Unbelievable Explanation!! I have referred to more than 10 videos where basic working flow of this model was explained but I must say that rather I'm sure that this is the most easiest explanation one can ever find on youtube , the way of explanation considering the practical approach was much needed and you did exactly that Thanks a ton man !
To get to the probabilities in the top right of the board, you keep applying P(A,B)=P(A|B).P(B) ... eg. A=C3, B=C2 x C1 x M3 x M2 x M1 ... keep applying P(A,B)=P(A|B).P(B) and you will end up with same probabilities as shown on the whiteboard top right of screen for the viewer. Great video!
Sorry, but I still don't get the calculation at the end. The whole video was explained flawlessly but the calculation was left out. I don't understand. If you can please further help. Thankyou.
@@ummerabab8297 Here is some code in python showing the calculations in the output, you'll see that the hidden sequence s->s->h has the highest probability (0.018) ##### code #################### def get_most_likely(): starting_probs={'h' :.4, 's':.6} transition_probs={'hh':.7, 'hs':.3, 'sh':.5, 'ss':.5, } emission_probs = {'hr':.8, 'hg':.1,'hb':.1, 'sr':.2, 'sg':.3, 'sb':.5} mood={1:'h', 0:'s'} # for generating all 8 possible choices using BitMasking observed_clothes = 'gbr' def calc_prob(hidden_states:str)->int: res = starting_probs[hidden_states[:1]] # Prob(m1) res *= transition_probs[hidden_states[:2]] # Prob(m2|m2) res *= transition_probs[hidden_states[1:3]] # Prob(m3|m2) res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[0]+observed_clothes[0]] # Prob(c1|m1) res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[1]+observed_clothes[1]] # Prob(c2|m2) res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[2]+observed_clothes[2]] # Prob(c2|m3) return res #Use BitMasking to generate all possible combinations of hidden states 's' and 'h' for i in range(8): hidden_states = [] binary = i for _ in range(3): hidden_states.append(mood[binary&1]) binary //=2 hidden_states = "".join(hidden_states) print(hidden_states, round(calc_prob(hidden_states),5)) ##### Output ###### sss 0.0045 hss 0.0006 shs 0.00054 hhs 0.000168 ssh 0.018 hsh 0.0024 shh 0.00504 hhh 0.001568
Glad I found your videos. Whenever I need some explanation for hard things in Machine Learning, I come to your channel. And you always explain things so simply. Great work man. Keep it up.
I have 2 questions: 1. The Markov assumption seems VERY strong. How can we guarantee the current state only depends on the previous state? (e.g., person has an outfit for the day of the week instead of based on yesterday) 2. How do we collect the transition/emission probabilities if the state is hidden?
Wonderful explanation. I hand calculated a couple of sequences and then coded up a brute force solution for this small problem. This helped a lot! Really appreciate the video!
This helped me at the best time possible!! I didn't know jack about the math a while ago, but now I have a general grasp of the concept and was able to chart down my own problem as you were explaining the example. Thank you so much!!
After watching this it left me with the impression that local maximization of conditional probabilities lead to global maximization of the hidden markov model. Seems too good to be true... I guess the hard part is finding out the hidden state transition probabilities?
Dear ritvik, I watch your videos and I like the way you explain. Regarding this HMM, the stationary vector π is [0.625, 0.375] for the states [happy, sad] respectively. You can check the correct stationary vector by multiplying it with the transpose of the Transition probability Matrix, then it should result the same stationary vector as result: import numpy as np B = np.array([[0.7, 0.3], [0.5, 0.5]]) pi_B = np.array([0.625, 0.375]) np.matmul(B.T, pi_B) array([0.625, 0.375])
thanks for the video! I've watched two other videos but this one is the easiest to understand HMM and I also like that you added the real-life application NLP example at the end
I agree Teaching is an art. You have mastered it. Application to real world scenarios are really helpful. Really feel so confident after watching your videos. Question, How did we get the probabilities to start with? are those arbitrary or followed any scientific method to arrive at those numbers?
Thanks a lot for sharing. It is very clearly explained. Just wondering why the objective we want to optimize is not the conditional probability P(M=m | C = c).
