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Imbalanced classification is a well-known challenge faced by many real-world applications. This issue occurs when the distribution of the target variable is skewed, leading to a prediction bias toward the majority class. With the arrival of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carla Vairetti , José Luis Assadi , Sebastián Maldonado

Ensemble methods in machine learning aim to improve prediction accuracy by combining multiple models. This is achieved by ensuring diversity among predictors to capture different data aspects. Homogeneous ensembles use identical models,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Emiliano Tolotti , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Traditionally, in supervised machine learning, (a significant) part of the available data (usually 50% to 80%) is used for training and the rest for validation. In many problems, however, the data is highly imbalanced in regard to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xiaowei Gu , Plamen P Angelov , Eduardo Almeida Soares

Numerous studies attempt to mitigate classification bias caused by class imbalance. However, existing studies have yet to explore the collaborative optimization of imbalanced learning and model training. This constraint hinders further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chuantao Li , Zhi Li , Jiahao Xu , Jie Li , Sheng Li

A high imbalance exists between technical debt and non-technical debt source code comments. Such imbalance affects Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) detection performance, and existing literature lacks empirical evidence on the choice of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Murali Sridharan , Mika Mantyla , Leevi Rantala , Maelick Claes

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant mental health challenge that affects individuals exposed to traumatic events. Early detection and effective intervention for PTSD are crucial, as it can lead to long-term psychological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ayesha Siddiqua , Atib Mohammad Oni , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Jungpil Shin

Severe class imbalance is one of the main conditions that make machine learning in cybersecurity difficult. A variety of dataset preprocessing methods have been introduced over the years. These methods modify the training dataset by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Radovan Haluška , Jan Brabec , Tomáš Komárek

Imbalanced dataset is occurred due to uneven distribution of data available in the real world such as disposition of complaints on government offices in Bandung. Consequently, multi-label text categorization algorithms may not produce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Genta Indra Winata , Masayu Leylia Khodra

We propose an algorithm to enhance certified robustness of a deep model ensemble by optimally weighting each base model. Unlike previous works on using ensembles to empirically improve robustness, our algorithm is based on optimizing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Huan Zhang , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh

This study investigates rare event detection on tabular data within binary classification. Standard techniques to handle class imbalance include SMOTE, which generates synthetic samples from the minority class. However, SMOTE is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Abdoulaye Sakho , Emmanuel Malherbe , Carl-Erik Gauthier , Erwan Scornet

Binary classification with an imbalanced dataset is challenging. Models tend to consider all samples as belonging to the majority class. Although existing solutions such as sampling methods, cost-sensitive methods, and ensemble learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Hsin-Han Tsai , Ta-Wei Yang , Wai-Man Wong , Cheng-Fu Chou

Cybersecurity has become essential worldwide and at all levels, concerning individuals, institutions, and governments. A basic principle in cybersecurity is to be always alert. Therefore, automation is imperative in processes where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Mateo Lopez-Ledezma , Gissel Velarde

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

Aggregating multiple learners through an ensemble of models aim to make better predictions by capturing the underlying distribution of the data more accurately. Different ensembling methods, such as bagging, boosting, and stacking/blending,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Mohsen Shahhosseini , Guiping Hu , Hieu Pham

This paper evaluates XGboost's performance given different dataset sizes and class distributions, from perfectly balanced to highly imbalanced. XGBoost has been selected for evaluation, as it stands out in several benchmarks due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gissel Velarde , Anindya Sudhir , Sanjay Deshmane , Anuj Deshmunkh , Khushboo Sharma , Vaibhav Joshi

In this work, we employ the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) to generate instances of the minority class of an imbalanced Coronary Artery Disease dataset. We firstly analyze the public dataset Z -- Alizadeh Sani, a dataset…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos

Determining the number of clusters is a central challenge in unsupervised learning, where ground-truth labels are unavailable. The Silhouette coefficient is a widely used internal validation metric for this task, yet its standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aggelos Semoglou , Aristidis Likas , John Pavlopoulos

The imbalanced data classification remains a vital problem. The key is to find such methods that classify both the minority and majority class correctly. The paper presents the classifier ensemble for classifying binary, non-stationary and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Joanna Grzyb , Jakub Klikowski , Michał Woźniak

Class imbalance and distributional differences in large datasets present significant challenges for classification tasks machine learning, often leading to biased models and poor predictive performance for minority classes. This work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-20 Alex Mak , Shubham Sahoo , Shivani Pandey , Yidan Yue , Linglong Kong

In this study, we consider classification problems based on neural networks in data-imbalanced environment. Learning from an imbalanced data set is one of the most important and practical problems in the field of machine learning. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-02 Muneki Yasuda , Seishirou Ueno