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Approach: They evaluate several group-robust optimization algorithms proposed to mitigate temporal concept drift and class imbalance in document classification.
Outcome: The proposed algorithms outperform sampling-based approaches to class imbalance and concept drift and lead to much better performance on minority classes.

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