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We propose a novel output layer activation function, which we name ASTra (Asymmetric Sigmoid Transfer function), which makes the classification of minority examples, in scenarios of high imbalance, more tractable. We combine this with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 David Twomey , Denise Gorse

Methods to correct class imbalance, i.e. imbalance between the frequency of outcome events and non-events, are receiving increasing interest for developing prediction models. We examined the effect of imbalance correction on the performance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-21 Ruben van den Goorbergh , Maarten van Smeden , Dirk Timmerman , Ben Van Calster

Detecting fraudulent auto-insurance claims remains a challenging classification problem, largely due to the extreme imbalance between legitimate and fraudulent cases. Standard learning algorithms tend to overfit to the majority class,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Francis Boabang , Samuel Asante Gyamerah

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on downstream tasks through in-context learning (ICL), which heavily relies on the demonstrations selected from annotated datasets. However, these datasets often exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hongfu Gao , Feipeng Zhang , Hao Zeng , Deyu Meng , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei

Data in real-world application often exhibit skewed class distribution which poses an intense challenge for machine learning. Conventional classification algorithms are not effective in the case of imbalanced data distribution, and may fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Enlu Lin , Qiong Chen , Xiaoming Qi

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

Recently, deep learning models have achieved great success in computer vision applications, relying on large-scale class-balanced datasets. However, imbalanced class distributions still limit the wide applicability of these models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yechan Kim , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

In this study, we consider classification problems based on neural networks in data-imbalanced environment. Learning from an imbalanced data set is one of the most important and practical problems in the field of machine learning. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-02 Muneki Yasuda , Seishirou Ueno

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

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

Many real world data analysis problems exhibit invariant structure, and models that take advantage of this structure have shown impressive empirical performance, particularly in deep learning. While the literature contains a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Clare Lyle , Mark van der Wilk , Marta Kwiatkowska , Yarin Gal , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy

A number of computer vision deep regression approaches report improved results when adding a classification loss to the regression loss. Here, we explore why this is useful in practice and when it is beneficial. To do so, we start from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia L. Pintea , Yancong Lin , Jouke Dijkstra , Jan C. van Gemert

Unsupervised learning on imbalanced data is challenging because, when given imbalanced data, current model is often dominated by the major category and ignores the categories with small amount of data. We develop a latent variable model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Fariba Yousefi , Zhenwen Dai , Carl Henrik Ek , Neil Lawrence

With the ever increasing data deluge and the success of deep neural networks, the research of distributed deep learning has become pronounced. Two common approaches to achieve this distributed learning is synchronous and asynchronous weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Debasrita Chakraborty , Ashish Ghosh

Many real-world data are sequentially collected over time and often exhibit skewed class distributions, resulting in imbalanced data streams. While existing approaches have explored several strategies, such as resampling and reweighting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Han Zhou , Hongpeng Yin , Xuanhong Deng , Yuyu Huang , Hao Ren

Training and fine-tuning deep learning models, especially large language models (LLMs), on limited and imbalanced datasets poses substantial challenges. These issues often result in poor generalization, where models overfit to dominant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ashok Choudhary , Cornelius Thiels , Hojjat Salehinejad

Graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) has already gained significant importance and has become a popular field of study, attracting considerable attention across numerous downstream works. The core focus of this domain is to capture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zitong Wang , Xuexiong Luo , Enfeng Song , Qiuqing Bai , Fu Lin

The margin-based softmax loss functions greatly enhance intra-class compactness and perform well on the tasks of face recognition and object classification. Outperformance, however, depends on the careful hyperparameter selection. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 JT Wu , L. Wang

Machine learning models are typically deployed in a test setting that differs from the training setting, potentially leading to decreased model performance because of domain shift. If we could estimate the performance that a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zeju Li , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mobarakol Islam , Chen Chen , Ben Glocker

Likelihood training and maximization-based decoding result in dull and repetitive generated texts even when using powerful language models (Holtzman et al., 2019). Adding a loss function for regularization was shown to improve text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Evgeny Lagutin , Daniil Gavrilov , Pavel Kalaidin