Mahout currently has two Naive Bayes implementations. The first is standard Multinomial Naive Bayes. The second is an implementation of Transformed Weight-normalized Complement Naive Bayes as introduced by Rennie et al. [1]. We refer to the former as Bayes and the latter as CBayes.
Where Bayes has long been a standard in text classification, CBayes is an extension of Bayes that performs particularly well on datasets with skewed classes and has been shown to be competitive with algorithms of higher complexity such as Support Vector Machines.
Both Bayes and CBayes are currently trained via MapReduce Jobs. Testing and classification can be done via a MapReduce Job or sequentially. Mahout provides CLI drivers for preprocessing, training and testing. A Spark implementation is currently in the works (MAHOUT-1493).
As described in [1] Mahout Naive Bayes is broken down into the following steps (assignments are over all possible index values):
\(\vec{d}=(\vec{d_1},...,\vec{d_n})\) be a set of documents; \(d_{ij}\) is the count of word \(i\) in document \(j\).\(\vec{y}=(y_1,...,y_n)\) be their labels.\(\alpha_i\) be a smoothing parameter for all words in the vocabulary; let \(\alpha=\sum_i{\alpha_i}\).\(\vec{d}\)
\(d_{ij} = \sqrt{d_{ij}}\)\(d_{ij} = d_{ij}\left(\log{\frac{\sum_k1}{\sum_k\delta_{ik}+1}}+1\right)\)\(d_{ij} =\frac{d_{ij}}{\sqrt{\sum_k{d_{kj}^2}}}\)\((\vec{d},\vec{y})\) calculate term weights \(w_{ci}\) as:
\(\hat\theta_{ci}=\frac{d_{ic}+\alpha_i}{\sum_k{d_{kc}}+\alpha}\)\(w_{ci}=\log{\hat\theta_{ci}}\)\((\vec{d},\vec{y})\) calculate term weights \(w_{ci}\) as:
\(\hat\theta_{ci} = \frac{\sum_{j:y_j\neq c}d_{ij}+\alpha_i}{\sum_{j:y_j\neq c}{\sum_k{d_{kj}}}+\alpha}\)\(w_{ci}=-\log{\hat\theta_{ci}}\)\(w_{ci}=\frac{w_{ci}}{\sum_i \lvert w_{ci}\rvert}\)\(\vec{t}= (t_1,...,t_n)\) be a test document; let \(t_i\) be the count of the word \(t\).\(l(t)=\arg\max_c \sum\limits_{i} t_i w_{ci}\)As we can see, the main difference between Bayes and CBayes is the weight calculation step. Where Bayes weighs terms more heavily based on the likelihood that they belong to class \(c\), CBayes seeks to maximize term weights on the likelihood that they do not belong to any other class.
Mahout provides CLI drivers for all above steps. Here we will give a simple overview of Mahout CLI commands used to preprocess the data, train the model and assign labels to the training set. An example script is given for the full process from data acquisition through classification of the classic 20 Newsgroups corpus.
Preprocessing: For a set of Sequence File Formatted documents in PATH_TO_SEQUENCE_FILES the mahout seq2sparse command performs the TF-IDF transformations (-wt tfidf option) and L2 length normalization (-n 2 option) as follows:
mahout seq2sparse
-i ${PATH_TO_SEQUENCE_FILES}
-o ${PATH_TO_TFIDF_VECTORS}
-nv
-n 2
-wt tfidf
Training:
The model is then trained using mahout trainnb . The default is to train a Bayes model. The -c option is given to train a CBayes model:
mahout trainnb
-i ${PATH_TO_TFIDF_VECTORS}
-o ${PATH_TO_MODEL}/model
-li ${PATH_TO_MODEL}/labelindex
-ow
-c
Label Assignment/Testing:
Classification and testing on a holdout set can then be performed via mahout testnb. Again, the -c option indicates that the model is CBayes. The -seq option tells mahout testnb to run sequentially:
mahout testnb
-i ${PATH_TO_TFIDF_TEST_VECTORS}
-m ${PATH_TO_MODEL}/model
-l ${PATH_TO_MODEL}/labelindex
-ow
-o ${PATH_TO_OUTPUT}
-c
-seq
Preprocessing:
Only relevant parameters used for Bayes/CBayes as detailed above are shown. Several other transformations can be performed by mahout seq2sparse and used as input to Bayes/CBayes. For a full list of mahout seq2Sparse options see the Creating vectors from text page.
mahout seq2sparse
--output (-o) output The directory pathname for output.
--input (-i) input Path to job input directory.
--weight (-wt) weight The kind of weight to use. Currently TF
or TFIDF. Default: TFIDF
--norm (-n) norm The norm to use, expressed as either a
float or "INF" if you want to use the
Infinite norm. Must be greater or equal
to 0. The default is not to normalize
--overwrite (-ow) If set, overwrite the output directory
--sequentialAccessVector (-seq) (Optional) Whether output vectors should
be SequentialAccessVectors. If set true
else false
--namedVector (-nv) (Optional) Whether output vectors should
be NamedVectors. If set true else false
Training:
mahout trainnb
--input (-i) input Path to job input directory.
--output (-o) output The directory pathname for output.
--alphaI (-a) alphaI Smoothing parameter. Default is 1.0
--trainComplementary (-c) Train complementary? Default is false.
--labelIndex (-li) labelIndex The path to store the label index in
--overwrite (-ow) If present, overwrite the output directory
before running job
--help (-h) Print out help
--tempDir tempDir Intermediate output directory
--startPhase startPhase First phase to run
--endPhase endPhase Last phase to run
Testing:
mahout testnb
--input (-i) input Path to job input directory.
--output (-o) output The directory pathname for output.
--overwrite (-ow) If present, overwrite the output directory
before running job
--model (-m) model The path to the model built during training
--testComplementary (-c) Test complementary? Default is false.
--runSequential (-seq) Run sequential?
--labelIndex (-l) labelIndex The path to the location of the label index
--help (-h) Print out help
--tempDir tempDir Intermediate output directory
--startPhase startPhase First phase to run
--endPhase endPhase Last phase to run
Mahout provides an example for Naive Bayes classification: