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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. return synthetic. link] Hall, L.,

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

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Because of its architecture, intrinsically explainable ANNs can be optimised not just on its prediction performance, but also on its explainability metric. PDPs for the bicycle count prediction model (Molnar, 2009). Courville, Pascal Vincent, Visualizing Higher-Layer Features of a Deep Network, 2009. Ribeiro, M. Guestrin, C.,

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