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Estimating conditional density of missing values using deep Gaussian mixture model

Machine Learning 2020-11-20 v2

Abstract

We consider the problem of estimating the conditional probability distribution of missing values given the observed ones. We propose an approach, which combines the flexibility of deep neural networks with the simplicity of Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). Given an incomplete data point, our neural network returns the parameters of Gaussian distribution (in the form of Factor Analyzers model) representing the corresponding conditional density. We experimentally verify that our model provides better log-likelihood than conditional GMM trained in a typical way. Moreover, imputation obtained by replacing missing values using the mean vector of our model looks visually plausible.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02183,
  title  = {Estimating conditional density of missing values using deep Gaussian mixture model},
  author = {Marcin Przewięźlikowski and Marek Śmieja and Łukasz Struski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02183},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

A preliminary version of this paper appeared as an extended abstract at the ICML 2020 Workshop on The Art of Learning with Missing Values

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