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Handle Highly Imbalanced Classification

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Problem

You are working on a supervised classification problem where the positive class is rare, and a standard accuracy score would hide most of the mistakes. The team needs a model that can find the minority class without flooding operations with false alarms.

Question

How would you handle a highly imbalanced dataset?