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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

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. return synthetic.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation. And for good reason!