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Handling Imbalanced Classification Data

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You are working on a classification problem where one class is much rarer than the other, and the team is concerned that standard evaluation may hide poor minority class performance. You need to explain how you would evaluate and handle this kind of dataset during model development.

Question

How do you handle imbalanced datasets in machine learning?