Performance of Various Naïve Bayes Using GridSearch Approach In Phishing Email Dataset

Abstract

The background is the increasing cybersecurity threats in the form of phishing attacks that can be detrimental to individuals and organizations. The purpose of this research is to compare the performance of four Naive Bayes variants in classifying phishing emails with a method that involves a data pre-processing stage, phishing emails are collected, cleaned, and converted into appropriate numerical features. Next, the GridSearch approach was used to find the best parameters. This research objective is to understand how each Naive Bayes variant works on phishing email datasets. This phishing detection task is based on the following performance evaluation criteria such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. In this study, Bernoulli got the best accuracy of 97.34% but when the results obtained a hyperparameter, the results showed an increase with the most optimal results and the best performance is Bernoulli 97.38%. The research results are to provide an in-depth insight into the effectiveness of each variant of Naive Bayes in dealing with phishing email datasets and researchers in selecting the most suitable Naive Bayes variant for phishing detection tasks. In addition, the applied GridSearch method can guide how to find the best parameters for Naive Bayes models in other contexts. In summary, this study focuses on analyzing the performance of four variants of Naive Bayes Gaussian, Multinomial, Complement, and Bernoulli with the best algorithms Bernoulli 97.38%.

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