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Classification datasets, which feature a skewed class distribution, are said to be class imbalance. Traditional methods favor the larger classes. We propose pairwise ranking as a method for imbalance classification so that learning compares pairs of observations from each class, and therefore both contribute equally to the decision boundary. In previous work, we suggested treating the binary classification as a ranking problem, followed by a threshold mapping to convert back the ranking score to the original classes. In this work, the method is extended to multi-class ordinal classification, and a new mapping threshold is proposed. Results are compared with traditional and ordinal SVMs, and ranking obtains competitive results.
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This work was funded by the Project “NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics/NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016” financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and also by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) within PhD grant numbers SFRH/BD/122248/2016 and SFRH/BD/93012/2013.
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Cruz, R., Fernandes, K., Pinto Costa, J.F., Ortiz, M.P., Cardoso, J.S. (2017). Ordinal Class Imbalance with Ranking. In: Alexandre, L., Salvador Sánchez, J., Rodrigues, J. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58838-4_1
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