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Real-world datasets are often highly class-imbalanced, which can adversely impact the performance of deep learning models. The majority of research on training neural networks under class imbalance has focused on specialized loss functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Micah Goldblum , Yucen Lily Li , C. Bayan Bruss , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Class imbalance is a common problem in the case of real-world object detection and classification tasks. Data of some classes is abundant making them an over-represented majority, and data of other classes is scarce, making them an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ferdous Sohel , Roberto Togneri

A common strategy in transfer learning is few shot fine-tuning, but its success is highly dependent on the quality of samples selected as training examples. Active learning methods such as uncertainty sampling and diversity sampling can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wei Han , David Martinez , Anna Khanina , Lawrence Cavedon , Karin Verspoor

Understanding and managing uncertainty is crucial in machine learning, especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare, where class imbalance can impact predictions. This paper introduces RIGA, a novel pipeline that mitigates class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Mahdi Arab Loodaricheh , Neh Majmudar , Anita Raja , Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi

There are many real-world classification problems wherein the issue of data imbalance (the case when a data set contains substantially more samples for one/many classes than the rest) is unavoidable. While under-sampling the problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 John McKay , Isaac Gerg , Vishal Monga

We propose sequenced-replacement sampling (SRS) for training deep neural networks. The basic idea is to assign a fixed sequence index to each sample in the dataset. Once a mini-batch is randomly drawn in each training iteration, we refill…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chiu Man Ho , Dae Hoon Park , Wei Yang , Yi Chang

Large-scale datasets may contain significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels, and it is well-known that modern deep neural networks (DNNs) poorly generalize from such noisy training datasets. To mitigate the issue, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Kimin Lee , Sukmin Yun , Kibok Lee , Honglak Lee , Bo Li , Jinwoo Shin

Model learning from class imbalanced training data is a long-standing and significant challenge for machine learning. In particular, existing deep learning methods consider mostly either class balanced data or moderately imbalanced data in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

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

Data imbalance persists as a pervasive challenge in regression tasks, introducing bias in model performance and undermining predictive reliability. This is particularly detrimental in applications aimed at predicting rare events that fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jelke Wibbeke , Sebastian Rohjans , Andreas Rauh

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

Class imbalance is a problem of significant importance in applied deep learning where trained models are exploited for decision support and automated decisions in critical areas such as health and medicine, transportation, and finance. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Colin Bellinger , Roberto Corizzo , Nathalie Japkowicz

Training deep learning models on medical datasets that perform well for all classes is a challenging task. It is often the case that a suboptimal performance is obtained on some classes due to the natural class imbalance issue that comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Suraj Kothawade , Atharv Savarkar , Venkat Iyer , Lakshman Tamil , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rishabh Iyer

Crash data is often greatly imbalanced, with the majority of crashes being non-fatal crashes, and only a small number being fatal crashes due to their rarity. Such data imbalance issue poses a challenge for crash severity modeling since it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Junlan Chen , Ziyuan Pu , Nan Zheng , Xiao Wen , Hongliang Ding , Xiucheng Guo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in graph classification tasks by capturing both structural and feature-based representations. However, real-world graphs often exhibit two critical forms of imbalance: class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shangyou Wang , Zezhong Ding , Xike Xie

The rapid advancement in data-driven research has increased the demand for effective graph data analysis. However, real-world data often exhibits class imbalance, leading to poor performance of machine learning models. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yihong Ma , Yijun Tian , Nuno Moniz , Nitesh V. Chawla

Regions of high-dimensional input spaces that are underrepresented in training datasets reduce machine-learnt classifier performance, and may lead to corner cases and unwanted bias for classifiers used in decision making systems. When these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Colin Paterson , Radu Calinescu , Chiara Picardi

Class imbalance is a challenging issue in practical classification problems for deep learning models as well as for traditional models. Traditionally successful countermeasures such as synthetic over-sampling have had limited success with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Kumari Deepshikha , Anugunj Naman

Class imbalance, where certain classes have insufficient data, poses a critical challenge for robust classification, often biasing models toward majority classes. Distribution calibration offers a promising avenue to address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Priyobrata Mondal , Faizanuddin Ansari , Swagatam Das

Imbalanced Learning is an important learning algorithm for the classification models, which have enjoyed much popularity on many applications. Typically, imbalanced learning algorithms can be partitioned into two types, i.e., data level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Tianlun Zhang , Xi Yang