Generative Model, Discriminative Model.
of P(x|y) tractable. Naive Bayes classifier can serve as a perfect example of a generative model with such assumption, which makes computation of P(x|y) easier. Namely, it has independence assumption between the features xi, …, xn. P(x|y) = П P(xi|y) With this relaxation, estimation of P(x|y) is