Discriminative Scoring of Bayesian Network Classifiers: a Comparative Study.
Ad Feelders, Jevgeņijs Ivanovs · 2006
We consider the problem of scoring Bayesian Network Classifiers (BNCs) on the basis of the conditional loglikelihood (CLL). Currently, optimization is usually performed in BN parameter space, but for perfect graphs (such as Naive Bayes, TANs and FANs) a mapping to an equivalent Logistic Regression (LR) model is possible, and optimization can be performed in LR parameter space. We perform an empirical comparison of the efficiency of scoring in BN parameter space, and in LR parameter space using two different mappings. For each parameterization, we study two popular optimization methods: conjugate gradient, and BFGS. Efficiency of scoring is compared on simulated data and data sets from the UCI Machine Learning repository. 1