At 2:13, the lecturer says, "it's not random" whether the professor wears a red/green/blue shirt. Not true. It is random. It's random but dependent on the happy/sad state of the professor. Sorry to nitpick. I definitely enjoyed this video :)
Why are we maximizing the joint probability? Shouldn't the task to find the most likely hidden sequence GIVEN the observed sequence? i.e. maximizing the conditional probability argmax P(m1m2m3| c1c2c3)?
Really crisp explanation. I just have a query. When you say that the mood on a given day "only" depends on the mood the previous day, this statement seems to come with a caveat. Because if it "only" depended on the previous day's mood, then the Markov chain will be trivial. I think what you mean is that the dependence is a conditional probability on the previous day's mood: meaning, given today's mood, there is a "this percent" chance that tomorrow's mood will be this and a "that percent" chance that tomorrow's mood will be that. "this percent" and "that percent" summing up to 1, obviously. The word "only" somehow conveyed a probability of one. I hope I am able to clearly explain.
Great video to get an intuition for HMMs. Two minor notes: 1. There might be an ambiguity of the state sad (S) and the start symbol (S), which might have been resolved by renaming one or the other 2. About the example configuration of hidden states which maximizes P: I think this should be written as a tuple (s, s, h) rather than a set {s, s, h} since the order is relevant? Keep up the good work! :-)
I wish you went through Bayes Nets before coming to HMM. That would make the conditional probabilities so much more easier to understand for HMMs. Great explanation though !! :)
Ritvik, great videos.. I have learnt a lot.. thx. A quick Q re: HMM. How does one create transition matrix for hidden states when in fact you don't know the states.. thx!
Great video, however I was wondering if the hidden state transitioning probabilities are unknown, is there a way to compute/calculate them based on the observations?
oooh I get it now! Thank you so much :-) you have an excellent way of explaining things and I didn’t feel like there was 1 word too much (or too little)!
Thank you, that was a very clear introduction. They key thing I don't get is where the transition and emission probabilities come from. In a real-world problem, how do you get at those?
In the case of the NLP example with part of speech tagging, the model would need data consisting of sentences that are assigned tags by humans. The problem is that there isn't much of that data lying around.
appreciate that the professor was a 'she' took me by surprise and made me smile :) also great explanation, made me remember that learning is actually fun when you understand what the fuck is going on
@ritvikmath Any chance of a follow up video covering some of the algos like Baum-Welch, Viterbi, please? ... i'm sure you could explain them well. Thanks a lot.
Good suggestion! I'll look into it for my next round of videos. Usually I'll throw a general topic out there and use the comments to inform future videos. Thanks!
Thanks! And yes exactly, we can do that. In practice, of course with many time periods and states this gets too expensive so we have more efficient ways to compare them but at the end of the day we are still getting the maximum.
Hey in future videos could you provide an unobstructed view of the board, either at the beginning or end of the video, just for a few seconds? Sometimes it’s helpful to screenshot your notes
Unbelievable Explanation!! I have referred to more than 10 videos where basic working flow of this model was explained but I must say that rather I'm sure that this is the most easiest explanation one can ever find on youtube , the way of explanation considering the practical approach was much needed and you did exactly that
Thanks a ton man !
True experts always make it easy.
Crystal-clear explanation. Didn't have to pause video or go back at any point of video. Would definitely recommend to my students.
I have to say you have an underrated way of providing intuition and making difficult to understand concepts really easy.
To get to the probabilities in the top right of the board, you keep applying P(A,B)=P(A|B).P(B) ... eg. A=C3, B=C2 x C1 x M3 x M2 x M1 ... keep applying P(A,B)=P(A|B).P(B) and you will end up with same probabilities as shown on the whiteboard top right of screen for the viewer. Great video!
Thanks for that!
Sorry, but I still don't get the calculation at the end. The whole video was explained flawlessly but the calculation was left out. I don't understand. If you can please further help. Thankyou.
