Imbalanced Data Classification Based on Extreme Learning Machine Autoencoder

In practice, there are many imbalanced data classification problems, for example, spam filtering, credit card fraud detection and software defect prediction etc. it is important in theory as well as in application for investigating the problem of imbalanced data classification. In order to deal with this problem, based on extreme learning machine autoencoder, this paper proposed an approach for addressing the problem of binary imbalanced data classification. The proposed method includes 3 steps. (1) the positive instances are used as seeds, new samples are generated for increasing the number of positive instances by extreme learning machine autoencoder, the generated new samples are similar with the positive instances but not same. (2) step (1) is repeated several times, and a balanced data set is obtained. (3) a classifier is trained with the balanced data set and used to classify unseen samples. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is feasible and effective.