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Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 312-321

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24694-7_32

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Class Imbalances versus Class Overlapping: An Analysis of a Learning System Behavior

Proceedings article published in 2004 by Ronaldo C. Prati ORCID, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Maria Carolina Monard
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Abstract

Several works point out class imbalance as an obstacle on applying machine learning algorithms to real world domains. However, in some cases, learning algorithms perform well on several imbalanced domains. Thus, it does not seem fair to directly correlate class imbalance to the loss of performance of learning algorithms. In this work, we develop a systematic study aiming to question whether class imbalances are truly to blame for the loss of performance of learning systems or whether the class imbalances are not a problem by themselves. Our experiments suggest that the problem is not directly caused by class imbalances, but is also related to the degree of overlapping among the classes.