TITLE: Handling Imbalanced Datasets Through Optimum-Path Forest 

ABSTRACT: In the last decade, machine learning-based approaches became capable of
performing a wide range of complex tasks sometimes better than humans,
demanding a fraction of the time. Such an advance is partially due to the
exponential growth in the amount of data available, which makes it possible to
extract trustworthy real-world information from them. However, such data is
generally imbalanced since some phenomena are more likely than others. Such a
behavior yields considerable influence on the machine learning model's
performance since it becomes biased on the more frequent data it receives.
Despite the considerable amount of machine learning methods, a graph-based
approach has attracted considerable notoriety due to the outstanding
performance over many applications, i.e., the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF). In
this paper, we propose three OPF-based strategies to deal with the imbalance
problem: the $\text{O}^2$PF and the OPF-US, which are novel approaches for
oversampling and undersampling, respectively, as well as a hybrid strategy
combining both approaches. The paper also introduces a set of variants
concerning the strategies mentioned above. Results compared against several
state-of-the-art techniques over public and private datasets confirm the
robustness of the proposed approaches.
In the last decade, machine learning-based approaches became capable of
performing a wide range of complex tasks sometimes better than humans,
demanding a fraction of the time. Such an advance is partially due to the
exponential growth in the amount of data available, which makes it possible to
extract trustworthy real-world information from them. However, such data is
generally imbalanced since some phenomena are more likely than others. Such a
behavior yields considerable influence on the machine learning model's
performance since it becomes biased on the more frequent data it receives.
Despite the considerable amount of machine learning methods, a graph-based
approach has attracted considerable notoriety due to the outstanding
performance over many applications, i.e., the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF). In
this paper, we propose three OPF-based strategies to deal with the imbalance
problem: the $\text{O}^2$PF and the OPF-US, which are novel approaches for
oversampling and undersampling, respectively, as well as a hybrid strategy
combining both approaches. The paper also introduces a set of variants
concerning the strategies mentioned above. Results compared against several
state-of-the-art techniques over public and private datasets confirm the
robustness of the proposed approaches.
Handling Imbalanced Datasets Through Optimum-Path Forest
http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08934v1