Proposes a new sampling method for online learning with cumulative oversampling.
problem Budgeted Influence Maximization in online learning.
method Cumulative Oversampling (CO) method for online learning.
result CO-based algorithm achieves comparable regret to UCB-based algorithms and performs similarly to Thompson Sampling.
DO-IQS recovers optimal stopping region from expert trajectories, addressing specific challenges.
problem Recovering optimal stopping region from expert trajectories with unknown gain functions.
method Dynamics-Aware Offline Inverse Q-Learning incorporating temporal information and confidence-based oversampling.
result Demonstrated performance on real and artificial data, including optimal intervention for critical events.
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.
Learning from class-imbalanced data continues to be a common and challenging problem in supervised learning as standard classification algorithms are designed to handle balanced class distributions. While different strategies exist to tackle this problem, methods which generate artificial data to achieve a balanced cla…
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.
This paper tackles imbalanced classification with weakly supervised oversampling.
problem Imbalanced classification in high-dimensional datasets.
method Weakly supervised SMOTE, cost-sensitive NCA, bootstrap ensemble.
result Improved classification performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
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…
Proposes a new technique for handling imbalanced data.
problem Data imbalance in classification tasks.
method Combines oversampling and undersampling techniques.
result CSMOUTE shows promise for handling imbalanced 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…
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.
We improve kernel ridge regression for skewed responses using oversampling and adaptive partitioning.
problem Kernel ridge regression struggles with skewed response variables, leading to poor estimates.
method Combines adaptive partitioning with oversampling to address skewed responses in kernel ridge regression.
result The proposed method yields estimates with smaller risk compared to classical methods under mild conditions.
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.
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 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.
We aim at developing and improving the imbalanced business risk modeling via jointly using proper evaluation criteria, resampling, cross-validation, classifier regularization, and ensembling techniques. Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC of ROC) is used for model comparison based on 10-fold cro…
This paper uses LLMs to generate synthetic data to improve classification accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced classification and spurious correlation in data science.
method Develops novel theoretical foundations and uses transformer models to generate synthetic data.
result Transformer models can generate high-quality synthetic data to improve classification accuracy.
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…
This chapter tackles class imbalance in datasets to promote data democracy.
problem Class imbalance in datasets leading to biased decisions and policies.
method Statistical measures and data-level methods (oversampling, undersampling, etc.) applied to a real dataset.
result Popular data-level methods improve performance in handling class imbalance.
LDAO addresses imbalanced regression by learning local distribution structures.
problem Imbalanced regression with sparse target regions difficult for models.
method LDAO learns local distribution structures, models and samples from each, then merges.
result LDAO outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 45 imbalanced datasets.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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,…
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.
Data imbalance remains one of the most widespread problems affecting contemporary machine learning. The negative effect data imbalance can have on the traditional learning algorithms is most severe in combination with other dataset difficulty factors, such as small disjuncts, presence of outliers and insufficient numbe…
Recently, the introduction of the generative adversarial network (GAN) and its variants has enabled the generation of realistic synthetic samples, which has been used for enlarging training sets. Previous work primarily focused on data augmentation for semi-supervised and supervised tasks. In this paper, we instead foc…
QPCA improves PCA for cyclostationary data.
problem Improving PCA for cyclostationary data.
method Formulated as an optimization problem, QPCA decomposes into frequency-domain PCA problems.
result Optimized basis for cyclostationary data.
This paper surveys various data balancing methods for imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets bias predictions and degrade classifier performance.
method Extensive review of oversampling, undersampling, adaptive, generative, combination, and ensemble methods.
result No single method universally outperforms others; selection depends on dataset characteristics.
In this study, we systematically investigate the impact of class imbalance on classification performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and compare frequently used methods to address the issue. Class imbalance is a common problem that has been comprehensively studied in classical machine learning, yet very lim…
Paper tackles gene mutation prediction for HCC using multi-instance multi-label learning.
problem Gene mutation prediction in hepatocellular carcinoma for personalized treatments.
method Multi-instance multi-label learning with oversampling for data imbalance.
result Proposed approach shows superiority in gene mutation prediction.
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.
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.
The OSTSC package is a powerful oversampling approach for classifying univariant, but multinomial time series data in R. This article provides a brief overview of the oversampling methodology implemented by the package. A tutorial of the OSTSC package is provided. We begin by providing three test cases for the user to …
Class imbalanced datasets are common in real-world applications that range from credit card fraud detection to rare disease diagnostics. Several popular classification algorithms assume that classes are approximately balanced, and hence build the accompanying objective function to maximize an overall accuracy rate. In …
A novel two-stage resampling method improves CNN training on imbalanced colorectal cancer image data.
problem Data imbalance in medical image datasets, especially in histopathological images.
method Two-stage resampling: first oversampling in image space, then undersampling in feature space.
result The proposed method enhances CNN training on imbalanced colorectal cancer image datasets.
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…
Proposes a new undersampling method for imbalanced data classification.
problem Challenges of oversampling and undersampling in imbalanced data.
method Bilevel optimization framework for identifying optimal subset of majority training data.
result Improves F1 scores by up to 10% compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Dealing with imbalanced data is one of the main challenges in machine/deep learning algorithms for classification. This issue is more important with log message data as it is typically very imbalanced and negative logs are rare. In this paper, a model is proposed to generate text log messages using a SeqGAN network. Th…
A new algorithm reduces imbalanced data classification errors in multi-class settings.
problem Imbalanced data classification, especially with noise and overlapping classes.
method MC-CCR algorithm combining cleaning and resampling.
result High robustness to noise and superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The paper addresses classification imbalance by framing it as a transfer learning problem.
problem Classification imbalance where one class is much rarer than the other.
method The paper studies oversampling procedures to balance classes, focusing on SMOTE and bootstrapping.
result The excess risk decomposes into balanced training rate and transfer cost, with SMOTE having a higher transfer cost.
Proposes a new data augmentation method for imbalanced datasets in both classification and regression.
problem Imbalanced datasets in supervised learning, especially in regression.
method GOLIATH algorithm based on kernel density estimates for classification and regression.
result Significant improvement over existing state-of-the-art techniques in imbalanced regression.
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.
OS-ELM outperforms other classifiers in software defect prediction.
problem Predicting software defects from imbalanced datasets.
method OS-ELM, oversampling with noise filtering, comparison with other classifiers.
result OS-ELM outperforms other classifiers in recall and balanced accuracy.
Machine learning fails to improve recession prediction with yield spread.
problem Improving recession prediction using yield spread selection.
method Machine learning algorithm to identify best maturity pair and coefficients.
result Machine learning does not significantly improve prediction of recession.
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.
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.
The MobileNet model was used by applying transfer learning on the 7 skin diseases to create a skin disease classification system on Android application. The proponents gathered a total of 3,406 images and it is considered as imbalanced dataset because of the unequal number of images on its classes. Using different samp…