Imbalanced Datasets: When Your Model Gets 99% Accuracy by Being Completely Useless

📰 Dev.to · Sachin Kr. Rajput

Your fraud detection model is 99.9% accurate! Celebration time? No. It just predicts "not fraud" for everything. When 1 in 1,000 transactions is fraud, being lazy looks like genius. Here's how to fix models that cheat their way to high scores.

Published 21 Jan 2026
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