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Synthetic Augmentation in Imbalanced Learning: When It Helps, When It Hurts, and How Much to Addstat.ML
Synthetic augmentation helps but not always in imbalanced learning.
problem Imbalanced learning causes poor performance on rare classes.
method Developed a statistical framework for synthetic augmentation in imbalanced learning.
result Synthetic augmentation is not always beneficial and depends on the imbalance regime.
A new LLM-based method enhances diversity in oversampling for imbalanced classification.
problem Limited diversity in synthetic minority samples generated by current LLM-based approaches reduces robustness and generalizability.
method Condition synthetic sample generation on minority labels and features, use permutation strategy for fine-tuning, fine-tune on minority and interpolated samples.
result Significantly outperforms eight SOTA baselines in diverse synthetic sample generation and downstream classification tasks.
Framework learns to transform majority to minority samples for balanced classification.
problem Imbalanced classification leading to biased predictions.
method Minimizes MMD and uses triplet loss for global alignment and boundary awareness.
result Consistent improvements over classical and generative baselines in AUROC, G-mean, F1-score, and MCC.
Generative Adversarial Network model for class-imbalanced tabular data.
problem Class imbalance in binary classification problems.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with synthetic minority class samples.
result Improves average precision compared to re-weighting and oversampling techniques.
Deep SMOTE improves SMOTE's stability and accuracy in imbalanced classification.
problem Stability and accuracy issues in SMOTE for imbalanced classification.
method Adapting SMOTE idea in a deep neural network regression model.
result Deep SMOTE outperforms traditional SMOTE in precision, F1 score, and AUC.
An Adaptive Oversampling Learning Method for Class-Imbalanced Fault Diagnostics and Prognosticscs.LG
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…
Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversamplingstat.ML
The paper analyzes SMOTE for imbalanced classification, providing theoretical bounds and guidelines.
problem The challenge of imbalanced classification problems, especially with minority classes.
method Theoretical analysis of SMOTE and related oversampling techniques for minority classes.
result Derives concentration and excess risk bounds for SMOTE and kernel-based classifiers.
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.
Machine learning classifiers often stumble over imbalanced datasets where classes are not equally represented. This inherent bias towards the majority class may result in low accuracy in labeling minority class. Imbalanced learning is prevalent in many real-world applications, such as medical research, network intrusio…
MCRAGE generates synthetic data to balance healthcare datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets in healthcare lead to biased model performance for minority groups.
method Generative modeling to create synthetic data for underrepresented classes.
result MCRAGE improves model performance on minority groups.
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.
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 …
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…
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…
Spam filtering on forums: A synthetic oversampling based approach for imbalanced data classificationcs.IR
Forums play an important role in providing a platform for community interaction. The introduction of irrelevant content or spam by individuals for commercial and social gains tends to degrade the professional experience presented to the forum users. Automated moderation of the relevancy of posted content is desired. Ma…
The paper analyzes how minority group imbalance affects neural network performance.
problem The impact of minority group imbalance on neural network performance.
method Formulated group imbalance problem with Gaussian Mixture Model, quantified sample complexity, convergence rate, and testing performance.
result Increasing the minority group fraction does not necessarily improve the generalization performance of the minority group.
Synthetic data augmentation can improve imbalanced classification metrics.
problem Improving imbalanced classification metrics
method Developing a framework for analyzing the effects of synthetic data augmentation on score-based classification
result Augmentation can improve AUROC, AUPRC, balanced accuracy, and F1 score
A new oversampling framework generates minority samples by perturbing majority classes.
problem Oversampling in imbalanced classification often neglects majority classes, leading to samples spread across the minority space.
method Introduces a counterfactual objective to generate new minority samples by perturbing majority samples.
result Generated minority samples are near the decision boundary and significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods.
Improves generation of minority samples using diffusion models.
problem Generating minority samples on low-density regions of a data manifold.
method Introduces minority guidance to focus diffusion models on minority samples.
result Significantly improves generation of high-quality minority samples.
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.
Paper tackles imbalanced time series classification with a novel oversampling method.
problem Imbalanced time series classification challenges due to high dimensionality and correlation.
method Density-ratio based clustering followed by shrinkage technique for covariance estimation, then generating synthetic samples.
result OHIT outperforms state-of-the-art methods in F1, G-mean, and AUC metrics.
A Data-Driven Probabilistic Framework for Cascading Urban Risk Analysis Using Bayesian Networkscs.LG
Bayesian network framework assesses urban risks across multiple domains.
problem Complex interdependencies in urban systems.
method Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) with DAGs, Hill-Climbing search, BIC, K2 scoring, synthetic data, SMOTE.
result Identifies key risk factors and quantifies likelihood of cascading failures.
Boost-and-Skip generates minority samples without guidance, faster and more effectively.
problem Generating minority samples in low-density regions of a data manifold.
method Boost-and-Skip approach with variance-boosted initialization and timestep skipping.
result Boost-and-Skip effectively promotes the emergence of underrepresented minority features.