@@ummerabab8297
Here is some code in python showing the calculations
in the output, you'll see that the hidden sequence s->s->h has the highest probability (0.018)
##### code ####################
def get_most_likely():
starting_probs={'h' :.4, 's':.6}
transition_probs={'hh':.7, 'hs':.3,
'sh':.5, 'ss':.5, }
emission_probs = {'hr':.8, 'hg':.1,'hb':.1,
'sr':.2, 'sg':.3, 'sb':.5}
mood={1:'h', 0:'s'} # for generating all 8 possible choices using BitMasking
observed_clothes = 'gbr'
def calc_prob(hidden_states:str)->int:
res = starting_probs[hidden_states[:1]] # Prob(m1)
res *= transition_probs[hidden_states[:2]] # Prob(m2|m2)
res *= transition_probs[hidden_states[1:3]] # Prob(m3|m2)
res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[0]+observed_clothes[0]] # Prob(c1|m1)
res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[1]+observed_clothes[1]] # Prob(c2|m2)
res *= emission_probs[hidden_states[2]+observed_clothes[2]] # Prob(c2|m3)
return res
#Use BitMasking to generate all possible combinations of hidden states 's' and 'h'
for i in range(8):
hidden_states = []
binary = i
for _ in range(3):
hidden_states.append(mood[binary&1])
binary //=2
hidden_states = "".join(hidden_states)
print(hidden_states, round(calc_prob(hidden_states),5))
##### Output ######
sss 0.0045
hss 0.0006
shs 0.00054
hhs 0.000168
ssh 0.018
hsh 0.0024
shh 0.00504
hhh 0.001568
@@toyomicho I had the same doubt. Thanks for the code! Would be better if author pins this.
Thank you for explaining how HMM model works. You are a grade saver and explained this more clearly than a professor.
Glad it was helpful!
Glad I found your videos. Whenever I need some explanation for hard things in Machine Learning, I come to your channel. And you always explain things so simply. Great work man. Keep it up.
Glad to help!
I have 2 questions:
1. The Markov assumption seems VERY strong. How can we guarantee the current state only depends on the previous state? (e.g., person has an outfit for the day of the week instead of based on yesterday)
2. How do we collect the transition/emission probabilities if the state is hidden?
Really great explanation of this in an easy to understand format. Slightly criminal to not at least walk through the math on the problem, though.
You gave the clearest explanation of this important topic I've ever seen! Thank you!
Wonderful explanation. I hand calculated a couple of sequences and then coded up a brute force solution for this small problem. This helped a lot! Really appreciate the video!
This helped me at the best time possible!! I didn't know jack about the math a while ago, but now I have a general grasp of the concept and was able to chart down my own problem as you were explaining the example. Thank you so much!!
This guy is underrated for real. Love you bro.
Im continually amazed by how well and easy to understand you can teach, you are indeed an amazing teacher
Really appreciate your work. Much better than the professor in my class who has a pppppphhhhdddd degree.
After watching this it left me with the impression that local maximization of conditional probabilities lead to global maximization of the hidden markov model. Seems too good to be true... I guess the hard part is finding out the hidden state transition probabilities?
I don't know why I had paid for my course and then came here to learn. Great explanation, thank you!
The best ever explanation on HMM
thanks!
Dear ritvik, I watch your videos and I like the way you explain. Regarding this HMM, the stationary vector π is [0.625, 0.375] for the states [happy, sad] respectively. You can check the correct stationary vector by multiplying it with the transpose of the Transition probability Matrix, then it should result the same stationary vector as result:
import numpy as np
B = np.array([[0.7, 0.3], [0.5, 0.5]])
pi_B = np.array([0.625, 0.375])
np.matmul(B.T, pi_B)
array([0.625, 0.375])
I really enjoyed this explanation. Very nice, very straightforward, and consistent. It helped me to understand the concept very fast.
Glad it was helpful!
You are a great professor! Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video all the best to you.
Thank you so much for your clear explanation!!! Look forward to learning more machine-learning related math.
If there is a concept I did not understand from my lectures, an i see there is a video by this channel, i know I will understand it afterwards.
thanks!
@@ritvikmath no, thank you! Ever thought of teaching at an university?
thanks for the video! I've watched two other videos but this one is the easiest to understand HMM and I also like that you added the real-life application NLP example at the end
Glad it was helpful!
