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Nearest-Neighbor-Based Active Learning for Rare Category Detection
Jingrui He · Jaime Carbonell

Wed Dec 05 11:50 AM -- 12:00 PM (PST) @
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Rare category detection is an open challenge for active learning, especially in the de-novo case (no labeled examples), but of significant practical importance for data mining - e.g. detecting new financial transaction fraud patterns, where normal legitimate transactions dominate. This paper develops a new method for detecting an instance of each minority class via an unsupervised local-density-differential sampling strategy. Essentially a variable-scale nearest neighbor process is used to optimize the probability of sampling tightly-grouped minority classes, subject to a local smoothness assumption of the majority class. Results on both synthetic and real data sets are very positive, detecting each minority class with only a fraction of the actively sampled points required by random sampling and by Pelleg's Interleave method, the prior best technique in the sparse literature on this topic.

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Jingrui He (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)

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