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Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in machine learning (ML), often leading to biased models favouring the majority class. In this paper, we propose GAT-RWOS, a novel graph-based oversampling method that combines the strengths of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zahiriddin Rustamov , Abderrahmane Lakas , Nazar Zaki

Class-imbalance refers to classification problems in which many more instances are available for certain classes than for others. Such imbalanced datasets require special attention because traditional classifiers generally favor the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Rafael M. O. Cruz , Robert Sabourin , George D. C. Cavalcanti

In most real-world scenarios, labeled training datasets are highly class-imbalanced, where deep neural networks suffer from generalizing to a balanced testing criterion. In this paper, we explore a novel yet simple way to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jaehyung Kim , Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Class imbalance in real-world data poses a common bottleneck for machine learning tasks, since achieving good generalization on under-represented examples is often challenging. Mitigation strategies, such as under or oversampling the data…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-03 Emanuele Loffredo , Mauro Pastore , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

Class imbalance is a long-standing problem relevant to a number of real-world applications of deep learning. Oversampling techniques, which are effective for handling class imbalance in classical learning systems, can not be directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sankha Subhra Mullick , Shounak Datta , Swagatam Das

When presented with a binary classification problem where the data exhibits severe class imbalance, most standard predictive methods may fail to accurately model the minority class. We present a model based on Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jonathan Gradstein , Moshe Salhov , Yoav Tulpan , Ofir Lindenbaum , Amir Averbuch

Handling imbalance in class distribution when building a classifier over tabular data has been a problem of long-standing interest. One popular approach is augmenting the training dataset with synthetically generated data. While classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Annie D'souza , Swetha M , Sunita Sarawagi

Multimodal learning integrates diverse modalities but suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities suppress weaker ones due to inconsistent convergence rates. Existing methods predominantly rely on static modulation or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhaocheng Liu , Zhiwen Yu , Xiaoqing Liu

The purpose of this research report is to present the our learning curve and the exposure to the Machine Learning life cycle, with the use of a Kaggle binary classification data set and taking to explore various techniques from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohamed Hamama

Class imbalance is a common problem in supervised learning and impedes the predictive performance of classification models. Popular countermeasures include oversampling the minority class. Standard methods like SMOTE rely on finding nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Justin Engelmann , Stefan Lessmann

Class imbalance, overlap, and noise degrade data quality, reduce model reliability, and limit generalization. Although widely studied in binary classification, these issues remain underexplored in multi-class settings, where complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Soufiane Bacha , Laouni Djafri , Sahraoui Dhelim , Huansheng Ning

One possible approach to tackle the class imbalance in classification tasks is to resample a training dataset, i.e., to drop some of its elements or to synthesize new ones. There exist several widely-used resampling methods. Recent research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Smolyakov Dmitry , Alexander Korotin , Pavel Erofeev , Artem Papanov , Evgeny Burnaev

Class imbalance remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, with traditional solutions often creating as many problems as they solve. We demonstrate that group-aware threshold calibration--setting different decision thresholds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hunter Gittlin

Matrix sketching is a recently developed data compression technique. An input matrix A is efficiently approximated with a smaller matrix B, so that B preserves most of the properties of A up to some guaranteed approximation ratio. In so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Roberta Falcone , Angela Montanari , Laura Anderlucci

This paper proposes a new RWO-Sampling (Random Walk Over-Sampling) based on graphs for imbalanced datasets. In this method, two schemes based on under-sampling and over-sampling methods are introduced to keep the proximity information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Saeideh Roshanfekr , Shahriar Esmaeili , Hassan Ataeian , Ali Amiri

A natural way of handling imbalanced data is to attempt to equalise the class frequencies and train the classifier of choice on balanced data. For two-class imbalanced problems, the classification success is typically measured by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ludmila I. Kuncheva , Álvar Arnaiz-González , José-Francisco Díez-Pastor , Iain A. D. Gunn

Imbalanced data, where the positive samples represent only a small proportion compared to the negative samples, makes it challenging for classification problems to balance the false positive and false negative rates. A common approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Pengfei Lyu , Zhengchi Ma , Linjun Zhang , Anru R. Zhang

To address the modality learning degeneration caused by modality imbalance, existing multimodal learning~(MML) approaches primarily attempt to balance the optimization process of each modality from the perspective of model learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qingyuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Xiao Ma , Qirong Mao , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

Machine learning has automated much of financial fraud detection, notifying firms of, or even blocking, questionable transactions instantly. However, data imbalance starves traditionally trained models of the content necessary to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Samuel Showalter , Zhixin Wu

Purpose: Malicious web domain identification is of significant importance to the security protection of Internet users. With online credibility and performance data, this paper aims to investigate the use of machine learning tech-niques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Zhongyi Hu , Raymond Chiong , Ilung Pranata , Yukun Bao , Yuqing Lin