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Handling Imbalanced Fraud Labels

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You are training a binary classifier where the positive class is rare, as is common in fraud detection. A model with high accuracy can still be useless if it misses most true positives or floods investigators with false alarms.

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How do you handle highly imbalanced datasets, which are common in insurance fraud detection?