Start globally, optimize locally, predict globally: Improving performance on imbalanced data

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-152

  Cieslak, David A ^a   Chawla, Nitesh V ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DATASETS; CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL SAMPLING; IMBALANCED DATA; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; MULTI-MODAL; OPTIMAL SAMPLING; REAL-WORLD; TRAINING DATA;

CLASSIFIERS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MINING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67049119859     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2008.87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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