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A proximity weighted evidential k nearest neighbor classifier for imbalanced data

Md Eusha Kadir, Pritom Saha Akash, Sadia Sharmin, Amin Ahsan Ali, Mohammad Shoyaib

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 24th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2020, Singapore, May 11–14, 2020, Proceedings, Part II 24

Springer International Publishing, pp. 71–83, ISBN: 9783030474355

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47436-2_6Open AccessURL

Keywords

  • class imbalance
  • Dempster-Shafer theory
  • evidential learning
  • minority class bias
  • k-nearest neighbors
  • class probability estimation
  • evidence combination

CCDS Authors

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

  • Director, AI/ML Wing

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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