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48 results for classifier imbalance

We use a geometric digraph family called class cover catch digraphs (CCCDs) to tackle the class imbalance problem in statistical classification. CCCDs provide graph theoretic solutions to the class cover problem and have been employed in classification. We assess the classification performance of CCCD classifiers by ex…

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The study analyzes performance indices for class-imbalanced data and identifies conditions they must meet.

problem Distortions in performance indices under class imbalance.
method Identified two conditions for performance indices and analyzed four binary and five multi-class indices.
result Recommended appropriate indices for evaluating classifiers in class-imbalanced scenarios.

Study characterizes and mitigates imbalances in neurosymbolic learning.

problem Characterizing and mitigating class-specific risks in neural classifiers.
method Theoretical analysis and practical techniques including estimating marginal gold labels and mitigating imbalances at training and testing time.
result Learning imbalances can be greatly impacted by the symbolic component σ, unlike in supervised and weakly supervised learning.

Study of linear classifiers in infinite imbalance scenarios.

problem Behavior of linear discriminant functions in extreme imbalance conditions.
method Analysis of linear classifiers under infinite imbalance, focusing on weight function properties and limit behavior.
result Limiting coefficient vectors reflect robustness or conservatism, optimizing against worst-case alternatives.

Many real-world classification problems are significantly class-imbalanced to detriment of the class of interest. The standard set of proper evaluation metrics is well-known but the usual assumption is that the test dataset imbalance equals the real-world imbalance. In practice, this assumption is often broken for vari…

2020-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves Active Learning by considering class imbalance and difficulty.

problem Active Learning's focus on individual samples ignores class distribution and difficulty.
method Proposes a method based on Bayes' rule to incorporate class imbalance, using a Variational Auto Encoder (VAE).
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on datasets with heavy data imbalance.

Unified framework suppresses model bias in semi-supervised learning with decoupled sampling control.

problem Class imbalance in semi-supervised learning, especially with distributional mismatches.
method Unified framework SC-SSL with decoupled sampling control, explicit expansion capability, and adaptive sampling probabilities.
result Consistent and state-of-the-art performance across various benchmark datasets and distribution settings.

Study shows neural collapse is invariant to class imbalances under certain conditions.

problem Neural collapse properties are only valid for balanced data.
method Adopted UFM and introduced SELI for invariant characterization.
result Embeddings and classifiers always interpolate a simplex-encoded label matrix regardless of class imbalances.

Theoretical and empirical taxonomy of imbalance in binary classification.

problem Class imbalance degrades binary classification performance.
method Proposed a principled framework based on three scales: imbalance coefficient, sample-dimension ratio, and intrinsic separability. Derived closed-form Bayes errors and analyzed degradation across models.
result The triplet (η, κ, Δ) provides a model-agnostic explanation of imbalance-induced deterioration.

Class imbalance is an intrinsic characteristic of multi-label data. Most of the labels in multi-label data sets are associated with a small number of training examples, much smaller compared to the size of the data set. Class imbalance poses a key challenge that plagues most multi-label learning methods. Ensemble of Cl…

2018-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimation of importance sampling weights for off-policy evaluation of contextual bandits often results in imbalance - a mismatch between the desired and the actual distribution of state-action pairs after weighting. In this work we present balanced off-policy evaluation (B-OPE), a generic method for estimating weights…

2019-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes methods to improve multi-label learning by addressing local label imbalance.

problem Local label imbalance within minority class examples degrades multi-label learning performance.
method Introduces a measure to assess local label imbalance and two sampling approaches (MLSOL, MLUL) to address it.
result Experimental results show MLSOL and MLUL improve performance on multi-label datasets.

Discriminative neural networks address class imbalance in coronary heart disease risk analysis.

problem Class imbalance in medical test data, especially in binary classification problems.
method Use of discriminative neural networks and contrastive loss with a Siamese network structure.
result The method effectively handles class imbalance, improving predictive models for coronary heart disease risk.

