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New CISO framework offers per-instance safety guarantees for imbalanced learning

Researchers have developed Certified Interpolation Safe Oversampling (CISO), a novel three-phase framework designed to generate synthetic data instances for imbalanced learning tasks. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on predictive performance, CISO incorporates a safety objective, ensuring each synthetic instance possesses a verifiable safety property. The framework provides guarantees regarding the distance of synthetic data from majority classes and allows for controlled shifts between boundary-seeking and interior-seeking synthesis, all while maintaining competitive predictive accuracy. AI

IMPACT This research introduces a novel approach to synthetic data generation that prioritizes safety alongside predictive performance, potentially improving the reliability of models trained on imbalanced datasets.

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New CISO framework offers per-instance safety guarantees for imbalanced learning

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Pankaj Yadav, Vivek Vijay ·

    Certified Interpolation Oversampling: Per-Instance Safety Guarantees for Imbalanced Learning

    arXiv:2501.15790v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic minority oversampling is typically designed and evaluated against a predictive objective, generating samples that improve downstream classification. This paper pursues a second objective by generating samples tha…