Introduction to Machine Learning. Episode 6, Bayesian Models for Probability Prediction.
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Michael Littman
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020.
A program need not understand the content of an email to know with high probability that it's spam. Discover how machine learning does so with the Naive Bayes approach, which is a simplified application of Bayes' theorem to a simplified model of language generation. The technique illustrates a very useful strategy: going backward from effects (in this case, words) to their causes (spam).