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An Optimized k-NN Approach for Classification on Imbalanced Datasets with Missing Data

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In this paper, we describe our solution for the machine learning prediction challenge in IDA 2016. For the given problem of 2-class classification on an imbalanced dataset with missing data, we first develop an imputation method based on k-NN to estimate the missing values. Then we define a tailored representation for the given problem as an optimization scheme, which consists of learned distance and voting weights for k-NN classification. The proposed solution performs better in terms of the given challenge metric compared to the traditional classification methods such as SVM, AdaBoost or Random Forests.

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Ozan, E.C., Riabchenko, E., Kiranyaz, S., Gabbouj, M. (2016). An Optimized k-NN Approach for Classification on Imbalanced Datasets with Missing Data. In: Boström, H., Knobbe, A., Soares, C., Papapetrou, P. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XV. IDA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46349-0_34

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