C2)• Generative model:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)

• p(x|C1) is distribution over typical temperatures in Vancouver• e.g. p(x|C1) = N (x; 10, 5)

• p(x|C2) is distribution over typical temperatures in Honolulu• e.g. p(x|C2) = N (x; 25, 5)

• Class priors p(C1) = 0.1, p(C2) = 0.9

• p(C1|x = 15) = 0.0484·0.10.0484·0.1+0.0108·0.9 ≈ 0.33

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Probabilistic Generative Models - Example

• Let’s say we observe x which is the current temperature• Determine if we are in Vancouver (C1) or Honolulu (C2)• Generative model:

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)

• p(x|C1) is distribution over typical temperatures in Vancouver• e.g. p(x|C1) = N (x; 10, 5)

• p(x|C2) is distribution over typical temperatures in Honolulu• e.g. p(x|C2) = N (x; 25, 5)

• Class priors p(C1) = 0.1, p(C2) = 0.9

• p(C1|x = 15) = 0.0484·0.10.0484·0.1+0.0108·0.9 ≈ 0.33

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Generalized Linear Models

• We can write the classifier in another form

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)

=1

1 + exp(−a)≡ σ(a)

where a = lnp(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C2)p(C2)

• This looks like gratuitous math, but if a takes a simple form thisis another generalized linear model which we have been studying

• Of course, we will see how such a simple form a = wTx+ w0

arises naturally

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Generalized Linear Models

• We can write the classifier in another form

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)

=1

1 + exp(−a)≡ σ(a)

where a = lnp(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C2)p(C2)

• This looks like gratuitous math, but if a takes a simple form thisis another generalized linear model which we have been studying

• Of course, we will see how such a simple form a = wTx+ w0

arises naturally

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Generalized Linear Models

• We can write the classifier in another form

p(C1|x) =p(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C1)p(C1) + p(x|C2)p(C2)

=1

1 + exp(−a)≡ σ(a)

where a = lnp(x|C1)p(C1)

p(x|C2)p(C2)

• This looks like gratuitous math, but if a takes a simple form thisis another generalized linear model which we have been studying

• Of course, we will see how such a simple form a = wTx+ w0

arises naturally

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Logistic Sigmoid

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• It squashes the real axis down to [0, 1]

• It is continuous and differentiable• It avoids the problems encountered with the too correct

least-squares error fitting (later)

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Multi-class Extension

• There is a generalization of the logistic sigmoid to K > 2classes:

p(Ck|x) =p(x|Ck)p(Ck)∑j p(x|Cj)p(Cj)

=exp(ak)∑j exp(aj)

where ak = ln p(x|Ck)p(Ck)

• a. k. a. softmax function• If some ak � aj , p(Ck|x) goes to 1

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Multi-class Extension

• There is a generalization of the logistic sigmoid to K > 2classes:

p(Ck|x) =p(x|Ck)p(Ck)∑j p(x|Cj)p(Cj)

=exp(ak)∑j exp(aj)

where ak = ln p(x|Ck)p(Ck)

• a. k. a. softmax function• If some ak � aj , p(Ck|x) goes to 1

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Gaussian Class-Conditional Densities

• Back to that a in the logistic sigmoid for 2 classes• Let’s assume the class-conditional densities p(x|Ck) are Gaussians,

and have the same covariance matrix Σ:

p(x|Ck) =1

(2π)D/2|Σ|1/2exp

{−1

2(x− µk)TΣ−1(x− µk)

}

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Gaussian Class-Conditional Densities

• Back to that a in the logistic sigmoid for 2 classes• Let’s assume the class-conditional densities p(x|Ck) are Gaussians,

and have the same covariance matrix Σ:

p(x|Ck) =1

(2π)D/2|Σ|1/2exp

{−1

2(x− µk)TΣ−1(x− µk)

}

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a = lnp(x|C1)p(C1)

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Gaussian Class-Conditional Densities

• Back to that a in the logistic sigmoid for 2 classes• Let’s assume the class-conditional densities p(x|Ck) are Gaussians,

and have the same covariance matrix Σ:

p(x|Ck) =1

(2π)D/2|Σ|1/2exp

{−1

2(x− µk)TΣ−1(x− µk)

}

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Gaussian Class-Conditional Densities

• Back to that a in the logistic sigmoid for 2 classes• Let’s assume the class-conditional densities p(x|Ck) are Gaussians,

and have the same covariance matrix Σ:

p(x|Ck) =1

(2π)D/2|Σ|1/2exp

{−1

2(x− µk)TΣ−1(x− µk)

}

• a takes a simple form:

a = lnp(x|C1)p(C1)

