IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 2: April 2026

The effects of data imbalance on fraud detection model accuracy

Ruslan, Rusma Anieza (Unknown)
Arbaiy, Nureize (Unknown)
Lin, Pei-Chun (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2026

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) model performance is often assessed by accuracy, but the quality and balance of data also play crucial roles. Imbalanced datasets, where the minority class has fewer samples than the majority class, can lead to biased predictions favoring the majority class. This study addresses the issue of class imbalance through resampling techniques, including random undersampling (RUS) and random oversampling (ROS), specifically applied to a fraud detection dataset. We classify the resampled datasets using random forest (RF) and gradient boosting (GB) models. Our findings indicate that the RF model, when combined with ROS, achieves an accuracy of 97.4%, surpassing the 96.1% accuracy of the GB model with RUS. This approach demonstrates the importance of addressing class imbalance to improve prediction accuracy in ML.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...