Paper proposes a DAE algorithm to improve credit card fraud detection.
problem Imbalanced data classification problem in credit card fraud detection.
method Proposes a denoising autoencoder neural network (DAE) algorithm to oversample and denoise minority class samples.
result Improves classification accuracy of minority class samples in imbalanced datasets.
GenSample uses genetic algorithms to improve minority class classification in imbalanced datasets.
problem Poor classification performance on minority class in imbalanced datasets.
method GenSample uses genetic algorithms to oversample minority class, considering difficulty and performance improvement.
result GenSample achieved the highest F-Score on 8 out of 9 real-world imbalanced datasets.
Computational analysis on physiological signals would provide immense impact for enabling automated clinical analytics. However, the class imbalance issue where negative or minority class instances are rare in number impairs the robustness of the practical solution. The key idea of our approach is intelligent augmentat…
In many real-world binary classification tasks (e.g. detection of certain objects from images), an available dataset is imbalanced, i.e., it has much less representatives of a one class (a minor class), than of another. Generally, accurate prediction of the minor class is crucial but it's hard to achieve since there is…
A new sampling method balances imbalanced data using gamma distribution.
problem Imbalanced class distribution in data causes bias in classification algorithms.
method Intelligent resampling of minority class instances via gamma distribution.
result The proposed method outperforms existing techniques on 12 out of 24 datasets.
Enhanced loss function boosts fraud detection in auto insurance claims.
problem Class imbalance in auto insurance fraud detection.
method Structured three-stage training framework integrating convex surrogate, non-convex intermediate, and standard focal loss.
result Improves minority-class F1-scores and AUC compared to baseline methods.
WOTBoost improves minority class accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets lead to low accuracy in minority class classification.
method Combines weighted oversampling and boosting techniques.
result WOTBoost achieves best G mean and highest AUC score on multiple datasets.
Model for detecting rare labels in imbalanced crowdsourcing data.
problem Detecting rare labels in imbalanced crowdsourcing data.
method Generative aggregation model combining item difficulty and class-dependent annotator competence.
result Our model achieves the highest minority recall while maintaining competitive balanced accuracy.
Enhances Random Forest for imbalanced functional data classification.
problem Challenges in classifying imbalanced functional data.
method Functional Random Forest with Adaptive Cost-Sensitive Splitting (FRF-ACS).
result Significantly improves minority class recall and predictive performance.
Cyber security has grown up to be a hot issue in recent years. How to identify potential malware becomes a challenging task. To tackle this challenge, we adopt deep learning approaches and perform flow detection on real data. However, real data often encounters an issue of imbalanced data distribution which will lead t…
robROSE tackles imbalanced fraud data by creating synthetic samples and detecting outliers.
problem Detecting fraud in imbalanced data sets where fraud is a minority class.
method Combines oversampling techniques with robust statistics to handle anomalies.
result robROSE enhances fraud detection while ignoring anomalies.
Insider threat detection is getting an increased concern from academia, industry, and governments due to the growing number of malicious insider incidents. The existing approaches proposed for detecting insider threats still have a common shortcoming, which is the high number of false alarms (false positives). The chal…
The paper tackles imbalanced classification under operational constraints, proposing a framework to maximize sensitivity.
problem Detecting minority class observations under severe class imbalance and operational constraints.
method Formal classification framework under capacity constraints, maximizing sensitivity while respecting a user-defined label limit.
result The optimal classifier under capacity constraints is equivalent to the Bayes classifier with reweighted prior probabilities.
This paper explores using KDE for balanced sampling in imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced class distribution in data science.
method Kernel density estimation (KDE) for resampling the minority class.
result KDE-based resampling outperforms other techniques in F1-score and G-mean.
Decision trees can be biased towards minority class, contrary to belief.
problem Bias in decision trees towards minority class in imbalanced datasets.
method Critical evaluation of past literature, specific conditions analysis, tree-fitting adjustments, and post-hoc calibration methods.
result Decision trees can be biased towards minority class under specific conditions, not always towards majority.
Class imbalance problems manifest in domains such as financial fraud detection or network intrusion analysis, where the prevalence of one class is much higher than another. Typically, practitioners are more interested in predicting the minority class than the majority class as the minority class may carry a higher misc…
LoRAS improves model performance on imbalanced datasets by better oversampling the minority class.
problem Imbalanced datasets lead to poor model performance, especially for the majority class.
method Localized Random Affine Shadowsampling (LoRAS) to oversample minority class data.
result LoRAS generates better ML models in terms of F1-Score and Balanced accuracy compared to SMOTE and its extensions.
