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OligoIS: Scalable Instance Selection for Class-Imbalanced Data Sets

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Nicolás García‐Pedrajas *
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Javier Pérez-Rodríguez
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Aida de Haro-García
DOI:10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2206381delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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In current research, an enormous amount of information is constantly being produced, which poses a challenge for data mining algorithms. Many of the problems in extremely active research areas, such as bioinformatics, security and intrusion detection, or text mining, share the following two features: large data sets and class-imbalanced distribution of samples. Although many methods have been proposed for dealing with class-imbalanced data sets, most of these methods are not scalable to the very large data sets common to those research fields. In this paper, we propose a new approach to dealing with the class-imbalance problem that is scalable to data sets with many millions of instances and hundreds of features. This proposal is based on the divide-and-conquer principle combined with application of the selection process to balanced subsets of the whole data set. This divide-and-conquer principle allows the execution of the algorithm in linear time. Furthermore, the proposed method is easy to implement using a parallel environment and can work without loading the whole data set into memory. Using 40 class-imbalanced medium-sized data sets, we will demonstrate our method's ability to improve the results of state-of-the-art instance selection methods for class-imbalanced data sets. Using three very large data sets, we will show the scalability of our proposal to millions of instances and hundreds of features.
Keywords:
Class-imbalance problem
instance selection
instance-based learning
very large problems

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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics cover
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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10.5
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1.1W
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universidad de cordoba
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