This paper tackles imbalanced data in binary classification problems.
problem Imbalanced data leads to skewed results in classification problems.
method Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) and Adaptive Synthetic (ADASYN) Sampling Approach.
result Synthetic data points enhance understanding of oversampling techniques.
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.
Imbalanced data classification problem has always been a popular topic in the field of machine learning research. In order to balance the samples between majority and minority class. Oversampling algorithm is used to synthesize new minority class samples, but it could bring in noise. Pointing to the noise problems, thi…
The paper corrects bias in synthetic data for imbalanced learning.
problem Challenges in balancing false positive and negative rates in imbalanced data.
method Proposes a bias correction procedure to generate synthetic data for minority groups.
result Enhances prediction accuracy while avoiding overfitting.
Do we need rebalancing strategies? A theoretical and empirical study around SMOTE and its variantsstat.ML
Theoretical and empirical study on SMOTE rebalancing strategy for imbalanced data.
problem Handling imbalanced tabular data sets using SMOTE and its variants.
method Derive non-asymptotic upper bounds on SMOTE density, adapt SMOTE based on theoretical findings.
result SMOTE tends to copy original minority samples asymptotically and vanishes near minority class boundaries.
SMOTE-DP enhances synthetic data privacy without sacrificing utility.
problem Balancing privacy and utility in synthetic data generation.
method Integrating SMOTE with differential privacy mechanisms.
result SMOTE-DP produces synthetic data that is both private and useful.
GAN improves financial risk prediction by generating synthetic minority events.
problem Data imbalance in financial market supervision.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to generate synthetic data.
result GAN-generated synthetic data significantly improves prediction accuracy.
A Mechanism for Pockets of Predictability in Complex Adaptive Systemscond-mat.stat-mech
We document a mechanism operating in complex adaptive systems leading to dynamical pockets of predictability (``prediction days''), in which agents collectively take predetermined courses of action, transiently decoupled from past history. We demonstrate and test it out-of-sample on synthetic minority and majority game…
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.
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.
Proposes GMOTE for better handling imbalanced data.
problem Classification of imbalanced data.
method Generates minority class instances using Gaussian Mixture Model, considering outliers through Mahalanobis distance.
result Shows better accuracy and F1-Score when combined with CART or SVM.
Study improves bankruptcy prediction models for imbalanced data and economic stages.
problem Class imbalance and economic fluctuations in credit risk analytics.
method Applied 8 BPMs on a new public dataset with resampling and AI techniques.
result Models perform differently during economic changes.
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.
Class-imbalance is an inherent characteristic of multi-label data which affects the prediction accuracy of most multi-label learning methods. One efficient strategy to deal with this problem is to employ resampling techniques before training the classifier. Existing multilabel sampling methods alleviate the (global) im…
Proposes a technique to balance imbalanced data classes.
problem Imbalanced data in classification problems.
method Synthesizes data samples near actual data for minority classes.
result Significantly more balanced and fair classification results achieved.
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.
INGB: Informed Nonlinear Granular Ball Oversampling Framework for Noisy Imbalanced Classificationstat.ML
INGB improves oversampling for noisy imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced, noisy, and complex datasets in classification problems.
method INGB uses granular balls to simulate spatial distribution and informed entropy for optimization, followed by nonlinear oversampling.
result INGB outperforms traditional linear sampling frameworks and algorithms on complex datasets.
Imbalanced datasets are ubiquitous. Classification performance on imbalanced datasets is generally poor for the minority class as the classifier cannot learn decision boundaries well. However, in sensitive applications like fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and spam identification, it is extremely important to classi…
k-Nearest Neighbors is one of the most fundamental but effective classification models. In this paper, we propose two families of models built on a sequence to sequence model and a memory network model to mimic the k-Nearest Neighbors model, which generate a sequence of labels, a sequence of out-of-sample feature vecto…
GANs can bias synthetic data, affecting minority and female faces.
problem GANs can amplify biases in synthetic data augmentation.
method Examine GANs on face-shots with gender and skin tone biases.
result GANs generate biased synthetic data, skewing minority modes and features.
GAT-RWOS uses graph attention to improve imbalanced data classification.
problem Imbalanced data leads to biased models favoring majority classes.
method Combines GATs and random walks to generate synthetic minority samples.
result Improves classification performance on imbalanced datasets.
The study predicts solar flare productivity using magnetic data from SDO/HMI.
problem Forecasting solar flares, especially M- and X-class, to mitigate space weather effects.
method Statistical and machine learning methods applied to 563 ARs' magnetic data.
result Improved accuracy in predicting AR's Flare Index, especially for large values.
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 Synthetic Minority Oversampling TEchnique (SMOTE) is widely-used for the analysis of imbalanced datasets. It is known that SMOTE frequently over-generalizes the minority class, leading to misclassifications for the majority class, and effecting the overall balance of the model. In this article, we present an approa…