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Missing data is a pervasive challenge spanning diverse data types, including tabular, sensor data, time-series, images and so on. Its origins are multifaceted, resulting in various missing mechanisms. Prior research in this field has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Pre-trained machine learning (ML) predictions have been increasingly used to complement incomplete data to enable downstream scientific inquiries, but their naive integration risks biased inferences. Recently, multiple methods have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-12 Xingran Chen , Tyler McCormick , Bhramar Mukherjee , Zhenke Wu

We investigate the problem of completing partial matrices to rank-one matrices in the standard simplex. The motivation for studying this problem comes from statistics: A lack of eligible completion can provide a falsification test for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Kaie Kubjas , Zvi Rosen

This paper tackles the problem of constructing a non-parametric predictor when the latent variables are given with incomplete information. The convenient predictor for this task is the random forest algorithm in conjunction to the so-called…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Irving Gómez-Méndez , Emilien Joly

The problem of finding the missing values of a matrix given a few of its entries, called matrix completion, has gathered a lot of attention in the recent years. Although the problem under the standard low rank assumption is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Vassilis Kalofolias , Xavier Bresson , Michael Bronstein , Pierre Vandergheynst

Matrix Completion is the problem of recovering an unknown real-valued low-rank matrix from a subsample of its entries. Important recent results show that the problem can be solved efficiently under the assumption that the unknown matrix is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Moritz Hardt , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Benjamin Weitz

We give a new framework for solving the fundamental problem of low-rank matrix completion, i.e., approximating a rank-$r$ matrix $\mathbf{M} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ (where $m \ge n$) from random observations. First, we provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jonathan A. Kelner , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

Despite the popularity of low-rank matrix completion, the majority of its theory has been developed under the assumption of random observation patterns, whereas very little is known about the practically relevant case of non-random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Manolis C. Tsakiris

Most recent results in matrix completion assume that the matrix under consideration is low-rank or that the columns are in a union of low-rank subspaces. In real-world settings, however, the linear structure underlying these models is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-31 Ravi Ganti , Laura Balzano , Rebecca Willett

A matrix completion problem is to recover the missing entries in a partially observed matrix. Most of the existing matrix completion methods assume a low rank structure of the underlying complete matrix. In this paper, we introduce an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Chencheng Cai , Rong Chen , Han Xiao

We consider the problem of exact low-rank matrix completion from a geometric viewpoint: given a partially filled matrix M, we keep the positions of specified and unspecified entries fixed, and study how the minimal completion rank depends…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Grigoriy Blekherman , Rainer Sinn

Matrix completion has become an extremely important technique as data scientists are routinely faced with large, incomplete datasets on which they wish to perform statistical inferences. We investigate how error introduced via matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Jamie Haddock , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell , Sneha Sambandam , Joy Song , Simon Sun

Completing a data matrix X has become an ubiquitous problem in modern data science, with applications in recommender systems, computer vision, and networks inference, to name a few. One typical assumption is that X is low-rank. A more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Daniel L. Pimentel-Alarcón

Missing data poses a significant challenge in data science, affecting decision-making processes and outcomes. Understanding what missing data is, how it occurs, and why it is crucial to handle it appropriately is paramount when working with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-09 Youran Zhou , Sunil Aryal , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek

Constant (naive) imputation is still widely used in practice as this is a first easy-to-use technique to deal with missing data. Yet, this simple method could be expected to induce a large bias for prediction purposes, as the imputed input…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Alexis Ayme , Claire Boyer , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Erwan Scornet

Given a set of incomplete observations, we study the nonparametric problem of testing whether data are Missing Completely At Random (MCAR). Our first contribution is to characterise precisely the set of alternatives that can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Thomas B Berrett , Richard J Samworth

Modern data analysis depends increasingly on estimating models via flexible high-dimensional or nonparametric machine learning methods, where the identification of structural parameters is often challenging and untestable. In linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Andrii Babii , Jean-Pierre Florens

Low-rank Matrix Completion (LRMC) describes the problem where we wish to recover missing entries of partially observed low-rank matrix. Most existing matrix completion work deals with sampling procedures that are independent of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rishhabh Naik , Nisarg Trivedi , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Laura Balzano

Missing data are prevalent and present daunting challenges in real data analysis. While there is a growing body of literature on fairness in analysis of fully observed data, there has been little theoretical work on investigating fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yiliang Zhang , Qi Long

In many applications, e.g., recommender systems and traffic monitoring, the data comes in the form of a matrix that is only partially observed and low rank. A fundamental data-analysis task for these datasets is matrix completion, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi