A position oversampling based on ensemble for imbalanced multi-class classification

doi:10.1007/s13042-025-02636-7

A position oversampling based on ensemble for imbalanced multi-class classification

2025-04-25

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DOI：10.1007/s13042-025-02636-7

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The performance of classification methods is adversely affected by imbalanced multi-class data. Oversampling is a common solution for addressing imbalanced multi-class classification in data preprocessing. However, excessive oversampling of minority classes results in noise generation and decreases classification accuracy. To solve these problems, a multi-class SMOTEBoost (MSMOTEBoost) method is developed for imbalanced multi-class classification. MSMOTEBoost contains three key components. First, to avoid the generation of noisy examples, the weight of safety (WOS) is designed to select candidate examples for interpolation. Second, to alleviate the excessive interpolation density in certain regions, the weight of multi-class neighbors (WON) is designed to replace the neighborhood random selection process for the dynamic extension of the minority classes. Finally, a multi-class oversampling method fused with AdaBoost.M2 is developed to improve the diversity and robustness of the method. Extensive experiments and statistical analyses of real data are performed to validate the performance of the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that MSMOTEBoost is competitive.

Keywords:

Imbalanced data

Multi-class classification

Resampling techniques

Ensemble learning

A position oversampling based on ensemble for imbalanced multi-class classification

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