Handling Class Imbalance Problems via Weighted BP Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoqin Wang;Huaxiang Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014;College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014

  • Venue:
  • ADMA '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

When using Neural Networks (NN) to handle class imbalance problems, there exists a fact that minority class makes less contribution to the error function than the majority class, so the network learned prefers to recognizing majority class data which we pay less attention to. This paper proposes a novel algorithm WNN (Weighted NN) to solve this problem using a newly defined error function in BP (BP) algorithm. Experimental results executed on 20 UCI datasets show that the approach can effectively enhance the recognition rate of minority class data.