Improved BN for better performance in imbalanced data.
problem Improving classification accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
method Combining weighted loss function with modified batch normalization.
result Modified batch normalization improves classification accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
Paper proposes an ensemble classifier for balanced MBA selection data.
problem Learning from imbalanced data in MBA selection.
method Imbalanced ensemble classifier for feature selection and classification.
result Higher accuracy in predicting MBA placements from imbalanced data.
Paper reviews and compares methods for handling imbalanced data.
problem Handling imbalanced data sets in financial industry.
method Reviewed and compared under-sampling/over-sampling methodologies.
result Performance analysis of class-imbalance methods, modeling algorithms, and grid search criteria.
Mix-IRLS solves imbalanced mixed linear regression problems efficiently.
problem Imbalanced mixed linear regression problems.
method Sequential robust regression approach.
result Mix-IRLS outperforms other methods on imbalanced mixtures and real-world datasets.
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…
A new algorithm improves credit scoring accuracy for imbalanced data.
problem Poor classification of minority class in credit scoring data sets.
method Weighted-Hybrid-Sampling-Boost (WHSBoost) algorithm with balanced data sampling.
result WHSBoost outperforms other methods in credit scoring accuracy.
Proposes PUUPL for PUL in imbalanced datasets, boosting minority class signals.
problem Imbalanced datasets and model calibration in PUL.
method Uncertainty-aware pseudo-labeling procedure (PUUPL).
result Substantial performance gains in highly imbalanced settings.
Improves comparison of F-measures for imbalanced datasets.
problem Comparing F-measures for classification algorithms on imbalanced data.
method Two improvements to existing F-measure comparison methods.
result Enhanced accuracy in comparing F-measures for classification.
New method for clustering imbalanced clusters.
problem Spectral clustering's sensitivity to imbalanced clusters.
method Proposes a graph partitioning problem with minimum size constraints to handle imbalanced cluster sizes.
result Demonstrates superiority of the proposed method through experiments.
Method detects anomalies in small, imbalanced data sets.
problem Anomaly detection in small, imbalanced data sets.
method A novel (1+ε)-class classification method. result Better performance on anomaly detection problems.
New framework for learning from imbalanced data with theoretical guarantees.
problem Class imbalance in machine learning, especially in multi-class problems.
method Theoretical framework and new margin loss function for imbalanced classification.
result Proves strong H-consistency of the proposed margin loss function. Instance selection improves geometric mean accuracy in imbalanced data classification.
problem Improving classification success on imbalanced data using geometric mean.
method Instance selection to maximize geometric mean.
result GM is non-monotonic with instance selection, and balancing frequencies is inferior.
Spectral clustering is sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data particularly when proximal and imbalanced clusters are present. We show that Ratio-Cut (RCut) or normalized cut (NCut) objectives are not tailored to imbalanced data since they tend to emphasize cut sizes over cut values. We propose a graph partit…
Paper tackles class-imbalanced semi-supervised learning, improving performance.
problem Class imbalance in semi-supervised learning datasets.
method Proposes Suppressed Consistency Loss (SCL) to handle class imbalance.
result Method shows better performance in class-imbalanced semi-supervised learning environments.
Two novel methods improve network embedding for completely-imbalanced labels.
problem Improving network embedding for networks with completely-imbalanced labels.
method Two novel semi-supervised network embedding methods: RSDNE and RECT.
result Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed methods.
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.
Superensemble classifier improves predictions in imbalanced datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets lead to poor performance in minority class examples.
method Maps Hellinger distance decision trees into RBFN framework for universal consistency and parameter optimization.
result The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in various real-life data sets.
New bounds for balanced classification improve understanding of imbalanced datasets.
problem Negligible size of the minority class in imbalanced datasets.
method Developed non-asymptotic and consistent bounds for balanced empirical risk minimization and balanced nearest neighbors estimates.
result Improved understanding of class-weighting benefits in real-world imbalanced classification settings.
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.
Paper develops a new method for open-set and imbalanced classification with valid prediction sets.
problem Tackles open-set and imbalanced classification with new prediction methods.
method Develops a new family of conformal p-values and a selective sample splitting algorithm.
result Valid prediction sets with valid coverage in open-set scenarios and informative predictions under extreme 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.
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.
SkewPNN uses probabilistic neural networks with skew-normal kernels to improve classification of imbalanced data.
problem Imbalanced data distribution leading to biased predictions for minority classes.
method Probabilistic neural networks with skew-normal kernel function and Bat optimization algorithm for hyperparameter tuning.
result SkewPNN and BA-SkewPNN outperform other methods in both balanced and imbalanced datasets.
Study tackles imbalanced data in car insurance claims prediction.
problem Predicting rare events (claims) in car insurance with imbalanced data.
method Various machine learning techniques (logistic-regression, decision tree, random forest, xgBoost, feed-forward network) applied to imbalanced dataset.
result Comparison of machine learning algorithms' performance in claim occurrence prediction.
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 proposes a SeqGAN model to generate balanced log messages for anomaly detection.
problem Imbalanced log data makes anomaly detection difficult.
method SeqGAN for generating balanced log messages, Autoencoder for feature extraction, GRU for anomaly detection.
result Oversampling and balancing data improves anomaly detection accuracy.
