Anchor-based oversampling for imbalanced tabular data via contrastive and adversarial learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18569v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:25:21 GMT
• Title: Anchor-based oversampling for imbalanced tabular data via contrastive and adversarial learning
• Authors: Hadi Mohammadi, Ehsan Nazerfard, Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani,
• Abstract summary: Imbalanced data represent a distribution with moreprocessed frequencies of one class (majority) than the other (minority)<n>In imbalanced learning, classification algorithms are typically inclined to classify the majority class accurately, resulting in artificially high accuracy rates.<n>This study presents a framework based on boundary anchor samples to tackle the imbalance learning challenge.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Imbalanced data represent a distribution with more frequencies of one class (majority) than the other (minority). This phenomenon occurs across various domains, such as security, medical care and human activity. In imbalanced learning, classification algorithms are typically inclined to classify the majority class accurately, resulting in artificially high accuracy rates. As a result, many minority samples are mistakenly labelled as majority-class instances, resulting in a bias that benefits the majority class. This study presents a framework based on boundary anchor samples to tackle the imbalance learning challenge. First, we select and use anchor samples to train a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier, which acts as a prior knowledge model and aids the adversarial and contrastive learning procedures. Then, we designed a novel deep generative model called Anchor Stabilized Conditional Generative Adversarial Network or Anch-SCGAN in short. Anch-SCGAN is supported with two generators for the minority and majority classes and a discriminator incorporating additional class-specific information from the pre-trained feature extractor MLP. In addition, we facilitate the generator's training procedure in two ways. First, we define a new generator loss function based on reprocessed anchor samples and contrastive learning. Second, we apply a scoring strategy to stabilize the adversarial training part in generators. We train Anch-SCGAN and further finetune it with anchor samples to improve the precision of the generated samples. Our experiments on 16 real-world imbalanced datasets illustrate that Anch-SCGAN outperforms the renowned methods in imbalanced learning.

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