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48 results for Imputation

A new imputation method MissARF uses adversarial random forests for fast and accurate missing value imputation.

problem Handling missing values in biostatistical analyses.
method Adversarial Random Forests (ARF) for density estimation and data synthesis.
result MissARF performs comparably to state-of-the-art methods in imputation quality and runtime.

CSDI improves time series imputation by 40-65% over existing methods.

problem Imputing missing values in time series data.
method Conditional Score-based Diffusion models conditioned on observed data.
result CSDI improves by 40-65% over existing probabilistic imputation methods on popular metrics.

MTSCI uses diffusion models to impute multivariate time series data with consistency.

problem Imputation of missing values in multivariate time series data.
method MTSCI employs a contrastive complementary mask and mixup mechanism to ensure intra-consistency and inter-consistency.
result MTSCI achieves state-of-the-art performance on multivariate time series imputation tasks.

Study examines parallel computing strategies for faster imputation of missing data.

problem Time-consuming iterative imputation methods for large datasets.
method Variable-wise and model-wise distributed parallel computing strategies in missForest.
result Variable-wise distributed strategy introduces additional biases in imputation results.

Study compares imputation methods' effects on IML confidence intervals.

problem Missing data impacts IML interpretation and confidence intervals.
method Compared single vs multiple imputation methods on IML confidence intervals.
result Multiple imputation provides closer coverage to nominal than single imputation.

The paper compares theoretical and empirical performance of imputation methods for missing data.

problem Missing data in real-world datasets.
method Contrast of theoretical and empirical imputation methods for prediction.
result Mean-imputation is asymptotically optimal for prediction, while mode-imputation is sub-optimal.

New criteria improve imputation model selection using MOO.

problem Selecting the best imputation model using prediction accuracy metrics.
method Introduced three modified MOO criteria based on rank transformation, energy distance, and likelihood principle.
result Demonstrated how MOO is related to missing-at-random assumption and derived statistical and computational learning theories.

Improved time series classification with imputed data using label-guided forest-based methods.

problem Missing data in time series data.
method Label-guided imputation using forest-based proximity measures.
result Imputation leads to higher classification accuracies, even with imputed values differing from true values.

Missing data imputation can help improve the performance of prediction models in situations where missing data hide useful information. This paper compares methods for imputing missing categorical data for supervised classification tasks. We experiment on two machine learning benchmark datasets with missing categorical…

2016-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Kernel ridge regression imputation with consistent variance estimation for handling missing data.

problem Handling missing data in statistical analysis.
method Kernel ridge regression imputation combined with entropy method for variance estimation.
result Root-n consistency of the imputation estimator in a Sobolev space setting.

Paper introduces metrics to evaluate missing data imputation without ground truth.

problem Handling missing data in time series without ground truth.
method Introduces Wasserstein distance (WD) and Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) as metrics to evaluate imputation quality.
result WD and JSD are effective metrics for assessing missing data imputation quality.

This work proposes a non-iterative strategy for missing value imputations which is guided by similarity between observations, but instead of explicitly determining distances or nearest neighbors, it assigns observations to overlapping buckets through recursive semi-random hyperplane cuts, in which weighted averages are…

2019-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes methods to handle missing data in online RL, improving efficiency and uncertainty capture.

problem Missing data in online RL poses challenges due to the need to impute and act at each time step.
method Proposes fully online imputation ensembles and multiple imputation pathways to balance uncertainty and efficiency.
result Preliminary evidence suggests multiple imputation pathways can be a useful framework for simple and efficient online missing data RL methods.

New online imputation method for mixed data improves accuracy and speed.

problem Missing value imputation in online settings for mixed data types.
method Online Gaussian copula model for imputation and change point detection.
result The model improves accuracy and speed, especially on large datasets.

LSSDM improves imputation of multivariate time series data.

problem Imputation of multivariate time series data without labels.
method LSSDM projects observed data into latent space, reconstructs missing values without labels, and uses a conditional diffusion model for precise imputation.
result LSSDM achieves superior imputation performance and uncertainty analysis.

RISA improves VFL by using imputed samples with low uncertainty.

problem Limited overlapping samples constrain VFL performance.
method Imputing non-overlapping samples and using evidence theory to select reliable imputed samples.
result Significant performance gains achieved, especially with limited overlapping samples.

Imputation with missing-indicators improves machine learning performance, especially for categorical attributes.

problem Missing values in datasets can be lost through imputation, potentially reducing model performance.
method Combines missing-indicator approach with imputation strategies on real datasets.
result Missing-indicators generally increase classification performance, especially for categorical attributes.

Imputation of missing data is a common application in various classification problems where the feature training matrix has missingness. A widely used solution to this imputation problem is based on the lazy learning technique, kk-nearest neighbor (kNN) approach. However, most of the previous work on missing data does…

2020-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a novel method to reduce mutual information for missing data imputation.

problem Missing data imputation in datasets with missingness patterns.
method Iterative minimization of KL divergence between imputed data and missingness mask, using rectified flow training objective.
result The proposed method achieves superior imputation performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Study finds unsupervised imputation before cross-validation can reduce computational costs without significantly degrading model performance.

problem High computational costs in pipeline modeling algorithms with imputation steps.
method Empirical assessment of unsupervised imputation before vs during cross-validation.
result Reduced variance of imputation before cross-validation leads to lower overall root mean squared error.

This paper improves VAE-based imputation of FX implied volatilities, reducing errors and handling uncertainty.

problem Imputing missing implied volatilities for FX options.
method Modified VAE architecture and handling uncertainty.
result Significant performance improvements, nearly halving error in low missingness regimes.

A new imputation method estimates missing values by matching observed marginals from masked data.

problem Missing values in data undermine statistical and machine learning analysis.
method Estimates a distribution from masked observations using positive semi-definite kernel density estimation.
result The method yields both single and multiple imputations from the same fitted density, with statistical consistency and fast adaptive excess risk.

Double autoencoder Ae2IAe^2I improves missing value imputation in recommender systems.

problem Imputing missing values in tables using row-row and column-column relationships.
method Simultaneously uses row-row and column-column relationships through a double autoencoder.
result Ae2IAe^2I outperforms state-of-the-art models in recommender systems.

Imputation-free method learns tabular data with missing values using transformer.

problem Machine learning on tabular data with missing values often leads to unreliable outcomes due to synthetic imputation.
method Incremental attention learning (IFIAL) using transformer with attention masks.
result IFIAL outperforms state-of-the-art methods in 17 diverse tabular data sets.

Deep learning models outperform MICE in large survey imputation but with hyperparameter tuning.

problem Comparing deep learning and MICE for missing data imputation in large surveys.
method Extensive simulation studies comparing four machine learning-based MI methods: MICE with classification trees, MICE with random forests, generative adversarial imputation networks, and multiple imputation using denoising autoencoders.
result MICE with classification trees consistently outperforms deep learning methods in terms of bias, mean squared error, and coverage.

Bayesian imputation optimizes bias-variance trade-off in time-series data.

problem Look-ahead bias in imputation of missing time-series data.
method Bayesian consensus posterior that fuses multiple posteriors to optimize bias and variance trade-off.
result Benefit of imputation for portfolio allocation with missing returns demonstrated.