I feel like this is a great model to use to understand how time exists inside our minds
This explanation is concise and clear. Thanks a lot!
Of course!
Nice explanation!!
One of the usecases mentioned was NLP. I am wondering if HMM will be helpful given that we now have Transformers architectures.
Great Video. But how did you calculate {SSH} is maximum?
You explain very well!
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As usual awesome explanation...After referring to tons of videos, I understood it clearly only after this video...Thank you for your efforts and time
You are most welcome
You are great! Subscribed with notification after only the first 5 minutes listening to you! :-)
Aw thank you !!
A great video. I am glad I discovered your channel today.
Welcome aboard!
i had to rewind the videos a few times, but eventually i understood it, thanks
I agree Teaching is an art. You have mastered it. Application to real world scenarios are really helpful. Really feel so confident after watching your videos. Question, How did we get the probabilities to start with? are those arbitrary or followed any scientific method to arrive at those numbers?
I'm curious too. Did you figure it out?
Such a great explanation! Thank you sir.
Thanks a lot for sharing. It is very clearly explained. Just wondering why the objective we want to optimize is not the conditional probability P(M=m | C = c).
You're really good at explaining these topics. Thanks for sharing!
here is my quick implementation of the discussed problem
index_dict = {"happy": 0, "sad": 1}
start_prob = {"happy": 0.4, "sad": 0.6}
transition = [[0.7, 0.3], [0.5, 0.5]]
emission = {
"happy": {"red": 0.8, "green": 0.1, "blue": 0.1},
"sad": {"red": 0.2, "green": 0.3, "blue": 0.5},
}
observed = ["green", "blue", "red"]
cur_sequece = []
res = {}
def dfs(cur_day, cur_score):
if cur_day >= len(observed):
res["".join(cur_sequece)] = cur_score
return
cur_observation = observed[cur_day]
for mood in ["happy", "sad"]:
new_score = cur_score
new_score += emission[mood][cur_observation]
# at the start, there is no previous mood
if cur_sequece:
new_score += transition[index_dict[mood]][index_dict[cur_sequece[-1]]]
else:
new_score += start_prob[mood]
cur_sequece.append(mood)
dfs(cur_day + 1, new_score)
cur_sequece.pop()
dfs(0, 0)
print(res)
Very good explanation of HMM!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks, amazing explanation. I was looking for such video but unfortunately, those authors have bad audio.
At 2:13, the lecturer says, "it's not random" whether the professor wears a red/green/blue shirt. Not true. It is random. It's random but dependent on the happy/sad state of the professor. Sorry to nitpick. I definitely enjoyed this video :)
Fair point !! Thanks :)
best explanation over internet
Thanks!
Why are we maximizing the joint probability? Shouldn't the task to find the most likely hidden sequence GIVEN the observed sequence? i.e. maximizing the conditional probability argmax P(m1m2m3| c1c2c3)?
Thank you, please keep making content Mr. Ritvik.
Really crisp explanation. I just have a query. When you say that the mood on a given day "only" depends on the mood the previous day, this statement seems to come with a caveat. Because if it "only" depended on the previous day's mood, then the Markov chain will be trivial.
I think what you mean is that the dependence is a conditional probability on the previous day's mood: meaning, given today's mood, there is a "this percent" chance that tomorrow's mood will be this and a "that percent" chance that tomorrow's mood will be that. "this percent" and "that percent" summing up to 1, obviously.
The word "only" somehow conveyed a probability of one.
I hope I am able to clearly explain.
Incredible. All of the other videos I have watched have me feeling quite over whelmed.
glad to help!
really good work on the simple explanation of a rather complicated topic 👌🏼💪🏼 thank you very much
Really nice explanation! easy and understandable.
Great video. Perhaps a follow up will be the actual calculation of {S, S, H}
thanks for the suggestion!
I really like the way you explain something, and it helps me a lot! Thx bro!!!!
Great video to get an intuition for HMMs. Two minor notes:
1. There might be an ambiguity of the state sad (S) and the start symbol (S), which might have been resolved by renaming one or the other
2. About the example configuration of hidden states which maximizes P: I think this should be written as a tuple (s, s, h) rather than a set {s, s, h} since the order is relevant?
