Why Generative Model Doesn’t Work Well For Classification Task

Generative vs discriminative classifiers (image source: https://learnopencv.com/generative-and-discriminative-models/)

We heard about Generative models, and some of them are achieving incredible outcomes, such as GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks), GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). While gaining notice from researchers in NLP and computer vision, do generative models work on simple machine learning tasks such as text classification?

First, let’s see what models belong to generative models and how do they work

1. Generative Model

There are quite a few popular models, which can be …

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