Lesson Plan
Handling Imbalanced
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Data InPlan
ML
Polymorphism and
Encapsulation
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Topic to covered:
Understanding Imbalanced Dat
Techniques for Handling Imbalanced Dat
Evaluation Metrics for Imbalanced Dat
Advanced Technique
Real-world Applications and Case Studie
Best Practices and Consideration
Challenges and Limitation
Tools and Libraries
Understanding Imbalanced Data
Imbalanced datasets refer to those where the distribution of classes is not uniform.
For instance, in a binary classification problem, if one class (majority class) heavily outweighs the other
(minority class), it creates an imbalance.
This can lead to biased models as algorithms tend to favor the majority class, affecting the model's ability
to predict the minority class accurately.
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Techniques for Handling Imbalanced Data
Resampling Methods
Oversampling: Increasing the number of instances in the minority class
Undersampling: Reducing the number of instances in the majority class.
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Synthetic Data Generation
Generating synthetic samples to balance the dataset, such as using the ADASYN algorithm.
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Evaluation Metrics for Imbalanced Data
In imbalanced datasets, accuracy can be misleading due to the disproportionate class distribution.
Instead, evaluation metrics like precision, recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC, and PR curve provide a more
comprehensive understanding of model performance.
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Advanced Techniques:
Ensemble methods like XGBoost, AdaBoost, or Random Forests can handle imbalanced data effectively
due to their inherent ability to weigh different samples or classes.
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Real-world Applications and Case Studies
Fraud Detection in Financ
In finance, imbalanced data is common in fraud detection tasks, where fraudulent transactions are
relatively rare compared to legitimate ones.
Techniques like anomaly detection, oversampling the minority class, or using cost-sensitive learning
methods can be applied.
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Medical Diagnosis and Healthcare
In medical diagnosis, imbalanced data can occur when certain diseases or conditions are rare.
Handling imbalanced data here involves careful model evaluation and validation to ensure high
sensitivity (recall) while maintaining specificity.
Techniques like resampling or using specialized algorithms are employed.
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Best Practices and Considerations
Before applying techniques to handle imbalanced data, it's crucial to preprocess data, handle missing
values, normalize/standardize features, and perform relevant feature engineering to enhance model
performance.
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Best PracticChallenges and Limitationses and
Considerations
Overfitting in Oversamplin
Oversampling techniques might lead to overfitting on the minority class. Generating synthetic samples
that are too close to existing ones may hinder the model's ability to generalize.
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Tools and Libraries
Libraries like “imbalanced-learn” provide various techniques for handling imbalanced data, including
resampling methods, cost-sensitive learning, and ensemble techniques tailored for imbalanced datasets.
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