Bayes and CBayes classifier is implemented as extension of
AbstractVectorClassifier.

In the current version, I had to make the following hacks


   /**

   * Returns the number of categories for the target variable.  A vector
classifier

   * will encode it's output using a zero-based 1 of numCategories encoding.

   * @return The number of categories.

   */

  public abstract int numCategories();


return number of labels;


  /**

   * Classify a vector returning a vector of numCategories-1 scores.  It is
assumed that

   * the score for the missing category is one minus the sum of the scores
that are returned.

   *

   * Note that the missing score is the 0-th score.

   * @param instance  A feature vector to be classified.

   * @return  A vector of probabilities in 1 of n-1 encoding.

   */

  public abstract Vector classify(Vector instance);


The classifier scores are converted to 0-1 score as ratios(clearly, they are
not probabilities) What should I do here?


  /**

   * Classifies a vector in the special case of a binary classifier where

   * <code>classify(Vector)</code> would return a vector with only one
element.  As such,

   * using this method can void the allocation of a vector.

   * @param instance   The feature vector to be classified.

   * @return The score for category 1.

   *

   * @see #classify(Vector)

   */

  public abstract double classifyScalar(Vector instance);

This returns unsuported operation exception



   /**

   * Classify a vector, but don't apply the inverse link function.  For
logistic regression

   * and other generalized linear models, this is just the linear part of
the classification.

   * @param features  A feature vector to be classified.

   * @return  A vector of scores.  If transformed by the link function,
these will become probabilities.

   */

  public Vector classifyNoLink(Vector features);


This returns the scores of each class label in the vector


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Since there is not online learning, I need a batch trainer interface or not?

Is there any interface defined for loading and saving Model ?


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