SE-807/CS-871

Machine Learning
Prof Dr. Hammad Afzal
[email protected]

Data and Text Processing Lab

www.codteem.com

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Agenda
• Supervised Learning

• Model Selection and Evaluation

• Decision Tree

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Supervised Learning
Lecture 3

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Classification Process

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 Classification Applications
• Classification
– Supervision: The training data (observations, measurements, etc.) are
accompanied by labels indicating the class of the observations.
– New data is classified based on the training set

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Classification—A Two-Step Process
• Model construction: describing a set of predetermined
classes

– Each tuple/sample is assumed to belong to a

predefined class, as determined by the class label
attribute

– The set of tuples used for model construction is

training set

– The model is represented as classification rules,

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Classification—A Two-Step Process

• Model usage:
– For classifying future or unknown objects
– Estimate accuracy of the model
▪ The known label of test sample is compared with
the classified result from the model
▪ Accuracy rate is the percentage of test set
samples that are correctly classified by the model
▪ Test set is independent of training set (otherwise
over-fitting)
– If the accuracy is acceptable, use the model to
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Process (1): Model Construction

Classification
Algorithms
Training
Data

NAME RANK YEARS TENURED Classifier

Mike Assistant Prof 3 no (Model)
Mary Assistant Prof 7 yes
Bill Professor 2 yes
Jim Associate Prof 7 yes
IF rank = ‘professor’
Dave Assistant Prof 6 no
Anne Associate Prof 3 no
OR years
8 >6
THEN tenured = ‘yes’
Process 2: Model Usage for Prediction
IF rank = ‘professor’
OR years > 6
THEN tenured = ‘yes’
Classifier

Testing
Data Unseen Data

(Jeff, Professor, 4)
NAME RANK YEARS TENURED
Tom Assistant Prof 2 no Tenured?
Merlisa Associate Prof 7 no
George Professor 5 yes
Joseph Assistant Prof 7 yes 9
Dividing a Dataset
• We need independent data sets to train, set
parameters, and test performance

• Thus we will often divide a data set into three

– Training set
– Parameter selection set (Validation Dataset)
– Test set

• These must be independent

• Data set 2 is not always necessary

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Model Evaluation and
Seletion

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Model Evaluation and Selection
• Evaluation metrics: How can we measure accuracy? Other metrics to
consider?

• Use test set of class-labeled tuples instead of training set when assessing
accuracy

• Some of the measures are:

– Accuracy – suitable when class tuples are evenly distributed
– Precision - suitable when class tuples are not evenly distributed
– Recall - Sensitivity

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Classifier Evaluation Metrics: Confusion Matrix
Confusion Matrix:

Actual class\Predicted class Yes No

Yes True Positives (TP) False Negatives (FN)
No False Positives (FP) True Negatives (TN)

Actual class\Predicted class buy_computer = buy_computer = Total

yes no
buy_computer = yes 6954 46 7000
buy_computer = no 412 2588 3000
Total 7366 2634 10000

• Given m classes, an entry, CMi,j in a confusion matrix indicates # of tuples in class i

that were labeled by the classifier as class j
• May have extra rows/columns to provide totals

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Classifier Evaluation Metrics: Confusion Matrix
• True Positives
– Postive tuples correctly classified as positive.

• True Negatives:
– Negative tuples correctly classified as negative.

• False Positives:
– Negative tuples incorrectly classified as positives.

• False Negatives:
– Positive tuples incorrectly classified as negatives

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Accuracy/Error Rate

A\P C ¬C
C TP FN P
¬C FP TN N
P’ N’ All

• Classifier Accuracy, or recognition rate: percentage of test set

tuples that are correctly classified
Accuracy = (TP + TN)/All

• Error rate: 1 – accuracy, or

Error rate = (FP + FN)/All

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Sensitivity and Specificity
◼ Class Imbalance Problem:
◼ One class may be rare, e.g. fraud, or HIV-positive

◼ Significant majority of the negative class and minority of the positive

class

◼ Sensitivity: True Positive recognition rate

◼ Sensitivity = TP/P

◼ Specificity: True Negative recognition rate

◼ Specificity = TN/N

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Precision and Recall, and F-measures

• Precision: exactness – what % of tuples that the classifier

labeled as positive are actually positive

• Recall: completeness – what % of positive tuples did the

classifier label as positive?
• Perfect score is 1.0

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Precision and Recall, and F-measures

• Inverse relationship between precision & recall

• F measure (F1 or F-score): harmonic mean of precision and
recall,

• Fß: weighted measure of precision and recall

– assigns ß times as much weight to recall as to precision

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Classifier Evaluation Metrics: Example
– Precision = 90/230 = 39.13% Recall = 90/300 = 30.00%

Actual Class\Predicted class cancer = yes cancer = no Total Recognition(%)

cancer = yes 90 210 300 30.00 (sensitivity

cancer = no 140 9560 9700 98.56

(specificity)

Total 230 9770 10000 96.40 (accuracy)

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Holdout Method

• Holdout method
– Given data is randomly partitioned into two independent sets
▪ Training set (e.g., 2/3) for model construction
▪ Test set (e.g., 1/3) for accuracy estimation

– Random sampling: a variation of holdout

▪ Repeat holdout k times, accuracy = avg. of the accuracies
obtained

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Cross-Validation Methods
• Cross-validation (k-fold, where k = 10 is most
popular)

– Randomly partition the data into k

mutually exclusive subsets, each
approximately equal size.

