Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 23537-23548Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2899467
Keywords
Imbalanced data; SMOTE; oversampling; constructive covering algorithm; data cleaning
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61806002, 61872002, 61673020, 61876001, 61602003]
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province [1708085QF143, 1808085MF197]
- Doctoral Scientific Research Start-Up Foundation of Anhui University [J01003253]
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Oversampling is an efficient technique in dealing with class-imbalance problem. It addresses the problem by reduplicating or generating the minority class samples to balance the distribution between the samples of the majority and the minority class. Synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) is one of the typical representatives. During the past decade, researchers have proposed many variants of SMOTE. However, the existing oversampling methods may generate wrong minority class samples in some scenarios. Furthermore, how to effectively mine the inherent complex characteristics of imbalanced data remains a challenge. To this end, this paper proposes a parameter-free data cleaning method to improve SMOTE based on constructive covering algorithm. The dataset generated by SMOTE is first partitioned into a group of covers, then the hard-to-learn samples can be detected based on the characteristics of sample space distribution. Finally, a pair-wise deletion strategy is proposed to remove the hard-to-learn samples. The experimental results on 25 imbalanced datasets show that our proposed method is superior to the comparison methods in terms of various metrics, such as F-measure, G-mean, and Recall. Our method not only can reduce the complexity of the dataset but also can improve the performance of the classification model.
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