MCS 2013: Multiple Classifier Systems pp 319-330 | Cite as

Randomized Bayesian Network Classifiers

  • Qing Wang
  • Ping Li
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7872)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose Randomized Bayesian Network Classifiers (RBNC). It borrows the idea of ensemble learning by constructing a collection of semi-naive Bayesian network classifiers and then combines their predictions as the final output. Specifically, the structure learning of each component Bayesian network classifier is performed by just randomly choosing the parent of each attribute in addition to class attribute, and parameter learning is performed by using maximum likelihood method. RBNC retains many of naive Bayes’ desirable property, such as scaling linearly with respect to both the number of instances and attributes, needing a single pass through the training data and robust to noise, etc. On the 60 widely used benchmark UCI datasets, RBNC outperforms state-of-the-art Bayesian classifiers.

Keywords

Bayesian Network Random Forest Class Attribute Structure Learning Bayesian Network Model 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Qing Wang
    • 1
    • 2
  • Ping Li
    • 2
  1. 1.School of Computer ScienceFudan UniversityShanghaiChina
  2. 2.School of Management Science and EngineeringAnhui University of TechnologyMa’anshanChina

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