用机器学习预测澳洲海蜇上岸,解决数据不靠谱和类别不平衡问题。
A Machine Learning Framework for Handling Unreliable Absence Label and Class Imbalance for Marine Stinger Beaching Prediction
- 采用合成负样本策略,应对虚假空值和类别重叠问题。
- 风向是影响海蜇上岸的关键因素,模型准确率显著提升。
- 适合做环境风险预测、数据质量差场景下的建模参考。
蓝水母(Physalia spp.)是形似水母的海洋刺胞类生物,在澳大利亚海滩出现会带来重大公共安全风险。本文基于悉尼东部海滩的蓝水母有/无数据,对比多层感知机、随机森林和XGBoost等机器学习模型,识别其上岸的影响因素。针对类别不平衡、类别重叠及不可靠的空值数据,采用SMOTE、随机下采样及排除负类的合成负样本方法进行数据增强。结果表明,SMOTE未能缓解类别重叠,而以存在数据为中心的方法有效处理了不平衡、重叠与模糊空值。风向(圆形变量)被确认为关键影响因素,与以往推断研究一致。在缺乏种群动态与生命周期信息的情况下,表现最佳的模型是结合合成负样本策略的随机森林。本研究有助于降低蓝水母对公众的风险,并为环境建模中处理不可靠负样本提供新思路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bluebottles (\textit{Physalia} spp.) are marine stingers resembling jellyfish, whose presence on Australian beaches poses a significant public risk due to their venomous nature. Understanding the environmental factors driving bluebottles ashore is crucial for mitigating their impact, and machine learning tools are to date relatively unexplored. We use bluebottle marine stinger presence/absence data from beaches in Eastern Sydney, Australia, and compare machine learning models (Multilayer Perceptron, Random Forest, and XGBoost) to identify factors influencing their presence. We address challenges such as class imbalance, class overlap, and unreliable absence data by employing data augmentation techniques, including the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE), Random Undersampling, and Synthetic Negative Approach that excludes the negative class. Our results show that SMOTE failed to resolve class overlap, but the presence-focused approach effectively handled imbalance, class overlap, and ambiguous absence data. The data attributes such as the wind direction, which is a circular variable, emerged as a key factor influencing bluebottle presence, confirming previous inference studies. However, in the absence of population dynamics, biological behaviours, and life cycles, the best predictive model appears to be Random Forests combined with Synthetic Negative Approach. This research contributes to mitigating the risks posed by bluebottles to beachgoers and provides insights into handling class overlap and unreliable negative class in environmental modelling.
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