A First Approach to Deal with Imbalance in Multi-label Datasets

TitleA First Approach to Deal with Imbalance in Multi-label Datasets
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsCharte, Francisco, Rivera-Rivas A.J., del Jesus M. J., and Herrera F.
Conference Name8th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2013)
Pagination150-160
Date Published9
Conference LocationSalamanca (Spain)
ISBN Number978-3-642-40845-8
Abstract

The process of learning from imbalanced datasets has been deeply studied for binary and multi-class classification. This problem also affects to multi-label datasets. Actually, the imbalance level in multi-label datasets uses to be much larger than in binary or multi-class datasets. Notwithstanding, the proposals on how to measure and deal with imbalanced datasets in multi-label classification are scarce. In this paper, we introduce two measures aimed to obtain information about the imbalance level in multi-label datasets. Furthermore, two preprocessing methods designed to reduce the imbalance level in multi-label datasets are proposed, and their effectiveness is validated experimentally. Finally, an analysis for determining when these methods have to be applied depending on the dataset characteristics is provided.

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TIN2012-33856,TIN2011-28488,TIC-3928,P10-TIC-6858

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-40846-5_16