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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

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Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. Machine Learning, 57–78.

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

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but it generally relies on measuring the entropy in the change of predictions given a perturbation of a feature. Instead, you should focus on how techniques like PDPs and LIME can be used to gain insights into the model’s inner workings and how you can add those to your data science toolbox. See Wei et al. References.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

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For this reason we don’t report uncertainty measures or statistical significance in the results of the simulation. Ramp-up solution: measure epoch and condition on its effect If one wants to do full traffic ramp-up and use data from all epochs, they must use an adjusted estimator to get an unbiased estimate of the average reward in each arm.