Generative Classification¶

• [1] You have a machine that measures property $x$, the "orangeness" of liquids. You wish to discriminate between $C_1 = \text{`Fanta'}$ and $C_2 = \text{`Orangina'}$. It is known that

$$\begin{align*} p(x|C_1) &= \begin{cases} 10 & 1.0 \leq x \leq 1.1\\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}\\ p(x|C_2) &= \begin{cases} 200(x - 1) & 1.0 \leq x \leq 1.1\\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} \end{align*}$$

The prior probabilities $p(C_1) = 0.6$ and $p(C_2) = 0.4$ are also known from experience.
(a) (##) A "Bayes Classifier" is given by

$$ \text{Decision} = \begin{cases} C_1 & \text{if } p(C_1|x)>p(C_2|x) \\ C_2 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} $$

Derive the optimal Bayes classifier.
(b) (###) The probability of making the wrong decision, given $x$, is

$$ p(\text{error}|x)= p(C_1|x,\text{we-decide-}C_2) + p(C_2|x,\text{we-decide-}C_1) $$

Compute the total error probability $p(\text{error})$ for the Bayes classifier in this example.

• [2] (#) (see Bishop exercise 4.8): Using (4.57) and (4.58) (from Bishop's book), derive the result (4.65) for the posterior class probability in the two-class generative model with Gaussian densities, and verify the results (4.66) and (4.67) for the parameters $w$ and $w0$.

• [3] (##) (see Bishop exercise 4.10).

Discriminative Classification¶

• [1] Given a data set $D=\{(x_1,y_1),\ldots,(x_N,y_N)\}$, where $x_n \in \mathbb{R}^M$ and $y_n \in \{0,1\}$. The probabilistic classification method known as logistic regression attempts to model these data as

$$p(y_n=1|x_n) = \sigma(\theta^T x_n + b)$$

where $\sigma(x) = 1/(1+e^{-x})$ is the logistic function. Let's introduce shorthand notation $\mu_n=\sigma(\theta^T x_n + b)$. So, for every input $x_n$, we have a model output $\mu_n$ and an actual data output $y_n$.
(a) Express $p(y_n|x_n)$ as a Bernoulli distribution in terms of $\mu_n$ and $y_n$.
(b) If furthermore is given that the data set is IID, show that the log-likelihood is given by $$ L(\theta) \triangleq \log p(D|\theta) = \sum_n \left\{y_n \log \mu_n + (1-y_n)\log(1-\mu_n)\right\} $$
(c) Prove that the derivative of the logistic function is given by $$ \sigma^\prime(\xi) = \sigma(\xi)\cdot\left(1-\sigma(\xi)\right) $$
(d) Show that the derivative of the log-likelihood is $$ \nabla_\theta L(\theta) = \sum_{n=1}^N \left( y_n - \sigma(\theta^T x_n +b)\right)x_n $$
(e) Design a gradient-ascent algorithm for maximizing $L(\theta)$ with respect to $\theta$.

• [2] Describe shortly the similarities and differences between the discriminative and generative approach to classification.

• [3] (Bishop ex.4.7) (#) Show that the logistic sigmoid function $\sigma(a) = \frac{1}{1+\exp(-a)}$ satisfies the property $\sigma(-a) = 1-\sigma(a)$ and that its inverse is given by $\sigma^{-1}(y) = \log\{y/(1-y)\}$.

• [4] (###) Let $X$ be a real valued random variable with probability density

$$ p_X(x) = \frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}},\quad\text{for all $x$}. $$

Also $Y$ is a real valued random variable with conditional density $$ p_{Y|X}(y|x) = \frac{e^{-(y-x)^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}},\quad\text{for all $x$ and $y$}. $$ (a) Give an (integral) expression for $p_Y(y)$. Do not try to evaluate the integral.
(b) Approximate $p_Y(y)$ using the Laplace approximation. Give the detailed derivation, not just the answer. Hint: You may use the following results. Let $$g(x) = \frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}$$ and $$ h(x) = \frac{e^{-(y-x)^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}$$ for some real value $y$. Then: $$\begin{align*} \frac{\partial}{\partial x} g(x) &= -xg(x) \\ \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} g(x) &= (x^2-1)g(x) \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial x} h(x) &= (y-x)h(x) \\ \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} h(x) &= ((y-x)^2-1)h(x) \end{align*}$$