Summary of When Resampling/reweighting Improves Feature Learning in Imbalanced Classification?: a Toy-model Study, by Tomoyuki Obuchi et al.
When resampling/reweighting improves feature learning in imbalanced classification?: A toy-model study
by Tomoyuki Obuchi, Toshiyuki Tanaka
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research investigates how reweighting or resampling data affects feature learning performance when dealing with class imbalance in binary classification. The authors study a toy model and take a high-dimensional limit while keeping the dataset size ratio finite, using a non-rigorous replica method from statistical mechanics. They find that, surprisingly, not reweighting or resampling at all can sometimes lead to the best feature learning performance regardless of the loss function or classifier used. This result is supported by recent findings and highlights the importance of symmetry in the loss function and problem setting. The authors also propose a simplified model for multiclass settings that exhibits the same property, clarifying when reweighting or resampling becomes effective. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how we can learn features from data when some classes have much more information than others. They use a simple math model to figure out what happens when we don’t do anything special about this class imbalance. What they find is that sometimes, just treating all the data equally without trying to balance out the classes gives us the best results. This goes against what you might expect and highlights how important it is for our math and problems to have the right symmetry. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Loss function
