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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al. 2002) have performed a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of SMOTE- based up-sampling. 2002) provide an example that illustrates the modifications. Generation of artificial examples. Chawla et al., Chawla et al.,