Supervised learning: Types of Machine Learning

Supervised learning

1. Machine Learning Unit 5, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Stanford online course Made by: Maor Levy, Temple University 2012 1

2. Machine Learning Up until now: how to reason in a give model Machine learning: how to acquire a model on the basis of data / experience Learning parameters (e.g. probabilities) Learning structure (e.g. BN graphs) Learning hidden concepts (e.g. clustering) 2

3. Machine Learning Lingo What? Parameters Structure Hidden concepts What from? Supervised Unsupervised Reinforcement Self-supervised What for? Prediction Diagnosis Compression Discovery How? Passive Active Online Offline Output? Classification Regression Clustering Details?? Generative Discriminative Smoothing 3

4. Occam’s Razor 4 Commonly attributed to William of Ockham ( 1290-1349 ). This was formulated about fifteen hundred years after Epicurus. In sharp contrast to the principle of multiple explanations, it states: Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity . Commonly explained as: when have choices, choose the simplest theory . Bertrand Russell: “It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.”

5. Supervised Machine Learning Given a training set: ( x 1 , y 1 ), ( x 2 , y 2 ), ( x 3 , y 3 ), … ( x n , y n ) Where each y i was generated by an unknown y = f ( x ), Discover a function h that approximates the true function f. 5

6. Classification Example: Spam Filter Input: x = email Output: y = “ spam ” or “ ham ” Setup: Get a large collection of example emails, each labeled “ spam ” or “ ham ” Note: someone has to hand label all this data! Want to learn to predict labels of new, future emails Features: The attributes used to make the ham / spam decision Words: FREE! Text Patterns: $ dd , CAPS Non-text: SenderInContacts … Dear Sir. First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virture of its nature as being utterly confidencial and top secret. … TO BE REMOVED FROM FUTURE MAILINGS, SIMPLY REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND PUT "REMOVE" IN THE SUBJECT. 99 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR ONLY $99 Ok, I know this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened. 6

7. A Spam Filter Naïve Bayes spam filter Data: Collection of emails, labeled spam or ham Note: someone has to hand label all this data! Split into training, held-out, test sets Classifiers Learn on the training set (Tune it on a held-out set) Test it on new emails Dear Sir. First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virture of its nature as being utterly confidencial and top secret. … TO BE REMOVED FROM FUTURE MAILINGS, SIMPLY REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND PUT "REMOVE" IN THE SUBJECT. 99 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR ONLY $99 Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened. 7

8. Example SPAM OFFER IS SECRET CLICK SECRET LINK SECRET SPORTS LINK 8 HAM PLAY SPORTS TODAY WENT PLAY SPORTS SECRET SPORTS EVENT SPORT IS TODAY SPORT COSTS MONEY Questions: Size of Vocabulary? P(SPAM) = 13 words 3/8

9. Maximum Likelihood 9 S S S H H H H H H p(S) = 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0   3 5

10. SPAM OFFER IS SECRET CLICK SECRET LINK SECRET SPORTS LINK 10 HAM PLAY SPORTS TODAY WENT PLAY SPORTS SECRET SPORTS EVENT SPORT IS TODAY SPORT COSTS MONEY Questions: P (“SECRET” | SPAM ) = P(“SECRET” | HAM) = 1/3 1/15

11. Naïve Bayes for Text Bag-of-Words Naïve Bayes: Predict unknown class label (spam vs. ham) Assume evidence features (e.g. the words) are independent Generative model Tied distributions and bag-of-words Usually, each variable gets its own conditional probability distribution P( F|Y ) In a bag-of-words model Each position is identically distributed All positions share the same conditional probs P( W|C ) Why make this assumption? Word at position i , not i th word in the dictionary! 11

12. General Naïve Bayes General probabilistic model: General naive Bayes model: We only specify how each feature depends on the class Total number of parameters is linear in n Y F 1 F n F 2 |Y| parameters n x |F| x |Y| parameters |Y| x | F| n parameters 12

13. SPAM OFFER IS SECRET CLICK SECRET LINK SECRET SPORTS LINK 13 HAM PLAY SPORTS TODAY WENT PLAY SPORTS SECRET SPORTS EVENT SPORT IS TODAY SPORT COSTS MONEY Questions: MESSAGE M = “SPORTS” P(SPAM | M) = 3/18 Applying Bayes’ Rule

14. SPAM OFFER IS SECRET CLICK SECRET LINK SECRET SPORTS LINK 14 HAM PLAY SPORTS TODAY WENT PLAY SPORTS SECRET SPORTS EVENT SPORT IS TODAY SPORT COSTS MONEY Questions: MESSAGE M = “SECRET IS SECRET” P(SPAM | M) = 25/26 Applying Bayes’ Rule

