166 research outputs found
Learning Active Learning from Data
In this paper, we suggest a novel data-driven approach to active learning
(AL). The key idea is to train a regressor that predicts the expected error
reduction for a candidate sample in a particular learning state. By formulating
the query selection procedure as a regression problem we are not restricted to
working with existing AL heuristics; instead, we learn strategies based on
experience from previous AL outcomes. We show that a strategy can be learnt
either from simple synthetic 2D datasets or from a subset of domain-specific
data. Our method yields strategies that work well on real data from a wide
range of domains
Handling class imbalance in credit card fraud using resampling methods
Credit card based online payments has grown intensely, compelling the financial organisations to implement and continuously improve their fraud detection system. However, credit card fraud dataset is heavily imbalanced and different types of misclassification errors may have different costs and it is essential to control them, to a certain degree, to compromise those errors. Classification techniques are the promising solutions to detect the fraud and non-fraud transactions. Unfortunately, in a certain condition, classification techniques do not perform well when it comes to huge numbers of differences in minority and majority cases. Hence in this study, resampling methods, Random Under Sampling, Random Over Sampling and Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique, were applied in the credit card dataset to overcome the rare events in the dataset. Then, the three resampled datasets were classified using classification techniques. The performances were measured by their sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, precision, area under curve (AUC) and error rate. The findings disclosed that by resampling the dataset, the models were more practicable, gave better performance and were statistically better
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