arXiv:2501. 15790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic minority oversampling is typically designed and evaluated against a predictive objective, generating samples that improve downstream classification.
arXiv:2606. 24625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in classification, where existing methods such as SMOTE often generate low-quality synthetic samples in regions with noise or class overlap.
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.
SAGE (Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement) is a two-stage generative augmentation framework designed to mitigate spurious correlations in machine learning when group labels are unavailable. It uses cluster-derived sub-labels and class labels to fine‑tune a conditional generative model and text encoder, producing synthetic data that fills underrepresented regions and creates a balanced validation set for last‑layer reweighting. Experiments show SAGE improves worst‑group accuracy to 89.5%, 85.7%, and 79.1% on Waterbirds, CelebA, and MetaShift, outperforming existing group‑label‑free baselines by up to 7.7 percentage points.
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.
The paper introduces a collaborative optimization Boosting model for multiclass imbalanced learning that integrates density and confidence factors to create a noise‑resistant weight update mechanism and a dynamic sampling strategy. The modules are tightly coupled to coordinate weight updates, sample region partitioning, and region‑guided sampling. Experiments on 40 public imbalanced datasets show the model significantly outperforms seven state‑of‑the‑art baselines.
The paper introduces a bias‑correction method for synthetic oversampling in imbalanced learning. It estimates the loss discrepancy caused by the data generator using a held‑out majority subset and transfers this correction to the minority class under a uniform bias‑transfer assumption. The authors provide finite‑sample bounds for bias transfer and excess balanced risk, identify when SMOTE introduces significant bias, and demonstrate the method’s applicability to multi‑task learning and propensity‑score estimation, with empirical results showing greatest benefit when synthetic distortion is large.
arXiv:2606. 26053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic data augmentation is widely used to mitigate class imbalance, but its theoretical effects on score-based classification remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2505. 08784v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As machine learning (ML) enters high-stakes domains, trustworthy uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for safety.
arXiv:2609.16365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world datasets often exhibit long-tailed class distributions, where a few head classes contain a large number of training samples while a large...
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: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.
Deep neural networks are often overconfident, assigning high confidence even to incorrect predictions. Consequently, users lack a reliable signal for deciding when a prediction can be trusted.