15. SPAM OFFER IS SECRET CLICK SECRET LINK SECRET SPORTS LINK 15 HAM PLAY SPORTS TODAY WENT PLAY SPORTS SECRET SPORTS EVENT SPORT IS TODAY SPORT COSTS MONEY Questions: MESSAGE M = “TODAY IS SECRET” P(SPAM | M) = Applying Bayes’ Rule

16. Example: Spam Filtering Model: What are the parameters? Where do these tables come from? the : 0.0156 to : 0.0153 and : 0.0115 of : 0.0095 you : 0.0093 a : 0.0086 with: 0.0080 from: 0.0075 ... the : 0.0210 to : 0.0133 of : 0.0119 2002: 0.0110 with: 0.0108 from: 0.0107 and : 0.0105 a : 0.0100 ... ham : 0.66 spam: 0.33 Counts from examples! 16

17. Example: Overfitting Posteriors determined by relative probabilities (odds ratios): south-west : inf nation : inf morally : inf nicely : inf extent : inf seriously : inf ... What went wrong here? screens : inf minute : inf guaranteed : inf $205.00 : inf delivery : inf signature : inf ... 17

18. Generalization and Overfitting Raw counts will overfit the training data! Unlikely that every occurrence of “ minute ” is 100% spam Unlikely that every occurrence of “ seriously ” is 100% ham What about all the words that don ’ t occur in the training set at all? 0/0? In general, we can ’ t go around giving unseen events zero probability At the extreme, imagine using the entire email as the only feature Would get the training data perfect (if deterministic labeling) Would no t generalize at all Just making the bag-of-words assumption gives us some generalization, but isn’ t enough To generalize better: we need to smooth or regularize the estimates 18

19. Estimation: Smoothing Maximum likelihood estimates: Problems with maximum likelihood estimates: If I flip a coin once, and it ’ s heads, what ’ s the estimate for P(heads)? What if I flip 10 times with 8 heads? What if I flip 10M times with 8M heads? Basic idea: We have some prior expectation about parameters (here, the probability of heads) Given little evidence, we should skew towards our prior Given a lot of evidence, we should listen to the data r g g 19

20. Estimation: Laplace Smoothing Laplace ’ s estimate (extended): Pretend you saw every outcome k extra times c (x ) is the number of occurrences of this value of the variable x. | x| is the number of values that the variable x can take on. k is a smoothing parameter. N is the total number of occurrences of x (the variable, not the value) in the sample size. What ’ s Laplace with k = 0? k is the strength of the prior Laplace for conditionals: Smooth each condition independently: 20

21. Estimation: Linear Interpolation In practice, Laplace often performs poorly for P(X|Y): When |X| is very large When |Y| is very large Another option: linear interpolation Also get P(X) from the data Make sure the estimate of P(X|Y) isn ’ t too different from P(X) What if  is 0? 1? 21

22. Real NB: Smoothing For real classification problems, smoothing is critical New odds ratios: helvetica : 11.4 seems : 10.8 group : 10.2 ago : 8.4 areas : 8.3 ... verdana : 28.8 Credit : 28.4 ORDER : 27.2 <FONT> : 26.9 money : 26.5 ... Do these make more sense? 22

23. Tuning on Held-Out Data Now we ’ ve got two kinds of unknowns Parameters: the probabilities P(Y|X), P(Y) Hyperparameters, like the amount of smoothing to do: k How to learn? Learn parameters from training data Must tune hyperparameters on different data Why? For each value of the hyperparameters, train and test on the held-out (validation)data Choose the best value and do a final test on the test data 23

24. How to Learn Data: labeled instances, e.g. emails marked spam/ham Training set Held out (validation) set Test set Features: attribute-value pairs which characterize each x Experimentation cycle Learn parameters (e.g. model probabilities) on training set Tune hyperparameters on held-out set Compute accuracy on test set Very important: never “ peek ” at the test set! Evaluation Accuracy: fraction of instances predicted correctly Overfitting and generalization Want a classifier which does well on test data Overfitting : fitting the training data very closely, but not generalizing well to test data Training Data Held-Out Data Test Data 24

25. What to Do About Errors? Need more features– words aren ’ t enough! Have you emailed the sender before? Have 1K other people just gotten the same email? Is the sending information consistent? Is the email in ALL CAPS? Do inline URLs point where they say they point? Does the email address you by (your) name? Can add these information sources as new variables in the Naïve Bayes model 25

