CAMO: A Class-Aware Minority-Optimized Ensemble for Robust Language Model Evaluation on Imbalanced Data

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Autori principali: Ehab, Mohamed, Hamdi, Ali, Shaban, Khaled
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author Ehab, Mohamed
Hamdi, Ali
Shaban, Khaled
author_facet Ehab, Mohamed
Hamdi, Ali
Shaban, Khaled
contents Real-world categorization is severely hampered by class imbalance because traditional ensembles favor majority classes, which lowers minority performance and overall F1-score. We provide a unique ensemble technique for imbalanced problems called CAMO (Class-Aware Minority-Optimized).Through a hierarchical procedure that incorporates vote distributions, confidence calibration, and inter model uncertainty, CAMO dynamically boosts underrepresented classes while preserving and amplifying minority forecasts. We verify CAMO on two highly unbalanced, domain-specific benchmarks: the DIAR-AI/Emotion dataset and the ternary BEA 2025 dataset. We benchmark against seven proven ensemble algorithms using eight different language models (three LLMs and five SLMs) under zero-shot and fine-tuned settings .With refined models, CAMO consistently earns the greatest strict macro F1-score, setting a new benchmark. Its benefit works in concert with model adaptation, showing that the best ensemble choice depends on model properties .This proves that CAMO is a reliable, domain-neutral framework for unbalanced categorization.
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spellingShingle CAMO: A Class-Aware Minority-Optimized Ensemble for Robust Language Model Evaluation on Imbalanced Data
Ehab, Mohamed
Hamdi, Ali
Shaban, Khaled
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Real-world categorization is severely hampered by class imbalance because traditional ensembles favor majority classes, which lowers minority performance and overall F1-score. We provide a unique ensemble technique for imbalanced problems called CAMO (Class-Aware Minority-Optimized).Through a hierarchical procedure that incorporates vote distributions, confidence calibration, and inter model uncertainty, CAMO dynamically boosts underrepresented classes while preserving and amplifying minority forecasts. We verify CAMO on two highly unbalanced, domain-specific benchmarks: the DIAR-AI/Emotion dataset and the ternary BEA 2025 dataset. We benchmark against seven proven ensemble algorithms using eight different language models (three LLMs and five SLMs) under zero-shot and fine-tuned settings .With refined models, CAMO consistently earns the greatest strict macro F1-score, setting a new benchmark. Its benefit works in concert with model adaptation, showing that the best ensemble choice depends on model properties .This proves that CAMO is a reliable, domain-neutral framework for unbalanced categorization.
title CAMO: A Class-Aware Minority-Optimized Ensemble for Robust Language Model Evaluation on Imbalanced Data
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07583