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Maximum Likelihood Learning

• We can fit the parameters to this model using maximumlikelihood• Parameters are µ1, µ2, Σ−1, p(C1) ≡ π, p(C2) ≡ 1− π• Refer to as θ

• For a datapoint xn from class C1 (tn = 1):

p(xn, C1) = p(C1)p(xn|C1) = πN (xn|µ1,Σ)

• For a datapoint xn from class C2 (tn = 0):

p(xn, C2) = p(C2)p(xn|C2) = (1− π)N (xn|µ2,Σ)

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Maximum Likelihood Learning

• We can fit the parameters to this model using maximumlikelihood• Parameters are µ1, µ2, Σ−1, p(C1) ≡ π, p(C2) ≡ 1− π• Refer to as θ

• For a datapoint xn from class C1 (tn = 1):

p(xn, C1) = p(C1)p(xn|C1) = πN (xn|µ1,Σ)

• For a datapoint xn from class C2 (tn = 0):

p(xn, C2) = p(C2)p(xn|C2) = (1− π)N (xn|µ2,Σ)

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Maximum Likelihood Learning

• We can fit the parameters to this model using maximumlikelihood• Parameters are µ1, µ2, Σ−1, p(C1) ≡ π, p(C2) ≡ 1− π• Refer to as θ

• For a datapoint xn from class C1 (tn = 1):

p(xn, C1) = p(C1)p(xn|C1) = πN (xn|µ1,Σ)

• For a datapoint xn from class C2 (tn = 0):

p(xn, C2) = p(C2)p(xn|C2) = (1− π)N (xn|µ2,Σ)

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Maximum Likelihood Learning

• The likelihood of the training data is:

p(t|π,µ1,µ2,Σ) =

N∏n=1

[πN (xn|µ1,Σ)]tn [(1−π)N (xn|µ2,Σ)]1−tn

• As usual, ln is our friend:

`(t; θ) =

N∑n=1

tn lnπ + (1− tn) ln(1− π)︸ ︷︷ ︸π

+ tn lnN1 + (1− tn) lnN2︸ ︷︷ ︸µ1,µ2,Σ

• Maximize for each separately

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Maximum Likelihood Learning

• The likelihood of the training data is:

p(t|π,µ1,µ2,Σ) =

N∏n=1

[πN (xn|µ1,Σ)]tn [(1−π)N (xn|µ2,Σ)]1−tn

• As usual, ln is our friend:

`(t; θ) =

N∑n=1

tn lnπ + (1− tn) ln(1− π)︸ ︷︷ ︸π

+ tn lnN1 + (1− tn) lnN2︸ ︷︷ ︸µ1,µ2,Σ

• Maximize for each separately

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Class Priors

• Maximization with respect to the class priors parameter π isstraightforward:

∂π`(t; θ) =

N∑n=1

tnπ− 1− tn

1− π

⇒ π =N1

N1 +N2

• N1 and N2 are the number of training points in each class• Prior is simply the fraction of points in each class

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Class Priors

• Maximization with respect to the class priors parameter π isstraightforward:

∂π`(t; θ) =

N∑n=1

tnπ− 1− tn

1− π

⇒ π =N1

N1 +N2

• N1 and N2 are the number of training points in each class• Prior is simply the fraction of points in each class

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Class Priors

• Maximization with respect to the class priors parameter π isstraightforward:

∂π`(t; θ) =

N∑n=1

tnπ− 1− tn

1− π

⇒ π =N1

N1 +N2

• N1 and N2 are the number of training points in each class• Prior is simply the fraction of points in each class

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Gaussian Parameters• The other parameters can also be found in the same fashion• Class means:

µ1 =1

N1

N∑n=1

tnxn

µ2 =1

N2

N∑n=1

(1− tn)xn

• Means of training examples from each class

• Shared covariance matrix:

Σ =N1

N

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N1

∑n∈C1

(xn−µ1)(xn−µ1)T+

N2

N

1

N2

∑n∈C2

(xn−µ2)(xn−µ2)T

• Weighted average of class covariances

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Gaussian Parameters• The other parameters can also be found in the same fashion• Class means:

µ1 =1

N1

N∑n=1

tnxn

µ2 =1

N2

N∑n=1

(1− tn)xn

• Means of training examples from each class

• Shared covariance matrix:

Σ =N1

N

1

N1

∑n∈C1

(xn−µ1)(xn−µ1)T+

N2

N

1

N2

∑n∈C2

(xn−µ2)(xn−µ2)T

• Weighted average of class covariances

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Gaussian with Different Covariances

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a = ln(p(x|Cb))− ln(p(x|Cr))︸ ︷︷ ︸−(x−µb)T Σb(x−µb)+(x−µr)T Σr(x−µr)

+ ln(p(Cb))− ln(p(Cr))︸ ︷︷ ︸const.