26. A Digit Recognizer Input: x = pixel grids Output: y = a digit 0-9 26

27. Example: Digit Recognition Input: x = images (pixel grids) Output: y = a digit 0-9 Setup: Get a large collection of example images, each labeled with a digit Note: someone has to hand label all this data! Want to learn to predict labels of new, future digit images Features: The attributes used to make the digit decision Pixels: (6,8)=ON Shape Patterns: NumComponents, AspectRatio, NumLoops … 1 2 1 ?? 27

28. Naïve Bayes for Digits Simple version: One feature F ij for each grid position < i,j > Boolean features Each input maps to a feature vector, e.g. Here: lots of features, each is binary valued Naïve Bayes model: 28

29. Learning Model Parameters 1 0.1 2 0.1 3 0.1 4 0.1 5 0.1 6 0.1 7 0.1 8 0.1 9 0.1 0.1 1 0.01 2 0.05 3 0.05 4 0.30 5 0.80 6 0.90 7 0.05 8 0.60 9 0.50 0.80 1 0.05 2 0.01 3 0.90 4 0.80 5 0.90 6 0.90 7 0.25 8 0.85 9 0.60 0.80 29

30. Problem: Overfitting 2 wins!! 30

31. Regression Start with very simple example Linear regression What you learned in high school math From a new perspective Linear model y = m x + b h w ( x ) = y = w 1 x + w Find best values for parameters “ maximize goodness of fit ” “ maximize probability ” or “ minimize loss ” 31

32. Regression: Minimizing Loss Assume true function f is given by y = f ( x ) = m x + b + noise where noise is normally distributed Then most probable values of parameters found by minimizing squared-error loss: Loss ( h w ) = Σ j ( y j – h w ( x j )) 2 32

33. Regression: Minimizing Loss 33

34. Regression: Minimizing Loss y = w 1 x + w Linear algebra gives an exact solution to the minimization problem 34

35. Linear Algebra Solution 35

36. Don ’ t Always Trust Linear Models 36

37. Regression by Gradient Descent w = any point loop until convergence do: for each w i in w do: w i = w i – α ∂ Loss ( w ) ∂ w i 37

38. Multivariate Regression You learned this in math class too h w ( x ) = w ∙ x = w x T = Σ i w i x i The most probable set of weights, w* (minimizing squared error): w* = ( X T X ) -1 X T y 38

39. Overfitting To avoid overfitting , don ’ t just minimize loss Maximize probability, including prior over w Can be stated as minimization: Cost( h ) = EmpiricalLoss ( h ) + λ Complexity( h ) For linear models, consider Complexity( h w ) = L q ( w ) = ∑ i | w i | q L 1 regularization minimizes sum of abs. values L 2 regularization minimizes sum of squares 39

40. Regularization and Sparsity L 1 regularization L 2 regularization Cost( h ) = EmpiricalLoss( h ) + λ Complexity( h ) 40

41. Linear Separator - 41

42. Perceptron - 42

43. Perceptron Algorithm Start with random w , w 1 Pick training example <x,y> Update (α is learning rate) w 1  w 1 +α(y-f(x))x w  w +α(y-f(x)) Converges to linear separator (if exists) Picks “ a ” linear separator (a good one?) 43

44. What Linear Separator to Pick? - 44

45. What Linear Separator to Pick? - Maximizes the “ margin ” Support Vector Machines 45

46. Non-Separable Data? Not linearly separable for x 1 , x 2 What if we add a feature? x 3 = x 1 2 +x 2 2 See: “ Kernel Trick ” 46 X 1 X 2 - X 3 -

47. Nonparametric Models If the process of learning good values for parameters is prone to overfitting, can we do without parameters?

48. Nearest-Neighbor Classification Nearest neighbor for digits: Take new image Compare to all training images Assign based on closest example Encoding: image is vector of intensities: What ’ s the similarity function? Dot product of two images vectors? Usually normalize vectors so ||x|| = 1 min = 0 (when?), max = 1 (when?) 48

49. Earthquakes and Explosions Using logistic regression (similar to linear regression) to do linear classification 49

50. K =1 Nearest Neighbors Using nearest neighbors to do classification 50

51. K =5 Nearest Neighbors Even with no parameters, you still have hyperparameters ! 51

52. Curse of Dimensionality Average neighborhood size for 10-nearest neighbors, n dimensions, 1M uniform points 52

53. Curse of Dimensionality Proportion of points that are within the outer shell, 1% of thickness of the hypercube 53

54. References: Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun , Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University http :// www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/notes/cs221-lecture5-fall11.pdf 54