Paper Info
Title
A MCDM-Based Evaluation Approach for Imbalanced Classification Methods in Financial Risk Prediction.
Abstract
Various classifiers have been proposed for financial risk prediction. The traditional practice of using a singular performance metric for classifier evaluation is not sufficient for imbalanced classification. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)-based approach to evaluate imbalanced classifiers in credit and bankruptcy risk prediction by considering multiple performance metrics simultaneously. An experimental study is designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of imbalanced classifiers using the proposed evaluation approach over seven financial imbalanced data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. The TOPSIS, a well-known MCDM method, was applied to rank three categories of imbalanced classifiers using six popular evaluation criteria. The rankings results indicate that: 1) the rankings generated by the TOPSIS, which combine the results of six evaluation criteria, provide a more reasonable evaluation of imbalanced classifiers over any single performance criterion; and 2) Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE)-based ensemble techniques outperform other groups of imbalanced learning approaches. Specifically, SMOTEBoost-C4.5, SMOTE-C4.5, and SMOTE-MLP were ranked as the top three classifiers based on their performances on the six criteria.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2924923
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Financial risk prediction,imbalanced classification,multiple criteria decision making (MCDM),algorithm evaluation
Financial risk,Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongming Song151.05
Yi Peng2130378.20