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Training models on highly unbalanced data is admitted to be a challenging task for machine learning algorithms. Current studies on deep learning mainly focus on data sets with balanced class labels or unbalanced data, but with massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Louis Marceau , Lingling Qiu , Nick Vandewiele , Eric Charton

Computer vision technology is being used by many but remains representative of only a few. People have reported misbehavior of computer vision models, including offensive prediction results and lower performance for underrepresented groups.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kaiyu Yang , Klint Qinami , Li Fei-Fei , Jia Deng , Olga Russakovsky

The potential for learned models to amplify existing societal biases has been broadly recognized. Fairness-aware classifier constraints, which apply equality metrics of performance across subgroups defined on sensitive attributes such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Ananth Balashankar , Alyssa Lees , Chris Welty , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Deep metric learning (DML) enables learning with less supervision through its emphasis on the similarity structure of representations. There has been much work on improving generalization of DML in settings like zero-shot retrieval, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Natalie Dullerud , Karsten Roth , Kimia Hamidieh , Nicolas Papernot , Marzyeh Ghassemi

With the rapid growth of memory and computing power, datasets are becoming increasingly complex and imbalanced. This is especially severe in the context of clinical data, where there may be one rare event for many cases in the majority…

Supervised learning from training data with imbalanced class sizes, a commonly encountered scenario in real applications such as anomaly/fraud detection, has long been considered a significant challenge in machine learning. Motivated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yunru Liu , Tingran Gao , Haizhao Yang

Neural networks trained with class-imbalanced data are known to perform poorly on minor classes of scarce training data. Several recent works attribute this to over-fitting to minor classes. In this paper, we provide a novel explanation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

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

Many real-world applications reveal difficulties in learning classifiers from imbalanced data. The rising big data era has been witnessing more classification tasks with large-scale but extremely imbalance and low-quality datasets. Most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhining Liu , Wei Cao , Zhifeng Gao , Jiang Bian , Hechang Chen , Yi Chang , Tie-Yan Liu

Learning classifiers using skewed or imbalanced datasets can occasionally lead to classification issues; this is a serious issue. In some cases, one class contains the majority of examples while the other, which is frequently the more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Satyendra Singh Rawat , Amit Kumar Mishra

We show that deep networks trained to satisfy demographic parity often do so through a form of race or gender awareness, and that the more we force a network to be fair, the more accurately we can recover race or gender from the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Michael Lohaus , Matthäus Kleindessner , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

Class imbalance in graph-structured data, where minor classes are significantly underrepresented, poses a critical challenge for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). To address this challenge, existing studies generally generate new minority nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Qian Wang , Zemin Liu , Zhen Zhang , Bingsheng He

We propose a novel algorithm for learning fair representations that can simultaneously mitigate two notions of disparity among different demographic subgroups in the classification setting. Two key components underpinning the design of our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Han Zhao , Amanda Coston , Tameem Adel , Geoffrey J. Gordon

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

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

Class imbalance is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in real world data distributions. To overcome its detrimental effect on training accurate classifiers, existing work follows three major directions: class re-balancing, information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Rahul Duggal , Shengyun Peng , Hao Zhou , Duen Horng Chau

Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have achieved exceptional performance on tabular classification tasks. However, like other classifiers, their performance can suffer under the effect of class imbalance, resulting in poor performance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Samuel McDowell , Nathan Stromberg , Lalitha Sankar

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

Data-driven AI systems can lead to discrimination on the basis of protected attributes like gender or race. One reason for this behavior is the encoded societal biases in the training data (e.g., females are underrepresented), which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Vasileios Iosifidis , Arjun Roy , Eirini Ntoutsi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress, but often suffer from fairness issues, as deep models typically show distinct accuracy differences among certain subgroups (e.g., males and females). Existing research addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Tianlin Li , Qing Guo , Aishan Liu , Mengnan Du , Zhiming Li , Yang Liu