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Class imbalance happens when there is a different class distribution in the dataset. Let's take an example. Assume we are working on a churn problem. In this specific scenario, our minor and majority classes are customer churn, and the customer stays with the current service provider. But if you explore this problem more, you will notice fewer customers for the churn category because customer churn is an infrequent event that is good for business but not for the model. As a result, if we feed this dataset into the model, it will learn the majority pattern (non-churn scenario) more accurately than the minor scenario. This is where our problem begins.\n* * *\nLearn this step by step with the interactive [AI and Data Scientist](https://roadmap.sh/ai-data-scientist) and [Machine Learning](https://roadmap.sh/machine-learning) roadmaps.\n## How to deal with the class imbalance in machine learning\nThe most obvious answer is since model interaction with the minor class during training is less, we can improve that by adding more minor classes to the model. But how? We have a few methods:\n 1. Collecting more data for the minor class - This is a theoretically easy and practically infeasible solution. Because it's hard to do this while covering the business's actual needs, as an example, we may have to change the logic to get more customers into the churn category.\n 2. Random Oversampling - We can duplicate minor classes till we get a decent class distribution. It may result in the model learning inaccurate churn scenarios. In simple words, it will over-learn little incident patterns.\n 3. Random Undersampling - We can remove the samples from the majority classes to balance the dataset. However, it will remove some signals from the dataset. Also, if our dataset is highly imbalanced (minor samples are less than 1%), we may have to remove significant majority class samples from our dataset to make it more balanced.\n 4. We can generate synthetic data - We will focus on this more deeply in this article.\n\n\n## Generating synthetic data for rebalancing the dataset\nThe basic idea behind this is to generate more minor class samples similar to the existing ones in the minority class. But unlike repeating minor class instances multiple times, this will generate new minor class instances based on the dataset we have. For that SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique) method is commonly used. But there are many alternatives for that, such as...\n 1. ADASYN (Adaptive Synthetic Sampling)\n 2. Tomek Links: This technique removes samples from the majority class that are very close to examples in the minority class. The idea is to remove easy cases from the majority class that will likely be misclassified as the minority class.\n 3. Near Miss: This technique selects samples from the majority classes closest in feature space to examples in the minority class and removes them from the dataset. The idea is similar to Tomek Links, but instead of eliminating easy cases from the majority class, it removes samples most likely to be misclassified as the minority class.\n\n\nLet's do some experiments around SMOTE.\nFirst, import the dataset. Here I am using a _Wine Quality dataset_ _**,**__and you can access the dataset using_[ _this_](https://zenodo.org/record/61452#.Y7OfjHZBzrd) _link_. Let's load the dataset and plot the class distribution.\npython\n\n```\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\n\n#read the dataset\ndata = np.load('x20data.npz')\n\ndf = pd.DataFrame(data['data'])\ndf['target'] = data['label']\ndf['target'] = df['target'].replace(-1,0)\n\n#lets plot class distribution\ndf['target']\n.value_counts(normalize=True)\n.plot\n.bar(figsize=(10,6),alpha=0.6)\n\nplt.xlabel(\"Label\")\nplt.ylabel(\"Distribution %\")\nplt.yticks(list(np.linspace(0,1,11)))\nplt.grid(True)\nplt.show()\n```\n\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1sm1wugPgxcZYNwIzeKvCwA.png)\nImage by Author\nNow we can use the imblearn library to perform SMOTE on our dataset. In the below code, we will do SMOTE on our dataset and plot both the original and resamples versions of the dataset.\npython\n\n```\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nfrom sklearn.manifold import TSNE\nfrom imblearn.over_sampling import SMOTE\n\n# Set the font family for matplotlib\nplt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'Verdana'\n\n# Split your data into features and labels\nX = df.drop('target', axis=1)\ny = df['target']\n\n# Define the SMOTE resampling method\nsmote = SMOTE(random_state=42)\n\n# Resample the data using SMOTE\nX_resampled, y_resampled = smote.fit_resample(X, y)\n\n# Use TSNE for dimensionalilty reduction\nX_tsne = TSNE(n_components=2).fit_transform(X)\nX_resampled_tsne = TSNE(n_components=2).fit_transform(X_resampled)\n\n# Get the class ratios\noriginal_class_ratio = np.bincount(y) / len(y)\nresampled_class_ratio = np.bincount(y_resampled) / len(y_resampled)\n\n# Create subplots\nfig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(12, 6))\n\n# Plot the original data\nax1.scatter(X_tsne[:, 0], X_tsne[:, 1], c=y, cmap='rainbow',alpha=0.4)\nax1.set_title(f'Original DatanClass Ratio: {original_class_ratio[1] * 100:.1f} : {original_class_ratio[0] * 100:.1f}')\n\n# Plot the resampled data\nax2.scatter(X_resampled_tsne[:, 0], X_resampled_tsne[:, 1], c=y_resampled, cmap='rainbow',alpha=0.4)\nax2.set_title(f'Resampled DatanClass Ratio: {resampled_class_ratio[1] * 100:.0f} : {resampled_class_ratio[0] * 100:.0f}')\n\nplt.show()\n```\n\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1oPd8x7383wqkPvil7LnZuA.png)\nImage by Author\nAs you can see in the plots, we have converted 220 original minor incidents into 2152, its ~9x increase. That's where the problem lies. Let's focus on our specific churn problem.