While performing the SMOTE for balancing the class data, what should be the proportion of both class? For instance, if we have 100 instances, what (%) should be the Yes class and what should be the No class?
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1$\begingroup$ There is no rule of thumb to determine that parameter. Only thing to remember is that SMOTE creates synthetic observations so over use might be detrimental for the model. I would suggest trying various combinations and checking which works for you better. $\endgroup$– Aman MathurCommented Jul 3, 2019 at 0:13
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$\begingroup$ @AmanMathur, thanks a lot $\endgroup$– KhanCommented Jul 3, 2019 at 8:06
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As I have mentioned in the comment, there is not rule of thumb. One has to do a lot experimentation.
Based on how much data you have, bringing minority class to be be equal (50-50) to the majority class can be misleading the model.
You can also try ADASYN during your experimentation.
ADASYN is a improved version of SMOTE. What it does is same as SMOTE just with a minor improvement. After creating those sample it adds a random small values to the points thus making it more realistic. In other words instead of all the sample being linearly correlated to the parent they have a little more variance in them i.e they are bit scattered.
You can read about the implementation here
