Handling Imbalanced Classes in supervised detection.

Updated May 5, 2026

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Use SMOTE, cost-sensitive learning, or Precision-Recall metrics[cite: 1].

Deep explanation

Since anomalies are rare, accuracy is a misleading metric. Use F1-score or AUPRC. Penalize the model more for missing an anomaly than for a false alarm[cite: 1].

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