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Probabilistic Generative Models Summary

• Fitting Gaussian using ML criterion is sensitive to outliers• Simple linear form for a in logistic sigmoid occurs for more than

just Gaussian distributions• Arises for any distribution in the exponential family, a large class

of distributions

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Outline

Discriminant Functions

Generative Models

Discriminative Models

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Probabilistic Discriminative Models

• Generative model made assumptions about form ofclass-conditional distributions (e.g. Gaussian)• Resulted in logistic sigmoid of linear function of x

• Discriminative model - explicitly use functional form

p(C1|x) =1

1 + exp(−wTx+ w0)

and find w directly• For the generative model we had 2M +M(M + 1)/2 + 1

parameters• M is dimensionality of x

• Discriminative model will have M + 1 parameters

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Probabilistic Discriminative Models

• Generative model made assumptions about form ofclass-conditional distributions (e.g. Gaussian)• Resulted in logistic sigmoid of linear function of x

• Discriminative model - explicitly use functional form

p(C1|x) =1

1 + exp(−wTx+ w0)

and find w directly• For the generative model we had 2M +M(M + 1)/2 + 1

parameters• M is dimensionality of x

• Discriminative model will have M + 1 parameters

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Probabilistic Discriminative Models

• Generative model made assumptions about form ofclass-conditional distributions (e.g. Gaussian)• Resulted in logistic sigmoid of linear function of x

• Discriminative model - explicitly use functional form

p(C1|x) =1

1 + exp(−wTx+ w0)

and find w directly• For the generative model we had 2M +M(M + 1)/2 + 1

parameters• M is dimensionality of x

• Discriminative model will have M + 1 parameters

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Generative vs. Discriminative

• Generative models• Can generate synthetic example

data• Perhaps accurate classification is

equivalent to accurate synthesis• e.g. vision and graphics

• Tend to have more parameters• Require good model of class

distributions

• Discriminative models• Only usable for classification• Don’t solve a harder problem than

you need to• Tend to have fewer parameters• Require good model of decision

boundary

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Discriminative Model

• As usual we can use the maximum likelihood criterion forlearning

p(t|w) =

N∏n=1

ytnn {1− yn}1−tn ; where yn = p(C1|xn)

• Taking ln and derivative gives:

∇`(w) =

N∑n=1

(tn − yn)xn

• This time no closed-form solution since yn = σ(wTx)

• Could use (stochastic) gradient descent• But there’s a better iterative technique

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Discriminative Model

• As usual we can use the maximum likelihood criterion forlearning

p(t|w) =

N∏n=1

ytnn {1− yn}1−tn ; where yn = p(C1|xn)

• Taking ln and derivative gives:

∇`(w) =

N∑n=1

(tn − yn)xn

• This time no closed-form solution since yn = σ(wTx)

• Could use (stochastic) gradient descent• But there’s a better iterative technique

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Discriminative Model

• As usual we can use the maximum likelihood criterion forlearning

p(t|w) =

N∏n=1

ytnn {1− yn}1−tn ; where yn = p(C1|xn)

• Taking ln and derivative gives:

∇`(w) =

N∑n=1

(tn − yn)xn

• This time no closed-form solution since yn = σ(wTx)

• Could use (stochastic) gradient descent• But there’s a better iterative technique

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Maximum Likelihood Learning - Discriminative Model

• As usual we can use the maximum likelihood criterion forlearning

p(t|w) =

N∏n=1

ytnn {1− yn}1−tn ; where yn = p(C1|xn)

• Taking ln and derivative gives:

∇`(w) =

N∑n=1

(tn − yn)xn

• This time no closed-form solution since yn = σ(wTx)

• Could use (stochastic) gradient descent• But there’s a better iterative technique

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Iterative Reweighted Least Squares

• Iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) is a descent method• As in gradient descent, start with an initial guess, improve it• Gradient descent - take a step (how large?) in the gradient

direction• IRLS is a special case of a Newton-Raphson method

• Approximate function using second-order Taylor expansion:

f̂(w+v) = f(w)+∇f(w)T (v−w)+1

2(v−w)T∇2f(w)(v−w)

• Closed-form solution to minimize this is straight-forward:quadratic, derivatives linear

• In IRLS this second-order Taylor expansion ends up being aweighted least-squares problem, as in the regression case fromlast week• Hence the name IRLS

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Iterative Reweighted Least Squares

• Iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) is a descent method• As in gradient descent, start with an initial guess, improve it• Gradient descent - take a step (how large?) in the gradient

direction• IRLS is a special case of a Newton-Raphson method

• Approximate function using second-order Taylor expansion:

f̂(w+v) = f(w)+∇f(w)T (v−w)+1

2(v−w)T∇2f(w)(v−w)

• Closed-form solution to minimize this is straight-forward:quadratic, derivatives linear

• In IRLS this second-order Taylor expansion ends up being aweighted least-squares problem, as in the regression case fromlast week• Hence the name IRLS

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Iterative Reweighted Least Squares

• Iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) is a descent method• As in gradient descent, start with an initial guess, improve it• Gradient descent - take a step (how large?) in the gradient

direction• IRLS is a special case of a Newton-Raphson method

• Approximate function using second-order Taylor expansion:

f̂(w+v) = f(w)+∇f(w)T (v−w)+1

2(v−w)T∇2f(w)(v−w)

• Closed-form solution to minimize this is straight-forward:quadratic, derivatives linear

• In IRLS this second-order Taylor expansion ends up being aweighted least-squares problem, as in the regression case fromlast week• Hence the name IRLS

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Iterative Reweighted Least Squares

• Iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) is a descent method• As in gradient descent, start with an initial guess, improve it• Gradient descent - take a step (how large?) in the gradient

direction• IRLS is a special case of a Newton-Raphson method

• Approximate function using second-order Taylor expansion:

f̂(w+v) = f(w)+∇f(w)T (v−w)+1

2(v−w)T∇2f(w)(v−w)

• Closed-form solution to minimize this is straight-forward:quadratic, derivatives linear

• In IRLS this second-order Taylor expansion ends up being aweighted least-squares problem, as in the regression case fromlast week• Hence the name IRLS

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Iterative Reweighted Least Squares

• Iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) is a descent method• As in gradient descent, start with an initial guess, improve it• Gradient descent - take a step (how large?) in the gradient

direction• IRLS is a special case of a Newton-Raphson method

• Approximate function using second-order Taylor expansion:

f̂(w+v) = f(w)+∇f(w)T (v−w)+1

2(v−w)T∇2f(w)(v−w)

• Closed-form solution to minimize this is straight-forward:quadratic, derivatives linear

• In IRLS this second-order Taylor expansion ends up being aweighted least-squares problem, as in the regression case fromlast week• Hence the name IRLS

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Newton-Raphson

484 9 Unconstrained minimization

PSfrag replacements

f

!f

(x, f(x))

(x + !xnt, f(x + !xnt))

Figure 9.16 The function f (shown solid) and its second-order approximation!f at x (dashed). The Newton step !xnt is what must be added to x to give

the minimizer of !f .

9.5 Newton’s method

9.5.1 The Newton step

For x ! dom f , the vector

!xnt = "#2f(x)!1#f(x)

is called the Newton step (for f , at x). Positive definiteness of #2f(x) implies that

#f(x)T !xnt = "#f(x)T#2f(x)!1#f(x) < 0

unless #f(x) = 0, so the Newton step is a descent direction (unless x is optimal).The Newton step can be interpreted and motivated in several ways.

Minimizer of second-order approximation

The second-order Taylor approximation (or model) !f of f at x is

!f(x + v) = f(x) + #f(x)T v +1

2vT#2f(x)v, (9.28)

which is a convex quadratic function of v, and is minimized when v = !xnt. Thus,the Newton step !xnt is what should be added to the point x to minimize thesecond-order approximation of f at x. This is illustrated in figure 9.16.

This interpretation gives us some insight into the Newton step. If the functionf is quadratic, then x + !xnt is the exact minimizer of f . If the function f isnearly quadratic, intuition suggests that x + !xnt should be a very good estimateof the minimizer of f , i.e., x!. Since f is twice di"erentiable, the quadratic modelof f will be very accurate when x is near x!. It follows that when x is near x!,the point x + !xnt should be a very good estimate of x!. We will see that thisintuition is correct.

• Figure from Boyd and Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization• Excellent reference, free for download onlinehttp://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

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Conclusion

• Readings: Ch. 4.1.1-4.1.4, 4.1.7, 4.2.1-4.2.2, 4.3.1-4.3.3• Generalized linear models y(x) = f(wTx+ w0)

• Threshold/max function for f(·)• Minimize with least squares• Fisher criterion - class separation• Perceptron criterion - mis-classified examples

• Probabilistic models: logistic sigmoid / softmax for f(·)• Generative model - assume class conditional densities in

exponential family; obtain sigmoid• Discriminative model - directly model posterior using sigmoid

(a. k. a. logistic regression, though classification)• Can learn either using maximum likelihood

• All of these models are limited to linear decision boundaries infeature space

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