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Most real-world classification problems deal with imbalanced datasets, posing a challenge for Artificial Intelligence (AI), i.e., machine learning algorithms, because the minority class, which is of extreme interest, often proves difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Gissel Velarde , Michael Weichert , Anuj Deshmunkh , Sanjay Deshmane , Anindya Sudhir , Khushboo Sharma , Vaibhav Joshi

Classification models are expected to perform equally well for different classes, yet in practice, there are often large gaps in their performance. This issue of class bias is widely studied in cases of datasets with sample imbalance, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chiraag Kaushik , Ran Liu , Chi-Heng Lin , Amrit Khera , Matthew Y Jin , Wenrui Ma , Vidya Muthukumar , Eva L Dyer

Modern machine learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learning new classes incrementally. The performance dramatically degrades due to the missing data of old classes. Incremental learning methods have been proposed to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yue Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Yuancheng Ye , Zicheng Liu , Yandong Guo , Yun Fu

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

We propose a new loss formulation to further advance the multiclass segmentation of cluttered cells under weakly supervised conditions. We improve the separation of touching and immediate cells, obtaining sharp segmentation boundaries with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Paul T. Tarr , Tsang Ing Ren , Elliot M. Meyerowitz , Alexandre Cunha

Class imbalance is a substantial challenge in classifying many real-world cases. Synthetic over-sampling methods have been effective to improve the performance of classifiers for imbalance problems. However, most synthetic over-sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Hadi A. Khorshidi , Uwe Aickelin

Medical diagnosis might fail due to bias. In this work, we identified class-feature bias, which refers to models' potential reliance on features that are strongly correlated with only a subset of classes, leading to biased performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lishi Zuo , Man-Wai Mak , Lu Yi , Youzhi Tu

Detecting edges in images suffers from the problems of (P1) heavy imbalance between positive and negative classes as well as (P2) label uncertainty owing to disagreement between different annotators. Existing solutions address P1 using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Bedrettin Cetinkaya , Sinan Kalkan , Emre Akbas

The unique characteristics of text data make classification tasks a complex problem. Advances in unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and autoencoder architectures addressed several challenges. However, they still struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Grigorii Khvatskii , Nuno Moniz , Khoa Doan , Nitesh V Chawla

Accurate vehicle type recognition underpins intelligent transportation and logistics, but severe class imbalance in public datasets suppresses performance on rare categories. We curate a 16-class corpus (~47k images) by merging Kaggle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany

Class imbalance poses a major challenge in different classification tasks, which is a frequently occurring scenario in many real-world applications. Data resampling is considered to be the standard approach to address this issue. The goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Asif Newaz , Md. Salman Mohosheu , MD. Abdullah al Noman , Taskeed Jabid

The classification of individual traffic participants is a complex task, especially for challenging scenarios with multiple road users or under bad weather conditions. Radar sensors provide an - with respect to well established camera…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Nicolas Scheiner , Nils Appenrodt , Jürgen Dickmann , Bernhard Sick

Traditional resampling methods for handling class imbalance typically uses fixed distributions, undersampling the majority or oversampling the minority. These static strategies ignore changes in class-wise learning difficulty, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Arjun Basandrai , Shourya Jain , K. Ilanthenral

Recent studies showed that datasets used in fairness-aware machine learning for multiple protected attributes (referred to as multi-discrimination hereafter) are often imbalanced. The class-imbalance problem is more severe for the often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Arjun Roy , Vasileios Iosifidis , Eirini Ntoutsi

For classification, the problem of class imbalance is well known and has been extensively studied. In this paper, we argue that imbalance in regression is an equally important problem which has so far been overlooked: Due to under- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Daniel Kowatsch , Nicolas M. Müller , Kilian Tscharke , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Bötinger

The small sample imbalance (S&I) problem is a major challenge in machine learning and data analysis. It is characterized by a small number of samples and an imbalanced class distribution, which leads to poor model performance. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuxian Zhao , Jie Gui , Minjing Dong , Baosheng Yu , Zhipeng Gui , Lu Dong , Yuan Yan Tang , James Tin-Yau Kwok

Learning unbiased models on imbalanced datasets is a significant challenge. Rare classes tend to get a concentrated representation in the classification space which hampers the generalization of learned boundaries to new test examples. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Waqas Zamir , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to multiclass classification problem. We decompose the problem into a series of regression tasks, that are solved with CART trees. The proposed method works significantly faster than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Igor E. Kuralenok , Yurii Rebryk , Ruslan Solovev , Anton Ermilov

Random Forest is a machine learning method that offers many advantages, including the ability to easily measure variable importance. Class balancing technique is a well-known solution to deal with class imbalance problem. However, it has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Yunbi Nam , Sunwoo Han

Deep learning enables impressive performance in image recognition using large-scale artificially-balanced datasets. However, real-world datasets exhibit highly class-imbalanced distributions, yielding two main challenges: relative imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Saurabh Sharma , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele