A proposal of evolutionary prototype selection for class imbalance problems

  • Authors:
  • Salvador García;José Ramón Cano;Alberto Fernández;Francisco Herrera

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Linares, Jaén, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Unbalanced data in a classification problem appears when there are many more instances of some classes than others. Several solutions were proposed to solve this problem at data level by under-sampling. The aim of this work is to propose evolutionary prototype selection algorithms that tackle the problem of unbalanced data by using a new fitness function. The results obtained show that a balancing of data performed by evolutionary under-sampling outperforms previously proposed under-sampling methods in classification accuracy, obtaining reduced subsets and getting a good balance on data.