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Short answer To select the proper dataset to construct, you should first figure out a metric to use to compare, and then select the dataset construction that gives the better metric. There is no single best metric, it depends on the task and your interpretation on what type of error is more important. If you believe it is important that errors should not be ...

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@nbro pointed out the paper A systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks, which tested class imbalance LeNet for MNIST, on a custom CNN for CIFAR-10, and on ResNet for ImageNet. The paper found that by artificially creating class imbalance on those data sets, the neural networks are significantly deteriorated. The ROC ...

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In my experience, GANs work really well for the scenario of semi-supervised learning, where you don't necessarily have labels for all your class $B$ data, but you do have a balanced dataset. In my (limited) experience, you do have to have a balanced (in numbers) set of $A$ and $B$ objects, even though you are not sure of the labels. And yes, GANs can overfit ...

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You can use stratified cross validation combined with an imbalanced learning technique applied to the training data. Stratification ensures that when you split your data into train and test, the ratio of frequencies between the classes will stay the same and therefore the test data will always be "realistic". However, when training a model (using ...

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One thing to try first is Focal Loss. This particular loss works well for classification or object detection where your dataset is unbalanced and contains many classes. In short, the loss suppresses highly confident predictions and gives the model more room to learn from other less confident classes. You can read this blog to have more intuition about focal ...

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The paper A systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks is a great overview on class imbalance approaches. Section 2 summarizes various methods commonly used. They categorize "Adding Class Weights for an imbalanced dataset" under the technique "Cost sensitive learning": Cost sensitive learning. This ...

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