Keep up the good work! :-)
Thank you. That was a very impressive and clear explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
I wish you went through Bayes Nets before coming to HMM. That would make the conditional probabilities so much more easier to understand for HMMs. Great explanation though !! :)
Ritvik, great videos.. I have learnt a lot.. thx. A quick Q re: HMM. How does one create transition matrix for hidden states when in fact you don't know the states.. thx!
good explanation. But the last part of determining the moods is left out. How did you get s,s,h
Absolutely Amazing
Awesome explanation
I understood in 1 go!!
Great video, however I was wondering if the hidden state transitioning probabilities are unknown, is there a way to compute/calculate them based on the observations?
Ritvik, it might be helpful if you add some practice problems in the description
This is really great explanation
Wonderful explanation 👌
Thank you 🙂
oooh I get it now! Thank you so much :-) you have an excellent way of explaining things and I didn’t feel like there was 1 word too much (or too little)!
great video! but i was wondering why the p(C2|m3,m2,m1)..., why the m3 is related to the c2?
Very insightful. Keep up the good work.
You're such a great teacher!
You are a great teacher!
Thank you! 😃
Fantastic explanation. Thanks a lot
Most welcome!
I love your videos so much! Could you please make one video about POMDP?
Great video, nicely explained
Thank you, that was a very clear introduction. They key thing I don't get is where the transition and emission probabilities come from. In a real-world problem, how do you get at those?
In the case of the NLP example with part of speech tagging, the model would need data consisting of sentences that are assigned tags by humans. The problem is that there isn't much of that data lying around.
appreciate that the professor was a 'she'
took me by surprise and made me smile :)
also great explanation, made me remember that learning is actually fun when you understand what the fuck is going on
hey Ritvik, nice quarantine haircut! thanks for the video, great explanation as always. stay safe
thank you! please stay safe also
Brilliant explanation
Thanks!
This is great!!!!!
Is it possible to describe in a few words, how we can calculate/compute the transition- and emission probabilities?
verry nice explanation. looking forward to seeing something about quantile regression
amazing keep up very cool explenation
Thanks!
Why are there 8 possible combinations (6:10)? I got 9 from doing M1/G, M1/B, M1/R, M2/G, M2/B, M2/R, M3/G, M3/R, M3/B ?
@ritvikmath Any chance of a follow up video covering some of the algos like Baum-Welch, Viterbi, please? ... i'm sure you could explain them well. Thanks a lot.
Good suggestion! I'll look into it for my next round of videos. Usually I'll throw a general topic out there and use the comments to inform future videos. Thanks!
BIG LIKE, Absolutely awesome. just could you explain about the interpretation of {SSH}? Should we compute all 8 cases of m_i, then compare them?
Thanks! And yes exactly, we can do that. In practice, of course with many time periods and states this gets too expensive so we have more efficient ways to compare them but at the end of the day we are still getting the maximum.
Nice one
Thanks 🔥
I'd be flipping burgers without ritvikmath
What is the most common algorithm used, to maximize the probabilities? ...just to give a hint on this part of the whole model
Hey in future videos could you provide an unobstructed view of the board, either at the beginning or end of the video, just for a few seconds? Sometimes it’s helpful to screenshot your notes
Great explanation ❤️
oh man. Thanks alot :). I tried to understand here and there by reading..But I didn't get it. But this video is gold
Glad it helped!
Very insightful, thank you!
beautiful! Thank you for making this understandable
Great great explanation. Thank you!!
Damn - what a perfect explanation! Thanks so much! 🙌
Of course!
Cool. Have you done a video on how to get those probabilities from observed data? Is it using MCMC?
Ah you explained so much better than my Ivy League professor!!!
Please share how to implement it in python or matlab! Truly appreciate it!!
Please show us an implementation in python.
Good suggestion!
Can you post a video on POS tagging with CRF please
Great video
thanks !
Could you create a video on MCMC please?
How did you get that {S, S, H} ? You wrote it directly without explaining.
How did you factorize the joint into conditionals? Is there a link?
This was great. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!