Imbalanced data sets containing much more background than signal instances are very common in particle physics, and will also be characteristic for the upcoming analyses of LHC data. Following up the work presented at ACAT 2008, we use the multivariate technique presented there (a rule growing algorithm with the meta-m…
Equity-Directed Bootstrapping improves model performance across groups in imbalanced datasets.
problem Improving model performance across different groups in imbalanced datasets.
method Equity-Directed Bootstrapping to balance training data with respect to both labels and group identity.
result The equity-directed bootstrap brings test set sensitivities and specificities closer to satisfying the equal odds criterion.
PARIS reduces imbalanced regression datasets by pruning uninformative samples.
problem Imbalanced regression where models focus on high-frequency regions, ignoring rare but impactful events.
method PARIS uses the representer theorem to compute a closed-form representer deletion residual for iterative pruning of the training set.
result PARIS reduces training set by up to 75% while preserving or improving overall performance, outperforming other methods.
NPC tackles class imbalance in datasets by progressively considering more neighbors.
problem Class imbalance in datasets causes poor performance in classification tasks.
method Inspired by k-NN, NPC progressively considers more neighbors and uses local-global grading.
result NPC outperforms five representative algorithms on fifteen imbalanced datasets.
Classification is an important topic in statistics and machine learning with great potential in many real applications. In this paper, we investigate two popular large margin classification methods, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Distance Weighted Discrimination (DWD), under two contexts: the high-dimensional, low-sa…
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.
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.
An adjusted NN algorithm reduces false negatives in imbalanced data.
problem Learning from imbalanced data, focusing on reducing false negatives.
method Introduces a reweighted distance scheme to modify Voronoi regions and decision boundaries.
result The method yields the best performance, especially when combined with sampling methods.
Toy model study shows resampling/reweighting can improve feature learning in imbalanced classification.
problem Improving feature learning in imbalanced classification problems.
method High-dimensional toy model with replica method, class-wise resampling/reweighting, and simplified model.
result No resampling/reweighting can sometimes give best feature learning performance.
Model separates latent space to handle imbalanced data.
problem Challenges in unsupervised learning with imbalanced data.
method Develops a latent variable model with a shared and private latent space, using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models and efficient variational inference.
result Demonstrates improved performance on imbalanced medical image dataset.
Paper studies SERA's effectiveness in optimizing imbalanced regression models.
problem Imbalanced regression tasks where extreme values are crucial.
method Gradient boosting algorithms tested with 36 datasets.
result Models using SERA as objective function perform better at extreme value predictions.
PSC classifier improves HDLSS classification on class-imbalanced data.
problem Classification on high-dimension low-sample-size data with class imbalance.
method Population Structure-learned Classifier (PSC) maximizing inter-class and intra-class scatter matrices.
result PSC outperforms state-of-the-art methods on IHDLSS.
Adaptive regularization tackles heteroskedastic and imbalanced datasets in deep learning.
problem Heteroskedastic and imbalanced datasets challenge deep learning due to varying label uncertainty and long-tailed label distributions.
method Data-dependent adaptive regularization that applies stronger regularization to higher-uncertainty, lower-density regions.
result Significant improvement in noise-robust deep learning over other methods on benchmark tasks.
Paper improves fraud detection in imbalanced financial data.
problem Detecting fraud in imbalanced financial datasets.
method Uses time-varying Poisson processes for fraud prediction.
result Method outperforms baseline in imbalanced data.
A new framework SIMBA improves graph classification performance on size-imbalanced datasets.
problem Size imbalance in graph classification leads to poor model performance.
method Energy-guided structural smoothing between head and tail graphs, re-weighting based on energy propagation.
result SIMBA outperforms existing methods in size-imbalanced graph classification tasks.
VIR model improves regression accuracy and uncertainty estimation for imbalanced data.
problem Imbalanced regression datasets lead to poor model accuracy and uncertainty estimation.
method VIR model uses probabilistic smoothing and reweighting to estimate latent representations and uncertainty.
result VIR model outperforms state-of-the-art models in accuracy and uncertainty estimation.
Improves PU learning for imbalanced data with practical AUL estimation and new training method.
problem Training binary classifiers on datasets with only positive and unlabeled samples.
method Asymptotic unbiased AUL estimation and ProbTagging for imbalanced data.
result ProbTagging increases AUC by up to 10% on industrial and artificial data sets.
BERT improved for propaganda detection with imbalanced, dissimilar data.
problem BERT struggles with dissimilar imbalanced datasets in propaganda detection.
method Cost-sensitive BERT with dissimilarity measure for imbalanced, dissimilar datasets.
result Achieved second-highest score on sentence-level propaganda classification.
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.
Improved multiclass classification with class-weighted nearest neighbors.
problem Multiclass classification with large or imbalanced classes.
method Class-weighted k-nearest neighbors algorithm, derived bounds on accuracy and risk.
result Optimized classification metrics like F1 score or Matthew's Correlation Coefficient.
Study predicts high school dropout risk in Louisiana using imbalanced learning techniques.
problem Predicting high school dropout risk in Louisiana.
method Applied imbalanced learning techniques including resampling, case weighting, and cost-sensitive learning.
result Imbalanced learning techniques improve recall but decrease precision.
Study shows imbalanced labels can be beneficial but not always in class-imbalanced learning.
problem Challenges in class-imbalanced learning with heavy label bias.
method Systematic investigation of semi-supervised and self-supervised approaches to leverage imbalanced labels.
result Imbalanced labels are valuable in semi-supervised learning but not always in self-supervised learning.