Dealing with difficult minority labels in imbalanced mutilabel data sets

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Multilabel classification is an emergent data mining task with a broad range of real world applications. Learning from imbalanced multilabel data is being deeply studied latterly, and several resampling methods have been proposed in the literature. The unequal label distribution in most multilabel datasets, with disparate imbalance levels, could be a handicap while learning new classifiers. In addition, this characteristic challenges many of the existent preprocessing algorithms. Furthermore, the concurrence between imbalanced labels can make harder the learning from certain labels. These are what we call difficult labels. In this work, the problem of difficult labels is deeply analyzed, its influence in multilabel classifiers is studied, and a novel way to solve this problem is proposed. Specific metrics to assess this trait in multilabel datasets, called SCUMBLE (Score of ConcUrrence among iMBalanced LabEls) and SCUMBLELbl, are presented along with REMEDIAL (REsampling MultilabEl datasets by Decoupling highly ImbAlanced Labels), a new algorithm aimed to relax label concurrence. How to deal with this problem using the R mldr package is also outlined.
Year of Publication
2019
Journal
Neurocomputing
Volume
326
Number of Pages
39-53
DOI
10.1016/j.neucom.2016.08.158
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