The document discusses the issue of class imbalance in machine learning, where standard training methods struggle to generalize for underrepresented 'tail' classes. It presents a novel approach called Major-to-Minor (m2m) translation, which augments minority classes by leveraging information from majority samples while preventing overfitting. The m2m method optimizes translations using a pre-trained classifier and incorporates regularization techniques to improve classification performance on imbalanced datasets.