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In the field of [[machine learning]], the goal of [[statistical classification]] is to use an object's characteristics to identify which class (or group) it belongs to. A '''linear classifier''' achieves this by making a classification decision based on the value of a [[linear combination]] of the characteristics.  An object's characteristics are also known as [[Features (pattern recognition)|feature values]] and are typically presented to the machine in a vector called a [[feature vector]].
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== Definition ==
[[Image:Svm separating hyperplanes.png|thumb|right|In this case, the solid and empty dots can be correctly classified by any number of linear classifiers. H1 (blue) classifies them correctly, as does H2 (red). H2 could be considered "better" in the sense that it is also furthest from both groups.
H3 (green) fails to correctly classify the dots.]]
 
If the input feature vector to the classifier is a [[real number|real]] vector <math>\vec x</math>, then the output score is
 
:<math>y = f(\vec{w}\cdot\vec{x}) = f\left(\sum_j w_j x_j\right),</math>
 
where <math>\vec w</math> is a real vector of weights and ''f'' is a function that converts the [[dot product]] of the two vectors into the desired output. (In other words, <math>\vec{w}</math> is a [[one-form]] or [[linear functional]] mapping <math>\vec x</math> onto '''R'''.) The weight vector <math>\vec w</math> is learned from a set of labeled training samples. Often ''f'' is a simple function that maps all values above a certain threshold to the first class and all other values to the second class. A more complex ''f'' might give the probability that an item belongs to a certain class.
 
For a two-class classification problem, one can visualize the operation of a linear classifier as splitting a high-dimensional input space with a [[hyperplane]]: all points on one side of the hyperplane are classified as "yes", while the others are classified as "no".
 
A linear classifier is often used in situations where the speed of classification is an issue, since it is often the fastest classifier, especially when <math>\vec x</math> is sparse. Also, linear classifiers often work very well when the number of dimensions in <math>\vec x</math> is large, as in [[document classification]], where each element in <math>\vec x</math> is typically the number of occurrences of a word in a document (see [[document-term matrix]]). In such cases, the classifier should be well-[[regularization (machine learning)|regularized]].
 
==Generative models vs. discriminative models==
There are two broad classes of methods for determining the parameters of a linear classifier <math>\vec w</math>.<ref>T. Mitchell, Generative and Discriminative Classifiers: Naive Bayes and Logistic Regression. Draft Version, 2005 [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook/NBayesLogReg.pdf download]</ref><ref>A. Y. Ng and M. I. Jordan. On Discriminative vs. Generative Classifiers: A comparison of logistic regression and Naive Bayes.  in NIPS 14, 2002. [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/ng-jordan-nips01.ps download]</ref> Methods of the first class model [[conditional probability|conditional density functions]] <math>P(\vec x|{\rm class})</math>. Examples of such algorithms include:
* [[linear discriminant analysis|Linear Discriminant Analysis (or Fisher's linear discriminant)]] (LDA)—assumes [[normal distribution|Gaussian]] conditional density models
* [[Naive Bayes classifier]] with multinomial or multivariate Bernoulli event models.
 
The second set of methods includes [[discriminative model]]s, which attempt to maximize the quality of the output on a [[training set]]. Additional terms in the training cost function can easily perform [[regularization (machine learning)|regularization]] of the final model. Examples of discriminative training of linear classifiers include
* [[Logistic regression]]—maximum likelihood estimation of <math>\vec w</math> assuming that the observed training set was generated by a binomial model that depends on the output of the classifier.
* [[Perceptron]]—an algorithm that attempts to fix all errors encountered in the training set
* [[Support vector machine]]—an algorithm that maximizes the [[Margin (machine learning)|margin]] between the decision hyperplane and the examples in the training set.
 
'''Note:'''  Despite its name, LDA does not belong to the class of discriminative models in this taxonomy. However, its name makes sense when we compare LDA to the other main linear [[dimensionality reduction]] algorithm: [[principal components analysis|Principal Components Analysis]] (PCA). LDA is a [[supervised learning]] algorithm that utilizes the labels of the data, while PCA is an [[unsupervised learning]] algorithm that ignores the labels. To summarize, the name is a historical artifact (see,<ref>R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, D.G. Stork, "Pattern Classification", Wiley, (2001). ISBN 0-471-05669-3</ref> p.&nbsp;117).
 
Discriminative training often yields higher accuracy than modeling the conditional density functions. However, handling missing data is often easier with conditional density models.
 
All of the linear classifier algorithms listed above can be converted into non-linear algorithms operating on a different input space <math>\varphi(\vec x)</math>, using the [[kernel trick]].
 
== See also ==
* [[Winnow (algorithm)]]
* [[Quadratic classifier]]
* [[Support Vector Machines]]
 
== Notes ==
<references/>
See also:
# Y. Yang, X. Liu, "A re-examination of text categorization", Proc. ACM SIGIR Conference, pp.&nbsp;42–49, (1999). [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/yang99reexamination.html paper @ citeseer]
# R. Herbrich, "Learning Kernel Classifiers: Theory and Algorithms," MIT Press, (2001). ISBN 0-262-08306-X
 
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