There is a perpetual elevation in demand for higher education in the last decade all over the world; therefore, the need for improving the education system is imminent. Educational data mining is a newly-visible area in the field of data mining and it can be applied to better understanding the educational systems in Bangladesh. In this research, we present how data can be preprocessed using a d...

In this paper, q-Gaussian Radial Basis Functions are presented as an alternative to Gaussian Radial Basis Function. This model is based on q-Gaussian distribution, which parametrizes the Gaussian distribution by adding a new parameter q. The q-Gaussian Radial Basis Function allows different Radial Basis Functions to be represented by updating the new parameter q. For example, when the q-Gaussia...

Imbalanced class distribution is a challenging problem in many real-life classification problems. Existing synthetic oversampling do suffer from the curse of dimensionality because they rely heavily on Euclidean distance. This paper proposed a new method, called Minority Oversampling Technique based on Local Densities in Low-Dimensional Space (or MOT2LD in short). MOT2LD first maps each trainin...

A novel technique of automatically selecting the best pairs of features and sampling techniques to predict the stage of prostate cancer is proposed in this study. The problem of class imbalance, which is prominent in most medical data sets is also addressed here. Three feature subsets obtained by the use of principal components analysis (PCA), genetic algorithm (GA) and rough sets (RS) based ap...

Rare category detection is an open challenge for active learning, especially in the de-novo case (no labeled examples), but of significant practical importance for data mining e.g. detecting new financial transaction fraud patterns, where normal legitimate transactions dominate. This paper develops a new method for detecting an instance of each minority class via an unsupervised local-density-d...

Class-imbalanced datasets are common in the field of mobile Internet industry. We tested three kinds of feature selection techniques-Random Forest (RF), Relative Weight (RW) and Standardized Regression Coefficients (SRC); three kinds of balance methods-over-sampling (OS), under-sampling (US) and synthetic minority over-sampling (SMOTE); a widely used classification method-RF. The combined model...

We introduce a method to deal with the problem of learning from imbalanced data sets, where examples of one class significantly outnumber examples of other classes. Our method selects minority examples from misclassified data given by an ensemble of classifiers. Then, these instances are over-sampled to create new synthetic examples using a variant of the well-known SMOTE algorithm. To build th...

An important task in the area of gene discovery is the correct prediction of the translation initiation site (TIS). The TIS can correspond to the first AUG, but this is not always the case. This task can be modeled as a classification problem between positive (TIS) and negative patterns. Here we have used Support Vector Machine working with data processed by the class balancing method called Sm...

In classification tasks, imbalance data causes the inadequate predictive performance of a tiny minority class because the decision boundary determined by trivial classifiers tends to be biased toward a huge majority class. For handling the class imbalance problem, overand undersampling are applied at the data level. Over-sampling duplicates or synthesizes instances into a minority class. Althou...