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48 results for Missing Information

Paper tackles informative labels in semi-supervised learning, proposing debiasing methods.

problem Informative labels can bias semi-supervised learning models, especially when some classes are more likely to be labeled.
method Estimates missing-data mechanism and uses inverse propensity weighting to debias SSL algorithms.
result Proposed methods improve SSL performance, demonstrated on various datasets including medical ones.

Enhances TCK for missing data and incomplete labels in time series.

problem Missing data and incomplete labels in time series analysis.
method Ensemble learning with Bayesian mixture models, representation of missing patterns, semi-supervised learning.
result Improved accuracy in similarity learning for time series with missing and incomplete labels.

End-to-end model for time series classification with missing data.

problem Time series classification with missing data.
method End-to-end neural network that unifies imputation and representation learning.
result Proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for incomplete time series classification.

Consistent supervised learning with missing values is possible using imputation or specialized models.

problem Predicting with missing values in both training and testing data.
method Two approaches: imputing with a constant and using a predictor for complete observations through multiple imputation. Decision trees can handle missing values naturally.
result Imputing with a constant can be consistent when missing values are not informative.

Proposes a method to select features for subgroup datasets with systematic missing data.

problem Feature selection for datasets with subgroup structure and systematic missing data.
method Develops a heterogeneous graph neural network to propagate information between feature-subgroup-target variable connections.
result Demonstrates improved feature selection performance and scalability.

Proposes a Latent Block Model for analyzing missing data.

problem Missing data can lead to misleading conclusions if not properly accounted for.
method Co-clustering model based on Latent Block Model, with variational EM algorithm for inference and model selection criterion.
result The proposed model reveals meaningful groups and insights from non-voters in French Parliament voting records.

WGNN learns graph representations from incomplete attribute data.

problem Missing node attributes in graphs.
method WGNN learns node representations from decomposed attribute matrices and uses Wasserstein space for message passing.
result WGNN outperforms existing methods in node classification tasks with missing attribute data.

New model handles missing data effectively in autoregressive models.

problem Handling missing data in autoregressive models.
method Reinterpret existing models through missing data lens, introduce principled framework for incomplete datasets, active information acquisition.
result MO-ARM consistently outperforms imputation baselines across real-world benchmarks.

New method uses information bottleneck to estimate causal effects from missing data.

problem Estimating causal effects from high-dimensional observational data with missing covariates.
method Uses information bottleneck to compress covariates and transfer relevant information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in causal inference benchmarks and real applications.

Trinary decision tree improves handling of missing data in machine learning.

problem Improving accuracy in decision tree algorithms when dealing with missing data.
method Introduces Trinary decision tree, which does not assume missing values contain information about the response.
result Trinary decision tree outperforms other algorithms in Missing Completely at Random settings, especially when data is only missing out-of-sample.

New framework predicts time series with missing values without imputation.

problem Predicting time series with missing values, especially when there's no ground truth for missing data.
method CRIB framework, combining attention mechanism and consistency regularization.
result CRIB framework predicts accurately even under high missing rates.

CVIB uses information theory to learn counterfactuals from MNAR data without RCTs.

problem Debiasing learning from missing-not-at-random (MNAR) data in recommendation systems.
method CVIB, a variational information bottleneck, separates task-aware mutual information into factual and counterfactual parts.
result CVIB significantly enhances both shallow and deep models in recommendation systems.

New model learns from missing modalities and class labels.

problem Conflict between learning joint representations and modalities in multi-modal data.
method Introduces a novel conditional multi-modal discriminative model using an informative prior distribution and a likelihood-free objective function.
result Our model achieves state-of-the-art results in downstream classification, acoustic inversion, and image and annotation generation.

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.

New algorithms handle missing data to improve fairness in machine learning.

problem Missing values in data can lead to unfair outcomes in machine learning models.
method Developed scalable and adaptive algorithms to handle missing values while preserving predictive information.
result Our adaptive algorithms consistently achieve higher fairness and accuracy than standard impute-then-classify methods.

Paper proposes method to recover quantized data with missing info.

problem Recovering quantized data with missing information.
method Regularized convex cost function with Bi-factorization and Augmented Lagrangian Method.
result The method finds global minimizer of the cost function.

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.

A new criterion HBIC improves model selection for factor analysis with missing data.

problem Model selection for factor analysis with incomplete data.
method Proposes a novel criterion HBIC that uses actual observed information in the penalty term.
result HBIC is more accurate than BIC when missing data rates are high.

Semi-supervised learning benefits from informative missing labels, improving classifier performance.

problem Missing labels in semi-supervised learning can be informative, improving classifier performance.
method Formulates missingness as a mixture model problem and uses EM algorithm for fitting.
result Modelling informative missingness can yield a classifier with smaller expected error than a completely labelled sample.

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 ↗

The paper addresses fairness issues in machine learning by considering missing data, finding that missing values often lead to fairer outcomes.

problem Fairness issues in machine learning, especially due to missing values.
method Analysis of missing data sources and bias, study of fairness trade-offs, recommended procedures.
result Rows with missing values are often fairer than the rest, suggesting they should not be discarded.

A GAN variant synthesizes missing MRI sequences from available ones.

problem Missing MRI sequences due to various constraints.
method Multi-modal Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that combines multiple available sequences to synthesize missing ones.
result The proposed GAN method outperforms competing approaches in synthesizing missing MRI sequences.

A model combines GRU-D for missing data and Neural ODEs for time series continuity.

problem Challenges of informative missingness in multivariate time series data.
method Combines GRU-D for missing data imputation and Neural ODEs for temporal continuity.
result Demonstrates improved performance on a time series classification task.

Bayes predictor remains robust to ignorable missingness shifts.

problem Challenges in prediction with missing covariates and shifts in missingness reasons.
method Bayesian approach and different prediction methods.
result Bayes predictor remains unchanged by ignorable shifts, but robust prediction requires disregarding missingness for non-ignorable shifts.

Proposes methods to correct bias and missing data in regression models.

problem Nonignorable selection bias and missing response in regression models.
method Imputation-based and importance weighted regression methods, including repeated regression and doubly robust combination.
result Repeated regression can effectively correct bias and outperforms weighted regression in extrapolation.

Proposes a new loss function to avoid treating missing information as positive or negative feedback.

problem Handling missing information in implicit feedback datasets for recommender systems.
method Introduces the Missing Information Loss (MIL) function and applies it to Matrix Factorization and Denoising Autoencoder.
result MIL achieves competitive performance in ranking-aware metrics and reduces the recommendation of popular items.

A deep generative model improves imputation of MNAR data by treating missing and complete data equally.

problem Missing Not At Random (MNAR) data in analysis.
method A generative model-specific joint probability decomposition method (conjunction model) and a deep generative imputation model (GNR).
result GNR surpasses state-of-the-art MNAR baselines with significant margins in RMSE and better mask reconstruction.

Develops experimental design for discovering missing physics in bioreactors.

problem Discovering missing physics in incomplete model structures of process systems.
method Combines universal differential equations and symbolic regression with sequential experimental design.
result Successfully recovered true model structure of a bioreactor using machine learning techniques.

We present an automatic classification method for astronomical catalogs with missing data. We use Bayesian networks, a probabilistic graphical model, that allows us to perform inference to pre- dict missing values given observed data and dependency relationships between variables. To learn a Bayesian network from incom…

2013-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning for missing data with flexible modelling.

problem Missing data with missingness dependent on the missing values.
method Deep latent variable models with a neural network for missingness pattern modeling, importance-weighted variational inference, and stochastic gradients.
result Explicitly modelling missingness improves inference on various data sets.