scholarly journals An Improved Hybrid Approach for Handling Class Imbalance Problem

Author(s):  
Abeer S. Desuky ◽  
Sadiq Hussain
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.14) ◽  
pp. 478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartono . ◽  
Opim Salim Sitompul ◽  
Erna Budhiarti Nababan ◽  
Tulus . ◽  
Dahlan Abdullah ◽  
...  

Data mining and machine learning techniques designed to solve classification problems require balanced class distribution. However, in reality sometimes the classification of datasets indicates the existence of a class represented by a large number of instances whereas there are classes with far fewer instances. This problem is known as the class imbalance problem. Classifier Ensembles is a method often used in overcoming class imbalance problems. Data Diversity is one of the cornerstones of ensembles. An ideal ensemble system should have accurrate individual classifiers and if there is an error it is expected to occur on different objects or instances. This research will present the results of overview and experimental study using Hybrid Approach Redefinition (HAR) Method in handling class imbalance and at the same time expected to get better data diversity. This research will be conducted using 6 datasets with different imbalanced ratios and will be compared with SMOTEBoost which is one of the Re-Weighting method which is often used in handling class imbalance. This study shows that the data diversity is related to performance in the imbalance learning ensembles and the proposed methods can obtain better data diversity.  


Author(s):  
Hartono Hartono ◽  
Erianto Ongko

Class imbalance is one of the main problems in classification because the number of samples in majority class is far more than the number of samples in minority class.  The class imbalance problem in the multi-class dataset is much more difficult to handle than the problem in the two class dataset. This multi-class imbalance problem is even more complicated if it is accompanied by overlapping. One method that has proven reliable in dealing with this problem is the Hybrid Approach Redefinition-Multiclass Imbalance (HAR-MI) method which is classified as a hybrid approach which combines sampling and classifier ensembles. However, in terms of diversity among classifiers, hybrid approach that combine sampling and classifier ensembles will give better results. HAR-MI delivers excellent results in handling multi-class imbalances. The HAR-MI method uses SMOTE to increase the number of sample in minority class. However, this SMOTE also has a weakness where if there is an extremely imbalanced dataset and a large number of attributes there will be over-fitting. To overcome the problem of over-fitting, the Hybrid Sampling method was proposed. HAR-MI combination with Hybrid Sampling is done to increase the number of samples in the minority class and at the same time reduce the number of noise samples in the majority class. The preprocessing stages at HAR-MI will use the Minimizing Overlapping Selection under Hybrid Sazmpling (MOSHS) method and the processing stages will use Different Contribution Sampling. The results obtained will be compared with the results using Neighbourhood-based undersampling. Overlapping and Classifier Performance will be measured using Augmented R-Value, the Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), Precision, Recall, and F-Value. The results showed that HAR-MI with Hybrid Sampling gave better results in terms of Augmented R-Value, Precision, Recall, and F-Value.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eréndira Rendón ◽  
Roberto Alejo ◽  
Carlos Castorena ◽  
Frank J. Isidro-Ortega ◽  
Everardo E. Granda-Gutiérrez

The class imbalance problem has been a hot topic in the machine learning community in recent years. Nowadays, in the time of big data and deep learning, this problem remains in force. Much work has been performed to deal to the class imbalance problem, the random sampling methods (over and under sampling) being the most widely employed approaches. Moreover, sophisticated sampling methods have been developed, including the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE), and also they have been combined with cleaning techniques such as Editing Nearest Neighbor or Tomek’s Links (SMOTE+ENN and SMOTE+TL, respectively). In the big data context, it is noticeable that the class imbalance problem has been addressed by adaptation of traditional techniques, relatively ignoring intelligent approaches. Thus, the capabilities and possibilities of heuristic sampling methods on deep learning neural networks in big data domain are analyzed in this work, and the cleaning strategies are particularly analyzed. This study is developed on big data, multi-class imbalanced datasets obtained from hyper-spectral remote sensing images. The effectiveness of a hybrid approach on these datasets is analyzed, in which the dataset is cleaned by SMOTE followed by the training of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with those data, while the neural network output noise is processed with ENN to eliminate output noise; after that, the ANN is trained again with the resultant dataset. Obtained results suggest that best classification outcome is achieved when the cleaning strategies are applied on an ANN output instead of input feature space only. Consequently, the need to consider the classifier’s nature when the classical class imbalance approaches are adapted in deep learning and big data scenarios is clear.


