Questions tagged [discriminative-models]

I've recently been studying generative and discriminative models, and I had a question regarding text generation. I'm aware that generative models model $P(X, Y)$ and discriminative models model $P(Y | X)$. I'm also aware that generative models are…

In today's lecture we learnt that k-means would be generative model. I am really puzzled on this because in my intuition it would be more a discriminative model since there is no probability to predict the classes given a number of values and…

I've read somewhere that generative models are better than discriminative ones to detect outliers in our dataset—why is that true? I think its somehow related to decision boundaries and equiprobability curves, but can't get the entire intuition.…