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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.

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.

In many application settings, the data have missing entries which make analysis challenging. An abundant literature addresses missing values in an inferential framework: estimating parameters and their variance from incomplete tables. Here, we consider supervised-learning settings: predicting a target when missing valu…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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.

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 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 ↗

Missing values challenge data analysis because many supervised and unsupervised learning methods cannot be applied directly to incomplete data. Matrix completion based on low-rank assumptions are very powerful solution for dealing with missing values. However, existing methods do not consider the case of informative mi…

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

The causes underlying unfair decision making are complex, being internalised in different ways by decision makers, other actors dealing with data and models, and ultimately by the individuals being affected by these decisions. One frequent manifestation of all these latent causes arises in the form of missing values: p…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

We consider the problem of recovering an expert's reward function with inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) when there are missing/incomplete state-action pairs or observations in the demonstrated trajectories. This issue of missing trajectory data or information occurs in many situations, e.g., GPS signals from vehicl…

2019-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning portfolios perform well with simple imputation of missing data.

problem Handling missing values in machine learning portfolios constructed from cross-sectional return predictors.
method Simple imputation with cross-sectional means compared to rigorous expectation-maximization methods.
result Simple imputation performs well due to the structure of missing data.

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.

GPCCA integrates multi-modal data with missing values, improving clustering accuracy.

problem Integrating and analyzing multi-modal data with missing values and partial observations.
method Generalized Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis (GPCCA) for unsupervised multi-modal data integration and dimensionality reduction.
result GPCCA outperforms existing methods in capturing essential patterns across modalities and provides robust low-dimensional embeddings.