Imbalanced-learn: A python toolbox to tackle the curse of imbalanced datasets in machine learning

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 18, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-5

  Lemaître, Guillaume ^a   Nogueira, Fernando ^b   Aridas, Christos K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b ShoppeAI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ensemble learning; Imbalanced dataset; Machine learning; Over sampling; Python; Under sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ENSEMBLE LEARNING; IMBALANCED DATASET; OVER SAMPLING; PYTHON; UNDER-SAMPLING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85016274615     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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