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most citedDo we need rebalancing strategies? A theoretical and empirical study around SMOTE and its variants

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stat.ML2026

Weighting-Based Strategies for Classification: Analysis and Local Peak Dynamics with CART Trees

Abdoulaye Sakho, Emmanuel Malherbe, Erwan Scornet

Tabular learning tasks often suffer from class imbalance, which is often addressed via weighting-based strategies. In this work, we compare the naive approach (unweighted) with the…

cs.LG2026

Better Capturing Interactions Between Products in~Retail: Revisited Negative Sampling for~Basket Choice Modeling

Jules Désir, Vincent Auriau, Martin Možina +1

Brick-and-mortar retailers face many different challenges that involve understanding thoroughly its products catalog and customer preferences. In particular, assortment optimizatio…

cs.AI2026

Weak Segmentation-Guided GAN for~Realistic Color Edition

Vincent Auriau, Emmanuel Malherbe, Matthieu Perrot

Editing the color of images in a realistic way finds many applications such as changing the perception of an image, data augmentation or film post processing. The design of an auto…

math.ST2026

OT-FairBoost: Optimal Transport-Guided Gradient Boosting for Fairness Regularization on Tabular Data

Veronika Shilova, Abdoulaye Sakho, Younes Boumoussou +3

Although neural-based machine learning models have received a lot of attention recently, tree-based models such as gradient boosting are competitive for tabular data and therefore…

cs.CV2026

Discovering Geometric Biases in 3D Face Reconstruction: A Curvature-Aware Spectral Framework for Fairness Evaluation

Veronika Shilova, Emmanuel Malherbe, Giovanni Palma +3

3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) remain the standard parametric shape priors for many state-of-the-art 3D face reconstruction algorithms. However, as these models are derived from a fin…

cs.AI2026

Identifying two piecewise linear additive value functions from anonymous preference information

Vincent Auriau, Khaled Belahcene, Emmanuel Malherbe +2

Eliciting a preference model involves asking a person, named decision-maker, a series of questions. We assume that these preferences can be represented by an additive value functio…

cs.CL2025

Learned Hallucination Detection in Black-Box LLMs using Token-level Entropy Production Rate

Charles Moslonka, Hicham Randrianarivo, Arthur Garnier +1

Hallucinations in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs for Question Answering (QA) tasks can critically undermine their real-world reliability. This paper introduces a methodology fo…

cs.CV2025

Fairness-Aware Grouping for Continuous Sensitive Variables: Application for Debiasing Face Analysis with respect to Skin Tone

Veronika Shilova, Emmanuel Malherbe, Giovanni Palma +2

Within a legal framework, fairness in datasets and models is typically assessed by dividing observations into predefined groups and then computing fairness measures (e.g., Disparat…

cs.LG2025

Harnessing Mixed Features for Imbalance Data Oversampling: Application to Bank Customers Scoring

Abdoulaye Sakho, Emmanuel Malherbe, Carl-Erik Gauthier +1

This study investigates rare event detection on tabular data within binary classification. Standard techniques to handle class imbalance include SMOTE, which generates synthetic sa…

stat.ML2024★ 4 cited

Do we need rebalancing strategies? A theoretical and empirical study around SMOTE and its variants

Abdoulaye Sakho, Emmanuel Malherbe, Erwan Scornet

Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) is a common rebalancing strategy for handling imbalanced tabular data sets. However, few works analyze SMOTE theoretically. In thi…