Robust cancer screening model using pre-trained ensembles for biomarkers.
problem Detecting early-stage cancer, especially in hard-to-diagnose cases like pancreatic cancer.
method Meta-trained Hyperfast model for robust classification, combined with ensembling of XGBoost and LightGBM.
result Achieved highest AUC of 0.9929 and robust performance on imbalanced datasets.
The paper extends logistic regression for unbounded majority classes and derives asymptotic properties.
problem Infinitely imbalanced logistic regression inference.
method Derive a second order expansion for slope parameter under unbounded majority class.
result The second order term converges to a normal distribution with a variance depending only on the minority class's mean.
The paper addresses over-fitting in deep learning models trained on imbalanced data.
problem Over-fitting to minor classes in deep learning models trained on imbalanced data.
method Investigated feature deviation and proposed class-dependent temperatures (CDT) to compensate for it.
result CDT helps in overcoming feature deviation, improving model performance on test data of minor classes.
A learning classifier must outperform a trivial solution, in case of imbalanced data, this condition usually does not hold true. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel data level resampling method - Clustering Based Oversampling for improved learning from class imbalanced datasets. The essential idea behind the p…
Paper introduces a new optimization method for imbalanced datasets.
problem Overfitting in imbalanced datasets, especially in financial fraud detection.
method Fractional Weyl Integral optimization algorithm.
result Significantly improved performance in financial fraud detection (40% improvement in PR-AUC).
AGGAN uses genetic algorithm with simulated annealing to generate minority class data.
problem Overcoming class imbalance in minority class data.
method AGGAN combines genetic algorithm and simulated annealing to train GANs on scarce minority class data.
result AGGAN effectively generates minority class data distributions from limited samples.
Data-driven fault diagnostics and prognostics suffers from class-imbalance problem in industrial systems and it raises challenges to common machine learning algorithms as it becomes difficult to learn the features of the minority class samples. Synthetic oversampling methods are commonly used to tackle these problems b…
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of death in the world. Prevention, knowledge of previous cases in the family, and early detection is the best strategy to reduce this fact. Different machine learning approaches to automatic diagnostic are being proposed to this task. As in most health problems,…
M2m method improves deep learning performance on class-imbalanced datasets.
problem Class imbalance in labeled training datasets causes deep neural networks to generalize poorly to minority classes.
method Augment less-frequent classes by translating samples from more-frequent classes.
result Significantly improves generalization on minority classes compared to existing methods.
Image classification datasets are often imbalanced, characteristic that negatively affects the accuracy of deep-learning classifiers. In this work we propose balancing GAN (BAGAN) as an augmentation tool to restore balance in imbalanced datasets. This is challenging because the few minority-class images may not be enou…
Capsule networks improve anomaly detection in high-dimensional datasets.
problem Anomaly detection in high-dimensional, class-imbalanced datasets.
method Used a capsule network architecture with autoencoder pre-training and dynamic routing.
result Capsule network outperformed other models in anomaly detection.
A new algorithm enhances minority class representation in imbalanced datasets.
problem Improving classification performance on imbalanced datasets.
method PO-QG algorithm using Proxima-Orion neighbors and q-Gaussian weighting.
result The PO-QG algorithm improves overall classification performance.
MixBoost generates synthetic instances to balance imbalanced datasets.
problem Training models on imbalanced datasets.
method Iterative data augmentation method that selects and combines instances from majority and minority classes.
result MixBoost outperforms existing approaches on 20 benchmark datasets.
DAMVI algorithm improves imbalanced binary classification by adjusting weights of examples and classifiers.
problem Imbalanced binary classification tasks where minority class is underrepresented.
method DAMVI algorithm increases positive example weights and optimizes classifier weights using PAC-Bayesian C-Bound.
result DAMVI outperforms state-of-the-art models on various imbalanced datasets.
CBDA improves active learning for semantic segmentation, especially with imbalanced classes.
problem Class imbalance degrades performance in domain adaptive active learning.
method Class Balanced Dynamic Acquisition (CBDA) selects more balanced labels for active learning.
result CBDA increases minority class performance and outperforms baselines by 0.6-2.4 mIoU.
A new CA-GAN architecture improves minority class data generation in health datasets.
problem Algorithmic bias due to health data poverty and underrepresentation of minority groups.
method Proposes CA-GAN architecture to address shortcomings of resampling and GAN-based approaches.
result CA-GAN outperforms SMOTE and WGAN-GP* in generating authentic minority class data and maintaining original distribution.
Classifiers operating in a dynamic, real world environment, are vulnerable to adversarial activity, which causes the data distribution to change over time. These changes are traditionally referred to as concept drift, and several approaches have been developed in literature to deal with the problem of drift handling an…
Class imbalance classification is a challenging research problem in data mining and machine learning, as most of the real-life datasets are often imbalanced in nature. Existing learning algorithms maximise the classification accuracy by correctly classifying the majority class, but misclassify the minority class. Howev…
DSAEE FS selects features for imbalanced data.
problem Feature selection for imbalanced data.
method DSAEE ensemble for feature ranking based on reconstruction error.
result DSAEE FS outperforms other methods in selecting relevant features.
Classifiers trained on data sets possessing an imbalanced class distribution are known to exhibit poor generalisation performance. This is known as the imbalanced learning problem. The problem becomes particularly acute when we consider incremental classifiers operating on imbalanced data streams, especially when the l…
Conformal prediction fails to cover minority classes in imbalanced datasets, but a class-conditional fix improves coverage.
problem Conformal prediction fails to cover minority classes in imbalanced datasets, leading to poor performance on rare labels.
method Class-conditional conformal prediction to improve coverage of minority classes.
result Class-conditional conformal prediction restores minority coverage to target with a modest increase in prediction-set size.
The paper explores how deep generative models can improve performance on imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets lead to poor classifier performance and misleading evaluation metrics.
method The paper studies deep generative models for oversampling minority classes in imbalanced tabular data.
result Deep generative models can improve performance on imbalanced classification tasks, but require different under- and oversampling ratios.
CopulaSMOTE addresses class imbalance in diabetes prediction models.
problem Class imbalance in diabetes prediction models, especially with fewer confirmed cases.
method Copula-based oversampling approach that models joint dependence structure.
result CopulaSMOTE improves minority-class recovery in larger diabetes datasets.
The paper develops a statistical theory explaining overfitting in imbalanced classification.
problem Overfitting in high-dimensional imbalanced classification.
method Developed a statistical theory for support vector machines and logistic regression.
result Overfitting is more severe for the minority class due to truncation or skewing effects in high-dimensional data.
Machine Learning has been steadily gaining traction for its use in Anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (A-NIDS). Research into this domain is frequently performed using the KDD~CUP~99 dataset as a benchmark. Several studies question its usability while constructing a contemporary NIDS, due to the skewed r…
A novel resampling technique addresses class imbalance in imbalanced datasets.
problem Class imbalance in real-world datasets, especially in rare event detection.
method Developed two oversampling algorithms: G1Nos 1-Nearest Neighbour.
result Our oversampling algorithms outperform state-of-the-art methods in all metrics.
We explore several oversampling techniques for an imbalanced multi-label classification problem, a setting often encountered when developing models for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) systems. While most CADx systems aim to optimize classifiers for overall accuracy without considering the relative distribution of each …
Matrix sketching balances class sizes for better supervised classification performance.
problem Class imbalance in supervised classification leads to poor performance.
method Matrix sketching using random projections to rebalance class sizes.
result Rebalanced classes improve classification performance, especially for minority classes.
Generative models can be unfair and unstable; new methods improve fairness and stability.
problem Generative models unfairly penalize minority data and suffer from MADness.
method Intentionally designed hypernetworks and regularization terms.
result Generative models are more fair, stable, and unbiased with new methods.
Online TERM improves robustness and fairness in streaming data.
problem Streaming data's lack of worst-case fairness and robustness in ERM.
method Proposes an online TERM formulation to balance average-case accuracy with worst-case fairness and robustness.
result Negative tilting effectively suppresses outlier influence, positive tilting improves recall with minimal precision loss.
New metrics improve performance in imbalanced classification problems.
problem Established metrics favor classifiers ignoring minority classes.
method Introduce robust modifications of F-score and MCC.
result TPR is bounded away from 0 in imbalanced settings.