arXiv:2509. 07605v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class imbalance poses a significant challenge to supervised classification, particularly in critical domains like medical diagnostics and anomaly detection where minority class instances are rare.
arXiv:2505. 13518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Imbalanced datasets, where one class significantly outnumbers others, remain a persistent challenge in machine learning, often biasing predictions toward the majority class and degrading classifier performance.
arXiv:2409. 13007v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in classification tasks, often causing standard learning algorithms to become biased toward the majority class.
arXiv:2506. 01486v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data imbalance persists as a pervasive challenge in regression tasks, introducing bias in model performance and undermining predictive reliability.
arXiv:2605. 03289v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting observations from a minority class under severe class imbalance is a central challenge in applications such as fraud detection, medical screening, and industrial quality control.
arXiv:2606. 01221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imbalanced learning is a critical challenge in machine learning, where underrepresented target values can bias models and degrade prediction performance on rare but important cases.
arXiv:2606. 10250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class imbalance is a common problem in deep learning that severely degrades performance.
arXiv:2607. 09816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance poses a fundamental challenge in risk-sensitive applications such as fraud detection and medical diagnosis, where minority-class samples are scarce yet critical for accurate classification.
arXiv:2607. 22258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models using traditional softmax classifiers have achieved remarkable success in various classification tasks.
arXiv:2606. 05740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks trained under severe class imbalance often exhibit degraded performance, typically attributed to statistical bias.
Synthetic data augmentation is widely used to mitigate class imbalance, but its theoretical effects on score-based classification remain poorly understood. This paper develops a framework for characterizing when synthetic minority augmentation can improve threshold-integrated and threshold-optimized metrics, including AUROC, AUPRC, best-threshold balanced accuracy, and best-threshold \(\F_1\) score.
The paper surveys tabular imbalanced learning and introduces TILBench, a benchmark evaluating over 40 methods on 57 datasets. It presents a unified taxonomy of approaches and shows that no single method dominates across all settings, with performance depending on dataset regimes and computational constraints. Practical recommendations for method selection and future research directions are provided.
The paper demonstrates that common binary classification metrics—Matthews' correlation coefficient, Cohen's κ, the F-score, and the Jaccard similarity—are not robust to extreme class imbalance, as the Bayes classifier’s true positive rate tends to zero when the minority class proportion vanishes. To address this, the authors propose robustified versions of these metrics that include a tuning parameter, ensuring that the Bayes-optimal classifier’s threshold remains bounded and its true positive rate stays above zero even in highly imbalanced scenarios. The study provides theoretical bounds, simulation results, and practical guidance on applying these robust metrics to real data, such as a credit‑default dataset, and discusses their relationship to ROC and precision‑recall curves.