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Subsampling algorithms for various parametric regression models with massive data have been extensively investigated in recent years. However, all existing studies on subsampling heavily rely on clean massive data. In practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Jiangshan Ju , Mingqiu Wang , Shengli Zhao

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

This paper introduces a novel oversampling technique designed to improve classification performance on imbalanced datasets. The proposed method enhances the traditional SMOTE algorithm by incorporating convex combination and kernel-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenjie Li , Sibo Zhu , Zhijian Li , Hanlin Wang

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

A data set sampled from a certain population is biased if the subgroups of the population are sampled at proportions that are significantly different from their underlying proportions. Training machine learning models on biased data sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Jing An , Lexing Ying , Yuhua Zhu

The imbalance problem is widespread in the field of machine learning, which also exists in multimodal learning areas caused by the intrinsic discrepancy between modalities of samples. Recent works have attempted to solve the modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenke Xia , Xu Zhao , Xincheng Pang , Changqing Zhang , Di Hu

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

Missing values are routinely treated as defects to be eliminated through deletion or imputation prior to machine learning. In many applied domains, however, missingness itself carries information, reflecting experimental constraints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Amanda S Barnard

A key challenge of oversampling in imbalanced classification is that the generation of new minority samples often neglects the usage of majority classes, resulting in most new minority sampling spreading the whole minority space. In view of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Hao Luo , Li Liu

An approach to the construction of classifiers from imbalanced datasets is described. A dataset is imbalanced if the classification categories are not approximately equally represented. Often real-world data sets are predominately composed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-25 N. V. Chawla , K. W. Bowyer , L. O. Hall , W. P. Kegelmeyer

The problem of class imbalance along with class-overlapping has become a major issue in the domain of supervised learning. Most supervised learning algorithms assume equal cardinality of the classes under consideration while optimizing the…

Downsampling or under-sampling is a technique that is utilized in the context of large and highly imbalanced classification models. We study optimal downsampling for imbalanced classification using generalized linear models (GLMs). We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Yan Chen , Jose Blanchet , Krzysztof Dembczynski , Laura Fee Nern , Aaron Flores

Pattern recognition applications often suffer from skewed data distributions between classes, which may vary during operations w.r.t. the design data. Two-class classification systems designed using skewed data tend to recognize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Roghayeh Soleymani , Eric Granger , Giorgio Fumera

The problem of class imbalanced data is that the generalization performance of the classifier deteriorates due to the lack of data from minority classes. In this paper, we propose a novel minority over-sampling method to augment diversified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Seulki Park , Youngkyu Hong , Byeongho Heo , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

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

Deep Learning methods have significantly advanced various data-driven tasks such as regression, classification, and forecasting. However, much of this progress has been predicated on the strong but often unrealistic assumption that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Josias Moukpe

The prevailing IR-threshold paradigm posits a positive correlation between imbalance ratio (IR) and oversampling effectiveness, yet this assumption remains empirically unsubstantiated through controlled experimentation. We conducted 12…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yuwen Jiang , Songyun Ye

Numerous Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have gained attention in software Log Anomaly Detection (LAD), yet class imbalance in training data remains a challenge, with anomalies often comprising less than 1% of datasets like Thunderbird.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xiaoxue Ma , Huiqi Zou , Pinjia He , Jacky Keung , Yishu Li , Xiao Yu , Federica Sarro

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

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