Ad-RuLer: A Novel Rule-Driven Data Synthesis Technique for Imbalanced Classification

Autor: Xiao Zhang, Iván Paz, Àngela Nebot, Francisco Mugica, Enrique Romero
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 23, p 12636 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app132312636
Popis: When classifiers face imbalanced class distributions, they often misclassify minority class samples, consequently diminishing the predictive performance of machine learning models. Existing oversampling techniques predominantly rely on the selection of neighboring data via interpolation, with less emphasis on uncovering the intrinsic patterns and relationships within the data. In this research, we present the usefulness of an algorithm named RuLer to deal with the problem of classification with imbalanced data. RuLer is a learning algorithm initially designed to recognize new sound patterns within the context of the performative artistic practice known as live coding. This paper demonstrates that this algorithm, once adapted (Ad-RuLer), has great potential to address the problem of oversampling imbalanced data. An extensive comparison with other mainstream oversampling algorithms (SMOTE, ADASYN, Tomek-links, Borderline-SMOTE, and KmeansSMOTE), using different classifiers (logistic regression, random forest, and XGBoost) is performed on several real-world datasets with different degrees of data imbalance. The experiment results indicate that Ad-RuLer serves as an effective oversampling technique with extensive applicability.
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