Just checking , u r testing Cbayes on a model that's already been trained using 
Cbayes correct?

Also the jira I mentioned earlier was fixed for .9, so u should be good. No 
code changes were done to naive bayes since .9


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> On Mar 27, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Chandler Burgess <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'll uncomment those lines and see. I also have plenty of test data 
> available  too (I'm doing document classification with unbalanced classes), 
> so I'll see if it improves there as well.
> 
> Also, I'll try to make some time in the next week and go over the algorithm 
> in detail compared with the paper as an extra check.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chandler
> ________________________________________
> From: Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: MAHOUT-1369 - Why does theta normalization for naive bayes 
> classification commented out?
> 
> Hi Chandler,
> 
> I think a good way to go would be to reenable theta normalization and
> run the classification examples that we already have to see how it
> affects the result (and make sure it improves the result).
> 
> Would be great to have this fixed. I'm also planning to port NB to our
> Spark DSL very soon (should be just a few lines of code).
> 
> --sebastian
> 
> 
>> On 03/27/2014 09:07 PM, Suneel Marthi wrote:
>> Which Mahout version r u running? While its true that ThetaNormalizer is 
>> still disabled today, Mahout-1389 fixes a bug wherein Complementary NB 
>> wasn't being called when invoked.
>> 
>> Please test with Mahout 0.9 or trunk.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, March 27, 2014 3:53 PM, Chandler Burgess 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> It seems Robin Anil hasn't responded, and no one is sure of the status on 
>> this. What needs to be done on this, and/or what can I do to help? I'm no ML 
>> expert, but I do have the paper and should be able to verify/fix the 
>> implementation. I'm REALLY interested in using the CNB classifier, since it 
>> seems well suited to the problem I'm trying to tackle, before I give up and 
>> use something else.
>> 
>> I've done tests and see no difference when -c is passed on the command line 
>> for training or testing. I also wrote a program to print the scores using 
>> StandardNaiveBayesClassifier and ComplementaryNaiveBayesClassifier in a 
>> binary classification problem and see no difference between the scores, so 
>> it seems complementary naïve bayes is completely disabled.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chandler Burgess
> 

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