\n 1. Generating such fake customer data can lead the model to learn patterns that do not exist in the real world.\n 2. In most cases, we have quality issues in the dataset. As a result, there is a high chance of adding noises into datasets. Generating new data using noisy data is a bad idea.\n\n\nWith these potential issues, we have the below question in front.\n> Are we gonna deploy these models into production?\nIf it's a churn or fraud detection problem, I will not deploy it on production because these customer data can become noisier after applying SMOTE. But the answer to the above question highly depends on the data and business problem we are working on. Generally, it's not a good idea to rely on SMOTE when data is noisy and the problem is complex.\nLet's build a classifier using oversampled data and evaluate the model.\npython\n\n```\nfrom sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix, roc_auc_score, roc_curve, ConfusionMatrixDisplay\n\ndef plot_confusion_matrix_and_roc(model,df):\n\n \"\"\"Helper function for plotting model performances\"\"\" \n\n # Make predictions on the holdout set\n\n X,y = df.drop('target',axis=1), df['target']\n\n y_pred = model.predict(X)\n\n # Create the confusion matrix\n cm = confusion_matrix(y, y_pred)\n\n # Calculate the AUC ROC score\n auc = roc_auc_score(y, y_pred)\n\n # Get the FPR and TPR for the ROC curve\n fpr, tpr, thresholds = roc_curve(y, y_pred)\n\n # Create a figure with two subplots\n fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(10, 5))\n\n # Plot the confusion matrix\n ax1.matshow(cm, cmap='Blues')\n ax1.set_title('Confusion Matrix')\n ax1.set_xlabel('Predicted')\n ax1.set_ylabel('Actual')\n\n # Add labels to the confusion matrix\n # for i in range(cm.shape[0]):\n # for j in range(cm.shape[1]):\n # ax1.text(j, i, f'{cm[i, j]:n}', ha='center', va='center')\n\n # Add labels for the TP, FP, TN, and FN cells\n ax1.text(0, 0, f'TN: {cm[0, 0]:n}', ha='center', va='center', color='w')\n ax1.text(0, 1, f'FN: {cm[1, 0]:n}', ha='center', va='center', color='k')\n ax1.text(1, 0, f'FP: {cm[0, 1]:n}', ha='center', va='center', color='k')\n ax1.text(1, 1, f'TP: {cm[1, 1]:n}', ha='center', va='center', color='k')\n\n # Plot the ROC curve\n ax2.plot(fpr, tpr, label='AUC ROC = %0.2f' % auc)\n ax2.plot([0, 1], [0, 1], 'k--')\n ax2.set_title('ROC Curve')\n ax2.set_xlabel('FPR')\n ax2.set_ylabel('TPR')\n ax2.legend()\n\n plt.show()\n\n#train the model\n\nfrom xgboost import XGBClassifier\n\nmodel = XGBClassifier()\nmodel.fit(X_resampled,y_resampled)\n\nplot_confusion_matrix_and_roc(model,df_holdout)\n```\n\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1NTxrQjssMXZYEdsMnvgO_A.png)\nImage by Author\nNow it's time to experiment with other approaches for class imbalance. Below I have explained a few methods I have used to tackle imbalance problems.\n 1. Use class weights\n 2. Change evaluation metrics\n 3. Create more features by doing error analysis for the model\n 4. Use an unsupervised algorithm to detect clusters of the dataset.\n\n\nLet's dive deep into these methods.\n## Use class weights\nWhen training a model on a dataset with class imbalance, the loss function may be dominated by the majority class because it has more instances. It can cause the model to pay more attention to the majority class than the minority class. The main idea of class weights is assigning weights for each sample based on its class. It will give more weight to the minority class during training. Meaning the model will pay more attention to the minority class during training in an effort to improve its performance in that class.\n> In advance, class weights can be used to balance the loss function by assigning higher weights to the minority class, so that it has a greater impact on the loss function. This can help the model to better learn the characteristics of the minority class and improve its performance on it.\nMathematically, class weights are typically incorporated into the loss function by multiplying the loss for each example by the weight for its class. For example, suppose we have a dataset with two classes (0 and 1) and the following class weights:\nini\n\n```\nclass_weights = {0: 1, 1: 10}\n```\n\nThe loss function for a binary classification model might be defined as follows:\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1kp3D_LqyIxAjYCxGyFo2ow.png)\nImage by Author\nTo incorporate class weights into this loss function, we can modify it as follows:\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1POlfTtV2cTg_nKAvqreAOg.png)\nImage by Author\nNow, when the model is trained, the loss for each example will be multiplied by the class weight for its class. It will cause the model to pay more attention to the minority class since its samples will significantly impact the loss function.