The novelty detection approach for different degrees of class imbalance

  • Authors:
  • Hyoung-joo Lee;Sungzoon Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We show that the novelty detection approach is a viable solution to the class imbalance and examine which approach is suitable for different degrees of imbalance. In experiments using SVM-based classifiers, when the imbalance is extreme, novelty detectors are more accurate than balanced and unbalanced binary classifiers. However, with a relatively moderate imbalance, balanced binary classifiers should be employed. In addition, novelty detectors are more effective when the classes have a non-symmetrical class relationship.