CTGAN-ENN: A tabular GAN-based Hybrid Sampling Method for Imbalanced and Overlapped Data in Customer Churn Prediction

Author:

Adiputra I Nyoman Mahayasa1,Wanchai Paweena1

Affiliation:

1. Khon Kaen University

Abstract

Abstract Class imbalance is one of many problems of customer churn datasets. One of the common problems is class overlap, where the data have a similar instance between classes. The prediction task of customer churn becomes more challenging when there is class overlap in the data training. In this research, we suggested a hybrid method based on tabular GANs, called CTGAN-ENN, to address class overlap and imbalanced data in datasets of customers that churn. We used five different customer churn datasets from an open platform. CTGAN is a tabular GAN-based oversampling to address class imbalance but has a class overlap problem. We combined CTGAN with the ENN under-sampling technique to overcome the class overlap. CTGAN-ENN reduced the number of class overlaps by each feature in all datasets. We investigated how effective CTGAN-ENN is in each machine learning technique. Based on our experiments, CTGAN-ENN achieved satisfactory results in KNN, GBM, and XGB machine learning performance for customer churn predictions. We compared CTGAN-ENN with common over-sampling and hybrid sampling methods, and CTGAN-ENN achieved outperform results compared with other sampling methods. We provide a time consumption algorithm between CTGAN and CTGAN-ENN. CTGAN-ENN achieved less time consumption than CTGAN. Our research work provides a new framework to handle customer churn prediction problems with several types of imbalanced datasets and can be useful in real-world data from customer churn prediction.

Publisher

Research Square Platform LLC

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