A boosting-aided adaptive cluster- based undersampling approach for treatment of class imbalance problem

The subject of a class imbalance is a well-investigated topic which addresses performance degradation of standard learning models due to uneven distribution of classes in a dataspace. Cluster-based undersampling is a popular solution in the domain which offers to eliminate majority class instances from a definite number of clusters to balance the training data. However, distance-based elimination of instances often got affected by the underlying data distribution. Recently, ensemble learning techniques have emerged as effective solution due to its weighted learning principle of rare instances. In this article, a boosting aided adaptive cluster-based undersampling technique is proposed to facilitate elimination of learning- insignificant majority class instances from the clusters, detected through AdaBoost ensemble learning model. The proposed work is validated with seven existing cluster based undersampling techniques for six binary datasets and three classification models. The experimental results have established the effectives of the proposed technique than the existing methods.