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In classification problems, the datasets are usually imbalanced, noisy or complex. Most sampling algorithms only make some improvements to the linear sampling mechanism of the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE). Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Min Li , Hao Zhou , Qun Liu , Yabin Shao , Guoying Wang

Class imbalance in machine learning poses a significant challenge, as skewed datasets often hinder performance on minority classes. Traditional oversampling techniques, which are commonly used to alleviate class imbalance, have several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sukumar Kishanthan , Asela Hevapathige

The paper proposes the Quantum-SMOTE method, a novel solution that uses quantum computing techniques to solve the prevalent problem of class imbalance in machine learning datasets. Quantum-SMOTE, inspired by the Synthetic Minority…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Nishikanta Mohanty , Bikash K. Behera , Christopher Ferrie , Pravat Dash

The imbalanced data classification is one of the most crucial tasks facing modern data analysis. Especially when combined with other difficulty factors, such as the presence of noise, overlapping class distributions, and small disjuncts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Michał Koziarski , Michał Woźniak , Bartosz Krawczyk

Classification of imbalanced datasets is a challenging task for standard algorithms. Although many methods exist to address this problem in different ways, generating artificial data for the minority class is a more general approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Georgios Douzas , Fernando Bacao

Financial fraud detection poses a typical challenge characterized by class imbalance, where instances of fraud are extremely rare but can lead to unpredictable economic losses if misidentified. Precisely classifying these critical minority…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Lingyun Zhong

Prior work has shown that Visual Recognition datasets frequently underrepresent bias groups $B$ (\eg Female) within class labels $Y$ (\eg Programmers). This dataset bias can lead to models that learn spurious correlations between class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Maan Qraitem , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Learning from imbalanced data is among the most challenging areas in contemporary machine learning. This becomes even more difficult when considered the context of big data that calls for dedicated architectures capable of high-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 William C. Sleeman , Bartosz Krawczyk

Imbalanced datasets are ubiquitous. Classification performance on imbalanced datasets is generally poor for the minority class as the classifier cannot learn decision boundaries well. However, in sensitive applications like fraud detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Vishwa Karia , Wenhao Zhang , Arash Naeim , Ramin Ramezani

Text classification is the task of automatically assigning text documents correct labels from a predefined set of categories. In real-life (text) classification tasks, observations and misclassification costs are often unevenly distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aleksi Avela , Pauliina Ilmonen

Class-imbalance is an inherent characteristic of multi-label data which affects the prediction accuracy of most multi-label learning methods. One efficient strategy to deal with this problem is to employ resampling techniques before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Bin Liu , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Class imbalance is a substantial challenge in classifying many real-world cases. Synthetic over-sampling methods have been effective to improve the performance of classifiers for imbalance problems. However, most synthetic over-sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Hadi A. Khorshidi , Uwe Aickelin

Class imbalance would lead to biased classifiers that favor the majority class and disadvantage the minority class. Unfortunately, from a practical perspective, the minority class is of importance in many real-life applications. Hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wenbin Pei , Ruohao Dai , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Yiu-Ming Cheung , Shuyin Xia

Class imbalance remains a critical challenge in machine learning (ML), particularly in the medical domain, where underrepresented minority classes lead to biased models and reduced predictive performance. This study introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Vikas Kashtriya , Pardeep Singh

Imbalanced datasets in medical imaging are characterized by skewed class proportions and scarcity of abnormal cases. When trained using such data, models tend to assign higher probabilities to normal cases, leading to biased performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yumnah Hasan , Fatemeh Amerehi , Patrick Healy , Conor Ryan

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

Machine learning classifiers often stumble over imbalanced datasets where classes are not equally represented. This inherent bias towards the majority class may result in low accuracy in labeling minority class. Imbalanced learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Wenhao Zhang , Ramin Ramezani , Arash Naeim

This paper evaluates six strategies for mitigating imbalanced data: oversampling, undersampling, ensemble methods, specialized algorithms, class weight adjustments, and a no-mitigation approach referred to as the baseline. These strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jacques Wainer

Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) is the most popular over-sampling method. However, its random nature makes the synthesized data and even imbalanced classification results unstable. It means that in case of running SMOTE n…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hadi Mansourifar , Weidong Shi

The collected data from industrial machines are often imbalanced, which poses a negative effect on learning algorithms. However, this problem becomes more challenging for a mixed type of data or while there is overlapping between classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Masoumeh Zareapoor , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jie Yang