Entropy-based Sampling Approaches for Multi-Class Imbalanced Problems
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
11-1-2020
Abstract
In data mining, large differences between multi-class distributions regarded as class imbalance issues have been known to hinder the classification performance. Unfortunately, existing sampling methods have shown their deficiencies such as causing the problems of over-generation and over-lapping by oversampling techniques, or the excessive loss of significant information by undersampling techniques. This paper presents three proposed sampling approaches for imbalanced learning: The first one is the entropy-based oversampling (EOS) approach; the second one is the entropy-based undersampling (EUS) approach; the third one is the entropy-based hybrid sampling (EHS) approach combined by both oversampling and undersampling approaches. These three approaches are based on a new class imbalance metric, termed entropy-based imbalance degree (EID), considering the differences of information contents between classes instead of traditional imbalance-ratio. Specifically, to balance a data set after evaluating the information influence degree of each instance, EOS generates new instances around difficult-to-learn instances and only remains the informative ones. EUS removes easy-to-learn instances. While EHS can do both simultaneously. Finally, we use all the generated and remaining instances to train several classifiers. Extensive experiments over synthetic and real-world data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Volume
32
Issue
11
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Li, Lusi, Haibo He, and Jie Li. "Entropy-based Sampling Approaches for Multi-Class Imbalanced Problems." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 32, 11 (2020): 2159-2170. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2019.2913859.