– Training and testing are performed k

times.

– At i-th iteration, use Di as test set and

others as training set

– Each set is used equal number of times

for training and once for testing.

– Accuracy = Overall correct classifications

in k iterations/total number of tuples.

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Cross-Validation Methods
– Leave-one-out: k folds where k = # of tuples, for small sized
data

– *Stratified cross-validation*:
– folds are stratified so that class dist. in each fold is approx. the
same as that in the initial data

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Decision Tree

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Decision Tree

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Decision Tree

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Apply Model To Test Data

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Example Decision Tree

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Decision Tree Classification

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Algorithm for Decision Tree Induction

• Basic algorithm (a greedy algorithm)

– Tree is constructed in a top-down recursive divide-and-conquer manner
– At start, all the training examples are at the root
– Attributes are categorical (Works best with Categorical – If values are
continuous, they can be discretized)
– Examples are partitioned recursively based on selected attributes
– Test attributes are selected on the basis of a statistical measure (e.g.,
information gain)

• Conditions for stopping partitioning

– All samples for a given node belong to the same class
– There are no remaining attributes for further partitioning – majority voting is
employed for classifying the leaf
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Decision Tree Classification

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Decision Tree Classification

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How to Determine the best Split

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How to Determine the best Split

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Brief Review of Entropy

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Attribute Selection Measure: Information Gain
(ID3/C4.5)
Computing the Entropy
 Information Gain (ID3/C4.5)
 Class P: buys_computer = “yes” 5 4
Infoage ( D) = I (2,3) + I (4,0)
 Class N: buys_computer = “no” 14 14
9 9 5 5 5
Info( D) = I (9,5) = − log 2 ( ) − log 2 ( ) =0.940 + I (3,2) = 0.694
14 14 14 14 14
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I (2,3) means “age <=30” has 5 out
age income student credit_rating buys_computer 14
<=30 high no fair no of 14 samples, with 2 yes’es and
<=30 high no excellent no 3 no’s. Hence
31…40 high no fair yes
>40 medium no fair yes
>40 low yes fair yes Gain(age) = Info( D) − Infoage ( D) = 0.246
>40 low yes excellent no Similarly,
31…40 low yes excellent yes
<=30 medium no fair no
<=30 low yes fair yes Gain(income) = 0.029
>40 medium yes fair yes
<=30 medium yes excellent yes Gain( student) = 0.151
31…40
31…40
medium no excellent
high yes fair
yes
yes
Gain(credit _ rating) = 0.048
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A Decision Tree for “Buys_Computer”

age?

<=30 overcast
30..40 >40

student? yes credit rating?

no yes excellent fair

no yes no yes

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Extracting Classification Rules from Trees

• Represent the knowledge in the form of IF-THEN rules

• One rule is created for each path from the root to a leaf
• Each attribute-value pair along a path forms a conjunction
• The leaf node holds the class prediction
• Rules are easier for humans to understand
• Example
IF age = “<=30” AND student = “no” THEN buys_computer = “no”
IF age = “<=30” AND student = “yes” THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “31…40” THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “>40” AND credit_rating = “excellent” THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “<=30” AND credit_rating = “fair” THEN buys_computer = “no”

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 Gain Ratio (C4.5)
• Information gain measure is biased towards attributes
with a large number of values
• C4.5 (a successor of ID3) uses gain ratio to overcome the
problem (normalization to information gain)
v | Dj | | Dj |
SplitInfoA ( D) = −  log 2 ( )
j =1 |D| |D|
– Gain_Ratio(A) = Gain(A)/SplitInfo(A)
• Ex.

– Gain_Ratio (income) = 0.029/1.557 = 0.019

• The attribute with the maximum gain ratio is selected as

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Comparing Attribute Selection
Measures
• The three measures, in general, return good results but

– Information gain:
▪ biased towards multi-valued attributes

– Gain ratio:
▪ tends to prefer unbalanced splits in which one partition is
much smaller than the others

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 Other Attribute Selection Measures
• CHAID: a popular decision tree algorithm, measure based on χ2 test for
independence

• C-SEP: performs better than info. gain and gini index in certain cases

• G-statistic: has a close approximation to χ2 distribution

• MDL (Minimal Description Length) principle (i.e., the simplest solution is

preferred):

– The best tree as the one that requires the fewest # of bits to both (1)
encode the tree, and (2) encode the exceptions to the tree

• Multivariate splits (partition based on multiple variable combinations)

• CART: finds multivariate splits based on a linear comb. of attrs.

• Which attribute selection measure is the best?
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– Most give good results, none is significantly superior than others
Thank You

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