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Natural-neighborhood based, label-specific undersampling for imbalanced, multi-label data

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  • Payel Sadhukhan

    (TCG CREST)

  • Sarbani Palit

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

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This work presents a novel undersampling scheme to tackle the imbalance problem in multi-label datasets. We use the principles of the natural nearest neighborhood and follow a paradigm of label-specific undersampling. Natural-nearest neighborhood is a parameter-free principle. Our scheme’s novelty lies in exploring the parameter-optimization-free natural nearest neighborhood principles. The class imbalance problem is particularly challenging in a multi-label context, as the imbalance ratio and the majority–minority distributions vary from label to label. Consequently, the majority–minority class overlaps also vary across the labels. Working on this aspect, we propose a framework where a single natural neighbor search is sufficient to identify all the label-specific overlaps. Natural neighbor information is also used to find the key lattices of the majority class (which we do not undersample). The performance of the proposed method, NaNUML, indicates its ability to mitigate the class-imbalance issue in multi-label datasets to a considerable extent. We could also establish a statistically superior performance over other competing methods several times. An empirical study involving twelve real-world multi-label datasets, seven competing methods, and four evaluating metrics—shows that the proposed method effectively handles the class-imbalance issue in multi-label datasets. In this work, we have presented a novel label-specific undersampling scheme, NaNUML, for multi-label datasets. NaNUML is based on the parameter-free natural neighbor search and the key factor, neighborhood size ‘k’ is determined without invoking any parameter optimization.

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  • Payel Sadhukhan & Sarbani Palit, 2024. "Natural-neighborhood based, label-specific undersampling for imbalanced, multi-label data," Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Springer;German Classification Society - Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl);Japanese Classification Society (JCS);Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG);International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), vol. 18(3), pages 723-744, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:advdac:v:18:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s11634-024-00589-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s11634-024-00589-3
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