Gold panning from the mess: Rare category exploration, exposition, representation, and interpretation

Dawei Zhou, Jingrui He

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2 Scopus citations

Abstract

In contrast to the massive volume of data, it is often the rare categories that are of great importance in many high impact domains, ranging from financial fraud detection in online transaction networks to emerging trend detection in social networks, from spam image detection in social media to rare disease diagnosis in the medical decision support system. The unique challenges of rare category analysis include: (1) the highly-skewed class-membership distribution; (2) the non-separability nature of the rare categories from the majority classes; (3) the data and task heterogeneity, e.g., the multi-modal representation of examples, and the analysis of similar rare categories across multiple related tasks. This tutorial aims to provide a concise review of state-of-the-art techniques on complex rare category analysis, where the majority classes have a smooth distribution, while the minority classes exhibit a compactness property in the feature space or subspace. In particular, we start with the context, problem definition and unique challenges of complex rare category analysis; then we present a comprehensive overview of recent advances that are designed for this problem setting, from rare category exploration without any label information to the exposition step that characterizes rare examples with a compact representation, from representing rare patterns in a salient embedding space to interpreting the prediction results and providing relevant clues for the end users' interpretation; at last, we will discuss the potential challenges and shed light on the future directions of complex rare category analysis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2019 - Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages3213-3214
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362016
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 25 2019
Event25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019 - Anchorage, United States
Duration: Aug 4 2019Aug 8 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage
Period8/4/198/8/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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