A new hybrid approach based on genetic algorithm and support vector machine methods for hyperparameter optimization in synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE)

Abstract

<abstract> <p>The crucial problem when applying classification algorithms is unequal classes. An imbalanced dataset problem means, particularly in a two-class dataset, that the group variable of one class is comparatively more dominant than the group variable of the other class. The issue stems from the fact that the majority class dominates the minority class. The synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) has been developed to deal with the classification of imbalanced datasets. SMOTE algorithm increases the number of samples by interpolating between the clustered minority samples. The SMOTE algorithm has three critical parameters, "k", "perc.over", and "perc.under". "perc.over" and "perc.under" hyperparameters allow determining the minority and majority class ratios. The "k" parameter is the number of nearest neighbors used to create new minority class instances. Finding the best parameter value in the SMOTE algorithm is complicated. A hybridized version of genetic algorithm (GA) and support vector machine (SVM) approaches was suggested to address this issue for selecting SMOTE algorithm parameters. Three scenarios were created. Scenario 1 shows the evaluation of support vector machine SVM) results without using the SMOTE algorithm. Scenario 2 shows that the SVM was used after applying SMOTE algorithm without the GA algorithm. In the third scenario, the results were analyzed using the SVM algorithm after selecting the SMOTE algorithm's optimization method. This study used two imbalanced datasets, drug use and simulation data. After, the results were compared with model performance metrics. When the model performance metrics results are examined, the results of the third scenario reach the highest performance. As a result of this study, it has been shown that a genetic algorithm can optimize class ratios and k hyperparameters to improve the performance of the SMOTE algorithm.</p> </abstract>

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