Contrastive Representation-Guided Genetic Minority Oversampling for Imbalanced Time-Series Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22804v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:03:51 GMT
• Title: Contrastive Representation-Guided Genetic Minority Oversampling for Imbalanced Time-Series Classification
• Abstract summary: Real-world time-series classification tasks often exhibit class imbalance, which can be extremely severe in some applications.<n>This paper proposes a Frequency-domain representation-guided Multi-tree Genetic Programming-based oversampling approach to imbalanced time-series classification.
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• Abstract: Real-world time-series classification tasks often exhibit class imbalance, which can be extremely severe in some applications. To avoid training biased classifiers on imbalanced data, sampling is one of the most popular data pre-processing techniques because of its classifier-agnostic nature. However, due to the complex temporal dependencies in original time-series data and the scarcity of minority-class samples, existing sampling methods, including interpolation-based oversampling methods and deep learning-based generative models, usually suffer from limited generalization and poor diversity when generating new time-series samples. This paper proposes a Frequency-domain representation-guided Multi-tree Genetic Programming-based oversampling approach (FreMGP) to imbalanced time-series classification, where each individual represents a set of synthetic samples for the minority class. A frequency-domain class-discriminative representation module based on contrastive learning is also developed, guiding the evolutionary search toward high-quality synthetic time-series samples. Experiments on imbalanced time-series datasets demonstrate that FreMGP outperforms existing oversampling methods and consistently improves the performance of different classifiers, including both general machine learning and deep learning models.

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