A Hybrid Approach Using Oversampling Technique and Cost‐Sensitive Learning for Bankruptcy Prediction

Abstract

The diagnosis of bankruptcy companies becomes extremely important for business owners, banks, governments, securities investors, and economic stakeholders to optimize the profitability as well as to minimize risks of investments. Many studies have been developed for bankruptcy prediction utilizing different machine learning approaches on various datasets around the world. Due to the class imbalance problem occurring in the bankruptcy datasets, several special techniques would be used to improve the prediction performance. Oversampling technique and cost-sensitive learning framework are two common methods for dealing with class imbalance problem. Using oversampling techniques and cost-sensitive learning framework independently also improves predictability. However, for datasets with very small balancing ratios, combining two above techniques will produce the better results. Therefore, this study develops a hybrid approach using oversampling technique and cost-sensitive learning, namely, HAOC for bankruptcy prediction on the Korean Bankruptcy dataset. The first module of HAOC is oversampling module with an optimal balancing ratio found in the first experiment that will give the best overall performance for the validation set. Then, the second module uses the cost-sensitive learning model, namely, CBoost algorithm to bankruptcy prediction. The experimental results show that HAOC will give the best performance value for bankruptcy prediction compared with the existing approaches.

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