RUSBoost

RUSBoost is a boosting-based sampling algorithm that handles class imbalance in class labeled data.

This code implements RUSBoost. RUSBoost is an algorithm to handle class imbalance problem in data with discrete class labels. It uses a combination of RUS (random under-sampling) and the standard boosting procedure AdaBoost, to better model the minority class by removing majority class samples. It is very similar to SMOTEBoost, which is another algorithm that combines boosting and
data sampling, but claims to achieves the goal with random under-sampling (RUS)
of majority class examples. This method results in a simpler algorithm with faster model training time.

The current implementation of RUSBoost has been independently done by the author
for the purpose of research. In order to enable the users use a lot of different
weak learners for boosting, an interface is created with Weka API. Currently, four Weka algortihms could be used as weak learner: J48, SMO, IBk, Logistic. It uses 10 boosting iterations and achieves a class imbalance ratio of 35:65 (minority:majority) at each boosting iteration by removing the majority class
samples.

For more detail on the theoretical description of the algorithm please refer to the following paper:
C. Seiffert, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, J. Van Hulse and A. Napolitano, "RUSBoost:
A Hybrid Approach to Alleviating Class Imbalance, IEEE Transaction on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Human, Vol.40(1), January 2010.