arXiv Machine Learning

Neural Prior Estimation: Learning Class Priors from Latent Representations

arXiv:2602. 17853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Logit adjustment corrects class imbalance using the empirical class prior.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

RoBell-RVFL: A Robust Generalized Bell Random Vector Functional Link Network

RoBell-RVFL is a lightweight, quality‑aware generalized bell random vector functional link network designed to address class imbalance and noisy data in real‑world datasets. It uses a dual‑strategy sample‑level weighting: unit weights preserve minority class information, while a probability‑weighted generalized bell membership function suppresses noisy majority samples in a kernel‑induced feature space. Experiments on UCI and KEEL benchmarks, including tests with up to 40% label noise, show that RoBell‑RVFL consistently outperforms recent RVFL variants, demonstrating the importance of adaptive, quality‑aware sample weighting for robust learning.

By A. Rahaman, A. Quadir, M. Tanveer
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Bayes-Optimal BER and AUC: Estimation and Evaluation of Estimators

The paper introduces soft‑label‑based estimators for the Bayes‑optimal balanced error rate (BER) and area under the ROC curve (AUC), extending from a clean setting with known class priors to a realistic scenario with unknown priors and corrupted soft labels. It also adapts the FeeBee evaluation framework to assess these estimators without needing the true optimum, providing practical evaluation scores for any estimator of optimal BER or AUC. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets confirm the effectiveness of both the estimators and the evaluation method.

By Ryota Ushio, Takashi Ishida, Masashi Sugiyama
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

LeNEPA: No-Augmentation Next-Latent Prediction for Time-Series Representation Learning

arXiv:2607. 00958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series are central to modern data mining applications, from industrial telemetry and server metrics to finance and physiology, yet time-series self-supervised learning often depends on view and augmentation choices that encode domain-specific invariances.

By Alexander Chemeris, Ming Jin, Randall Balestriero
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

When Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Improve Score-Based Imbalanced Classification?

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Hierarchical Empirical-Bayes Naive Bayes: Minimax Smoothing and Calibration with AODE Extension

arXiv:2608. 11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Naive Bayes (NB) classifier remains a standard choice for categorical data, yet its widely used smoothing rules, such as Laplace, Lidstone, Krichevsky-Trofimov, and the $m$-estimate, all prescribe a fixed smoothing strength that ignores feature cardinality, sample size, and class imbalance, inducing a non-vanishing bias on modern high-cardinality tabular data.

By Nguyen Thai Anh, Truong Viet Vu, Tran Thien Thanh, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Ngo Hoang Tu