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Deep neural networks have been shown to easily overfit to biased training data with label noise or class imbalance. Meta-learning algorithms are commonly designed to alleviate this issue in the form of sample reweighting, by learning a meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hongxin Wei , Lei Feng , Rundong Wang , Bo An

Compared to humans, machine learning models generally require significantly more training examples and fail to extrapolate from experience to solve previously unseen challenges. To help close this performance gap, we augment single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tailin Wu , John Peurifoy , Isaac L. Chuang , Max Tegmark

Classification tasks require a balanced distribution of data to ensure the learner to be trained to generalize over all classes. In real-world datasets, however, the number of instances vary substantially among classes. This typically leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Joel Jang , Yoonjeon Kim , Kyoungho Choi , Sungho Suh

We investigate ensemble methods for prediction in an online setting. Unlike all the literature in ensembling, for the first time, we introduce a new approach using a meta learner that effectively combines the base model predictions via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Arda Fazla , Mustafa Enes Aydin , Orhun Tamyigit , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

Incremental Learning (IL) allows AI systems to adapt to streamed data. Most existing algorithms make two strong hypotheses which reduce the realism of the incremental scenario: (1) new data are assumed to be readily annotated when streamed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Umang Aggarwal , Léo Saci

Class imbalance is a widespread challenge in NLP tasks, significantly hindering robust performance across diverse domains and applications. We introduce Hardness-Aware Meta-Resample (HAMR), a unified framework that adaptively addresses both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hanshu Rao , Guangzeng Han , Xiaolei Huang

Class imbalance remains a major challenge in machine learning, especially in multi-class problems with long-tailed distributions. Existing methods, such as data resampling, cost-sensitive techniques, and logistic loss modifications, though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Corinna Cortes , Anqi Mao , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

Meta-learning leverages related source tasks to learn an initialization that can be quickly fine-tuned to a target task with limited labeled examples. However, many popular meta-learning algorithms, such as model-agnostic meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Diana Cai , Rishit Sheth , Lester Mackey , Nicolo Fusi

Learning from imbalanced data is one of the most significant challenges in real-world classification tasks. In such cases, neural networks performance is substantially impaired due to preference towards the majority class. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-13 Bronislav Yasinnik , Moshe Salhov , Ofir Lindenbaum , Amir Averbuch

Meta-learning aims to learn a model that can handle multiple tasks generated from an unknown but shared distribution. However, typical meta-learning algorithms have assumed the tasks to be similar such that a single meta-learner is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Kyeongryeol Go , Seyoung Yun

Meta learning is a promising solution to few-shot learning problems. However, existing meta learning methods are restricted to the scenarios where training and application tasks share the same out-put structure. To obtain a meta model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Yingtian Zou , Jiashi Feng

Ensembles are popular methods for solving practical supervised learning problems. They reduce the risk of having underperforming models in production-grade software. Although critical, methods for learning heterogeneous regression ensembles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Jihed Khiari , Luis Moreira-Matias , Ammar Shaker , Bernard Zenko , Saso Dzeroski

Training reliable respiratory sound classification models remains challenging due to the limited size and subject diversity of datasets. Ensemble methods can improve robustness, but when base models are trained on identical data, models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 June-Woo Kim , Miika Toikkanen , Heejoon Koo , Yoon Tae Kim , Doyoung Kwon , Kyunghoon Kim

Meta-Learning (ML) has proven to be a useful tool for training Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms by exposure to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset. However, the standard training procedure overlooks the dynamic nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mateusz Ochal , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey , Jose Vazquez , Sen Wang

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

Missing data represents a fundamental challenge in machine learning applications, often reducing model performance and reliability. This problem is particularly acute in fields like bioinformatics and clinical machine learning, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Fatemeh Azad , Zoran Bosnić , Matjaž Kukar

Ensemble technique and under-sampling technique are both effective tools used for imbalanced dataset classification problems. In this paper, a novel ensemble method combining the advantages of both ensemble learning for biasing classifiers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jinyan Li , Yaoyang Wu , Simon Fong , Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros , Xin-she Yang , Sabah Mohammed , Feng Wu

With the rapid increase of large-scale, real-world datasets, it becomes critical to address the problem of long-tailed data distribution (i.e., a few classes account for most of the data, while most classes are under-represented). Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Yin Cui , Menglin Jia , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yang Song , Serge Belongie

Sparse additive models have attracted much attention in high-dimensional data analysis due to their flexible representation and strong interpretability. However, most existing models are limited to single-level learning under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xuelin Zhang , Xinyue Liu , Lingjuan Wu , Hong Chen

Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in classification tasks, where traditional approaches often lead to biased models and unreliable predictions. Undersampling and oversampling techniques have been commonly employed to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Matt Clifford , Jonathan Erskine , Alexander Hepburn , Raúl Santos-Rodríguez , Dario Garcia-Garcia