Improves classifier evaluation by aligning with Total Classification Cost.

problem Lack of consensus on evaluation metrics and class imbalance issues.
method Introduces Weighted Accuracy (WA) and a reweighting framework for cost-sensitive scenarios.
result WA aligns with Total Classification Cost (TCC) minimization under realistic conditions.

The paper classifies trades into types based on proximity and measures their impact on stock prices.

problem Understanding the impact of high-frequency trades on stock prices and their predictability.
method Classifies trades into five types based on proximity, measures conditional order imbalance (COI), and develops trading strategies.
result Strong positive correlations between contemporaneous returns and COIs, and positive associations with future returns for isolated trades.

A new activation function improves credit scoring accuracy for imbalanced datasets.

problem Imbalanced datasets in credit scoring lead to underestimation of misclassification costs.
method Introduces ASIG, an asymmetric adjusted Sigmoid function.
result ASIG-embedded classifier outperforms traditional classifiers across various imbalance 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.

Many real-world applications reveal difficulties in learning classifiers from imbalanced data. The rising big data era has been witnessing more classification tasks with large-scale but extremely imbalance and low-quality datasets. Most of existing learning methods suffer from poor performance or low computation effici…

2019-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves object detection models for long-tailed datasets.

problem Classifier imbalance in long-tail object detection datasets.
method Balanced Group Softmax (BAGS) module for balanced training of classifiers.
result Significantly improves performance of object detection models.

Optimized deferral improves accuracy in imbalanced settings.

problem Imbalance in expert predictions leads to suboptimal performance in two-stage learning to defer.
method Developed novel cost-sensitive learning algorithms and margin-based loss functions tailored for expert imbalance.
result MILD algorithm shows clear improvements over baselines in image classification and LLM routing tasks.

The paper examines how adversarial robustness affects accuracy disparity across different classes.

problem Understanding the impact of adversarial robustness on accuracy disparity across different classes.
method Linear classifiers under a Gaussian mixture model, decomposing the impact into inherent and imbalance effects.
result Adversarial robustness consistently degrades standard accuracy in balanced classes, but the class imbalance ratio plays a different role in accuracy disparity.

This paper improves binary classification methods beyond accuracy, especially in imbalanced datasets.

problem Binary classification performance metrics often fail to reflect real-world consequences, especially in imbalanced datasets.
method Derives a generalized Bayes-optimal classifier from accuracy to any performance metric, removing assumptions and providing finite-sample statistical guarantees.
result Optimal classification performance depends on class imbalance properties, providing new insights and guarantees.

Self-supervised learning performs better than supervised learning on imbalanced datasets.

problem The performance gap between balanced and imbalanced pre-training with self-supervised learning is smaller than with supervised learning.
method Systematic investigation of self-supervised learning under dataset imbalance, including experiments and theoretical analyses.
result Self-supervised representations are more robust to class imbalance than supervised representations.

ABROCA assesses algorithmic bias, revealing skewed distributions that inflate results.

problem Detecting nuanced performance differences in classifier fairness.
method Study of ABROCA metric's statistical properties under various conditions.
result ABROCA distributions are skewed, inflating results by chance in imbalanced classes.

A new method for measuring prediction uncertainty in classifiers.

problem Measuring uncertainty of predictions from machine learning methods.
method Density Based Calibration (DBCal) technique.
result Expected calibration error of less than 0.2% on binary classifiers and less than 3% on semantic segmentation networks.

Improved stock price prediction model using generalized order flow imbalance.

problem Improving stock price prediction models using new order flow imbalance indicators.
method Proposed a generalized order flow imbalance construction method and applied it to CSI 500 stocks.
result Generalized Stationarized Order Flow Imbalance (log-GOFI) shows significant improvement in explaining stock price changes.

New algorithms optimize metrics for binary classification with class imbalance.

problem Optimizing metrics like Fβ, AM, Jaccard for imbalanced classes.
method Reformulates metric optimization as cost-sensitive learning, using surrogate loss functions.
result METRO algorithms provide strong theoretical guarantees and outperform baselines.

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.