Re:You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well ...
by PeterisP on Monday April 23, 2018 @12:25PM
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Can you give one example where Naive Bayes has been used with great accuracy for so long?
Naive Bayes is a common baseline solution because it's very simple to implement and very fast to run; however, pretty much any other ML method gives better accuracy than Naive Bayes. Sometimes the accuracy improvement is small and doesn't justify the highly increased computing cost, though, so Naive Bayes becomes the appropriate method to use, but it's not because of its accuracy.
Naive Bayes is a common baseline solution because it's very simple to implement and very fast to run; however, pretty much any other ML method gives better accuracy than Naive Bayes. Sometimes the accuracy improvement is small and doesn't justify the highly increased computing cost, though, so Naive Bayes becomes the appropriate method to use, but it's not because of its accuracy.