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Imbalanced Data

[ɪmˈbælənst ˈdeɪtə]
Machine Learning
Last updated: December 9, 2024

Definition

Datasets where the distribution of target variables is significantly skewed.

Detailed Explanation

Imbalanced data refers to situations where the classes in a classification problem are not represented equally. This imbalance can lead to models that are biased toward the majority class and perform poorly on minority classes. Various techniques like oversampling undersampling and synthetic data generation can help address this issue.

Use Cases

Fraud detection disease diagnosis anomaly detection

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