Author(s):  
Hartono Hartono ◽  
Erianto Ongko ◽  
Yeni Risyani

<span>In the classification process that contains class imbalance problems. In addition to the uneven distribution of instances which causes poor performance, overlapping problems also cause performance degradation. This paper proposes a method that combining feature selection and hybrid approach redefinition (HAR) method in handling class imbalance and overlapping for multi-class imbalanced. HAR was a hybrid ensembles method in handling class imbalance problem. The main contribution of this work is to produce a new method that can overcome the problem of class imbalance and overlapping in the multi-class imbalance problem.  This method must be able to give better results in terms of classifier performance and overlap degrees in multi-class problems. This is achieved by improving an ensemble learning algorithm and a preprocessing technique in HAR <span>using minimizing overlapping selection under SMOTE (MOSS). MOSS was known as a very popular feature selection method in handling overlapping. To validate the accuracy of the proposed method, this research use augmented R-Value, Mean AUC, Mean F-Measure, Mean G-Mean, and Mean Precision. The performance of the model is evaluated against the hybrid method (MBP+CGE) as a popular method in handling class imbalance and overlapping for multi-class imbalanced. It is found that the proposed method is superior when subjected to classifier performance as indicate with better Mean AUC, F-Measure, G-Mean, and precision.</span></span>


Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuong Le ◽  
Minh Thanh Vo ◽  
Bay Vo ◽  
Mi Young Lee ◽  
Sung Wook Baik

The diagnosis of bankruptcy companies becomes extremely important for business owners, banks, governments, securities investors, and economic stakeholders to optimize the profitability as well as to minimize risks of investments. Many studies have been developed for bankruptcy prediction utilizing different machine learning approaches on various datasets around the world. Due to the class imbalance problem occurring in the bankruptcy datasets, several special techniques would be used to improve the prediction performance. Oversampling technique and cost-sensitive learning framework are two common methods for dealing with class imbalance problem. Using oversampling techniques and cost-sensitive learning framework independently also improves predictability. However, for datasets with very small balancing ratios, combining two above techniques will produce the better results. Therefore, this study develops a hybrid approach using oversampling technique and cost-sensitive learning, namely, HAOC for bankruptcy prediction on the Korean Bankruptcy dataset. The first module of HAOC is oversampling module with an optimal balancing ratio found in the first experiment that will give the best overall performance for the validation set. Then, the second module uses the cost-sensitive learning model, namely, CBoost algorithm to bankruptcy prediction. The experimental results show that HAOC will give the best performance value for bankruptcy prediction compared with the existing approaches.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1906
Author(s):  
Jia-Zheng Jian ◽  
Tzong-Rong Ger ◽  
Han-Hua Lai ◽  
Chi-Ming Ku ◽  
Chiung-An Chen ◽  
...  

Diverse computer-aided diagnosis systems based on convolutional neural networks were applied to automate the detection of myocardial infarction (MI) found in electrocardiogram (ECG) for early diagnosis and prevention. However, issues, particularly overfitting and underfitting, were not being taken into account. In other words, it is unclear whether the network structure is too simple or complex. Toward this end, the proposed models were developed by starting with the simplest structure: a multi-lead features-concatenate narrow network (N-Net) in which only two convolutional layers were included in each lead branch. Additionally, multi-scale features-concatenate networks (MSN-Net) were also implemented where larger features were being extracted through pooling the signals. The best structure was obtained via tuning both the number of filters in the convolutional layers and the number of inputting signal scales. As a result, the N-Net reached a 95.76% accuracy in the MI detection task, whereas the MSN-Net reached an accuracy of 61.82% in the MI locating task. Both networks give a higher average accuracy and a significant difference of p < 0.001 evaluated by the U test compared with the state-of-the-art. The models are also smaller in size thus are suitable to fit in wearable devices for offline monitoring. In conclusion, testing throughout the simple and complex network structure is indispensable. However, the way of dealing with the class imbalance problem and the quality of the extracted features are yet to be discussed.


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