SMOTE vs `scale_pos_weight` (class_weight) for XGBoost: Which Imbalance Fix Actually Wins?
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SMOTE vs scale_pos_weight (class_weight) for XGBoost: Which Imbalance Fix Actually Wins? Bhāi, if you trade NIFTY options with gradient-boosted trees, imbalance is not a "nice to have" footnote — it is the whole game. And the first fork in the road is this: do you rebalance the **data * with SMOTE,…
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SMOTE vs `scale_pos_weight` (class_weight) for XGBoost: Which Imbalance Fix Actually Wins?