Imbalance Learning for Variable Star Classification

@article{Hosenie2020ImbalanceLF,
  title={Imbalance Learning for Variable Star Classification},
  author={Zafiirah Hosenie and R. J. Lyon and Ben W. Stappers and Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo and Vanessa McBride},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2002.12386}
}
The accurate automated classification of variable stars into their respective sub-types is difficult. Machine learning based solutions often fall foul of the imbalanced learning problem, which causes poor generalisation performance in practice, especially on rare variable star sub-types. In previous work, we attempted to overcome such deficiencies via the development of a hierarchical machine learning classifier. This 'algorithm-level' approach to tackling imbalance, yielded promising results… 
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