imbalanced-learn-extra: A Python Package for Novel Oversampling Algorithms
By: Georgios Douzas and Fernando Bacao
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.459 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 26, 2023
Accepted on: Nov 24, 2025
Published on: Jan 19, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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