Imbalance in scikit-learn

Question

I\'m using scikit-learn in my Python program in order to perform some machine-learning operations. The problem is that my data-set has severe imbalance issues.

Is anyone

Answer 1

SMOTE is not a builtin in scikit-learn, but there are implementations available online nevertheless.

Edit: The discussion with a SMOTE implementation on GMane that I originally linked to, appears to be no longer available. The code is preserved here.

The newer answer below, by @nos, is also quite good.