10 Techniques to deal with Imbalanced Classes in Machine Learning

10 Techniques to deal with Imbalanced Classes in Machine Learning

Overview

  • Get familiar with class imbalance
  • Understand various techniques to treat imbalanced classes such as-
    • Random under-sampling
    • Random over-sampling
    • NearMiss

Introduction

When observation in one class is higher than the observation in other classes then there exists a class imbalance. Example: To detect fraudulent credit card transactions. As you can see in the below graph fraudulent transaction is around 400 when compared with non-fraudulent transaction around 90000.

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