A novel oversampling technique based on the manifold distance for class imbalance learning
by Yinan Guo; Botao Jiao; Lingkai Yang; Jian Cheng; Shengxiang Yang; Fengzhen Tang
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC), Vol. 18, No. 3, 2021

Abstract: Oversampling is a popular problem-solver for class imbalance learning by generating more minority samples to balance the dataset size of different classes. However, resampling in original space is ineffective for the imbalance datasets with class overlapping or small disjunction. Based on this, a novel oversampling technique based on manifold distance is proposed, in which a new minority sample is produced in terms of the distances among neighbours in manifold space, rather than the Euclidean distance among them. After mapping the original data to its manifold structure, the overlapped majority and minority samples will lie in areas easily being partitioned. In addition, the new samples are generated based on the neighbours locating nearby in manifold space, avoiding the adverse effect of the disjoint minority classes. Following that, an adaptive adjustment method is presented to determine the number of the newly generated minority samples according to the distribution density of the matched-pair data. The experimental results on 48 imbalanced datasets indicate that the proposed oversampling technique has the better classification accuracy.

Online publication date: Mon, 29-Nov-2021

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