Abstract

Credit card fraud datasets are extremely imbalanced. This study systematically evaluates SMOTE, Borderline-SMOTE, ADASYN and SMOTE-Tomek together with random forest, XGBoost and LightGBM classifiers. Experiments were conducted with stratified cross-validation on a public dataset of 284,807 transactions. XGBoost combined with SMOTE-Tomek gave the best result with a PR-AUC of 0.88. Applying oversampling only within training folds was shown to be critical to prevent data leakage.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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How to Cite

Şahin, M., & Nurlanovna, A. (2024). Credit Card Fraud Detection on Imbalanced Datasets Using SMOTE Variants. International Journal of Science and Technology Research, 6(2), 27–45. https://doi.org/10.99999/ubtad.2024.6

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