Deal with class imbalance (without generating synthetic samples): Clustering Based Bagging Algorithm (CBBA)

To deal with class imbalance, take a look at “In classification, how do you handle an unbalanced training set?”.

Definitely, the answers were very creative.

The rookie way to deal with class imbalance

The rookie’s way:

The approach of under-sampling the majority class is an effective method in dealing with classifying imbalanced data sets. But it has a deficiency of ignoring useful information.

I came across a paper on this: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24918-1_20

Clustering Based Bagging Algorithm (CBBA)

In order to eliminate this deficiency, we propose a Clustering Based Bagging Algorithm (CBBA). In CBBA, we cluster the majority class into several groups. We randomly sample instances from each group. We combine those sampled instances together with the minority class instances. Then, we use them to train a base classifier. We produce the final by combining those classifiers. The experimental results show that our approach outperforms the under-sampling method.

If the answer still seems hazy, kindly read the below content. We would use different wordings to explain the concept.

The approaches are not hard. These are flexible. They provide room to be creative and depend on the dataset you are working with.

Explanation of Clustering-Based Bagging Algorithm (CBBA)

Wording 1:

Decompose your larger class into a smaller number of other classes. This is tricky and totally dependent on the kind of data you have. For something like 30 instances of A vs 4000 instances of B. You would decompose the 4000 instances of B into 1000 instances of B1 and 3000 instances of unknown. Effectively you are reducing the difference in the number of instances between A and B1.

Wording 2:

Divide the more abundant class into L distinct clusters. Then train L predictors, where we train each predictor on only one of the distinct clusters. But on all of the data from the rare class. To be clear, we use the data from the rare class in the training of all L predictors. Finally, use model averaging for the L learned predictors as your final predictor.

Conclusion

Running an ensemble of classifiers on these sets could produce a much better result than one classifier alone.

Check out the comments on the Reddit post Classification when 80% of my training set is of one class.

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