GK Question

technology hard mcq

Which technique handles class imbalance by generating synthetic minority samples?

  1. Undersampling
  2. Oversampling
  3. SMOTE
  4. Class Weighting

Answer: SMOTE

SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique) creates synthetic examples by interpolating between minority class neighbors. Improves classifier performance on imbalanced data vs simple oversampling.

Topic Data Science
Exam Relevance Banking, SSC JE, UPSC