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Class imbalance problem has been a challenging research problem in the fields of machine learning and data mining as most real life datasets are imbalanced. Several existing machine learning algorithms try to maximize the accuracy…

Contrastive learning has been gradually applied to learn high-quality unsupervised sentence embedding. Among the previous un-supervised methods, the latest state-of-the-art method, as far as we know, is unsupervised SimCSE (unsup-SimCSE).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Xing Wu , Chaochen Gao , Yipeng Su , Jizhong Han , Zhongyuan Wang , Songlin Hu

A fundamental task in machine learning involves visualizing high-dimensional data sets that arise in high-impact application domains. When considering the context of large imbalanced data, this problem becomes much more challenging. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Parisa Hajibabaee , Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili

Accurate illness diagnosis is vital for effective treatment and patient safety. Machine learning models are widely used for cancer diagnosis based on historical medical data. However, data imbalance remains a major challenge, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Soufiane Bacha , Huansheng Ning , Belarbi Mostefa , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Sahraoui Dhelim

Nowadays, many classification algorithms have been applied to various industries to help them work out their problems met in real-life scenarios. However, in many binary classification tasks, samples in the minority class only make up a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xiayu Liang , Ying Gao , Shanrong Xu

Real-world binary classification tasks are in many cases imbalanced, where the minority class is much smaller than the majority class. This skewness is challenging for machine learning algorithms as they tend to focus on the majority and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Sajad Darabi , Yotam Elor

Over 85 oversampling algorithms, mostly extensions of the SMOTE algorithm, have been built over the past two decades, to solve the problem of imbalanced datasets. However, it has been evident from previous studies that different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Saptarshi Bej , Kristian Schultz , Prashant Srivastava , Markus Wolfien , Olaf Wolkenhauer

Machine Translation is one of the major oldest and the most active research area in Natural Language Processing. Currently, Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) dominates the Machine Translation research. Statistical Machine Translation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-01 M. Anand Kumar , V. Dhanalakshmi , K. P. Soman , V. Sharmiladevi

Data imbalance remains one of the open challenges in the contemporary machine learning. It is especially prevalent in case of medical data, such as histopathological images. Traditional data-level approaches for dealing with data imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Michał Koziarski

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models can be viewed as an off-policy learning problem, where expert demonstrations come from a fixed behavior policy while training aims to optimize a target policy. Importance sampling is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shiwan Zhao , Xuyang Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Aobo Kong , Qicheng Li , Yong Qin

Classification data sets with skewed class proportions are called imbalanced. Class imbalance is a problem since most machine learning classification algorithms are built with an assumption of equal representation of all classes in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Azal Ahmad Khan

Differences in data size per class, also known as imbalanced data distribution, have become a common problem affecting data quality. Big Data scenarios pose a new challenge to traditional imbalanced classification algorithms, since they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Diego García-Gil , Salvador García , Ning Xiong , Francisco Herrera

This paper presents a comparative study of sampling methods within the FedHome framework, designed for personalized in-home health monitoring. FedHome leverages federated learning (FL) and generative convolutional autoencoders (GCAE) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Arash Ahmadi , Sarah S. Sharif , Yaser M. Banad

Recently, spam on online social networks has attracted attention in the research and business world. Twitter has become the preferred medium to spread spam content. Many research efforts attempted to encounter social networks spam. Twitter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nazeeh Ghatasheh , Ismail Altaharwa , Khaled Aldebei

Semi-supervised learning on class-imbalanced data, although a realistic problem, has been under studied. While existing semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods are known to perform poorly on minority classes, we find that they still generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Chen Wei , Kihyuk Sohn , Clayton Mellina , Alan Yuille , Fan Yang

Credit scoring is vital in the financial industry, assessing the risk of lending to credit card applicants. Traditional credit scoring methods face challenges with large datasets and data imbalance between creditworthy and non-creditworthy…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kejian Tong , Zonglin Han , Yanxin Shen , Yujian Long , Yijing Wei

We study classification under extreme class imbalance where recall and calibration are both critical, for example in medical diagnosis scenarios. We propose AF-SMOTE, a mathematically motivated augmentation framework that first synthesizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yanxuan Yu , Michael S. Hughes , Julien Lee , Jiacheng Zhou , Andrew F. Laine

Imbalanced-learn is an open-source python toolbox aiming at providing a wide range of methods to cope with the problem of imbalanced dataset frequently encountered in machine learning and pattern recognition. The implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Guillaume Lemaitre , Fernando Nogueira , Christos K. Aridas

The growing adoption of IoT and cloud computing, combined with rapid advancements in digital technologies, has considerably increased the cyber-attack surface, resulting in increasingly complex and persistent attacks. Traditional security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Muhammad Umair Basharat , Jawad Hussain , Waqas Khalid , Chiew Foong Kwong

Due to the increasing trend of performing spamming activities (e.g., Web spam, deceptive reviews, fake followers, etc.) on various online platforms to gain undeserved benefits, spam detection has emerged as a hot research issue. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuli Liu