\nMost major machine learning models accept the _sample _weight_ parameter. Here is an example of how you can do this with the XGBoost library.\npython\n\n```\n# this will compute sample weight for us\nfrom sklearn.utils import compute_sample_weight\n\n#coputing class weights, this will be (num_samples_in_y,)\nsample_weights = compute_sample_weight(class_weight='balanced',y=y)\n\nmodel = XGBClassifier()\n\n# just plug sample weight parameter into your model\nmodel.fit(X,y,sample_weight=sample_weights)\n```\n\nOne thing to notice here is that sample weights can potentially lead to overfitting if the weights are too high. It's generally a good idea to try a range of weights and see which gives the best performance on the validation set.\nAlternatively, we can use the [scale_pos_weight](https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parameter.html) parameter in XGBoost as well. It will give you similar results.\nLet's quickly plot the above model performance.\n![Image by Author](https://assets.insightmediagroup.io/media/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/19_0abYNvnbcDL6YshB4aHQ.png)\nImage by Author\nIf you check the confusion matrix for the above two scenarios. In that case, you will notice high false positives in the oversampled scenario. We have fewer false positive predictions using class weights. It also reduced our true positives as well. So we have to tweak our approaches based on real business needs.\n## Change evaluation metrics\nMost libraries use accuracy as the default evaluation metric for classification tasks. It's okay for balanced problems. But imbalanced problems will lead the model to guess the majority class without learning any potential signals.\nFor example, say we have 97 non-churn customers and three churn customers. Building a model and using accuracy as an evaluation metric can achieve 97% accuracy by blindly predicting non-churn class for every 100 samples. As an easy fix, we can change the evaluation metric into something different. Precision, Recall, F1 Score, and Balanced Accuracy are a few best options for the imbalance classification task.\n## Create more features by doing error analysis for the model\nWhen your model performs poorly, we can use error analysis to find different data segments with varying performance levels. Let's take the previous churn example; we can find the model's error vs. customers' revenue bucket and identify revenue segments where the model is good and evil. Likewise, we can create an error analysis report with this information. After the error analysis report, we can determine possible new features which the model can use to distinguish the churner vs. the non-churner scenarios.\nFor example, if you know low revenue users are churning because of the \"XYZ\" reason, you can add that feature if it's not already in the model. Otherwise, you can perform feature engineering methods with that potential feature, such as binning the \"XYZ\" feature.\n## Use an unsupervised algorithm to detect clusters of the dataset\nOne of the powerful and popular approaches is segmentation. If we know some features that can be used for segregating data into different subgroups, we can use those features for the clustering model. After clustering, you will note various class imbalances in other groups. There are a few possible scenarios. Such as,\n 1. You may find subgroups only with one class. After verifying this customer behaviour, we can further skip modelling for this particular subgroup. It will reduce the imbalance of the whole dataset.\n 2. You may find a somewhat balanced distribution that is easy to model compared to the previous dataset.\n 3. Or, you may find subgroups with a highly imbalanced class distribution. But this is not lousy compared to the original distribution. The reason for this is this imbalance occurs in similar data points and can be a strong signal even though the distribution is imbalanced. For example, if we are working on a disease prediction model, it's a good idea to group people into subgroups based on age. If the general class imbalance is 2%, grouping on age will produce different class distributions for different subgroups. In the higher age group, this will be more balanced. In the middle and young age groups, this will be highly imbalanced. Since we are modelling each segment separately, the model can generalize to that particular segment well.\n\n\n## Conclusion\nThis article aims to show alternatives to treat class imbalance other than synthetic data generation. It's worth noting that some methods heavily depend on the data, problem type, and domain you are working on. It's always a good idea to experiment with a few different approaches and pick the best one for your problem.\nPlease find the citation and license information for the above dataset.\n 1. Citation: Lemaitre, G., Nogueira, F., Aridas, C. K., & Oliveira, D. V. R. (2016). Imbalanced dataset for benchmarking [Data set]. Zenodo. \n 2. Dataset license : [Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/)\n\n\nThanks for reading.\n## Register Now to Continue Reading\n### Unlock Towards Data Science with a Free Account\nAll articles on Towards Data Science are available to registered users. 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