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Missing value imputation is a crucial preprocessing step for many machine learning problems. However, it is often considered as a separate subtask from downstream applications such as classification, regression, or clustering, and thus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Adam Catto , Nan Jia , Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi , Anita Raja

The issue of missing data poses a great challenge on boosting performance and application of deep learning models in the {\em Knowledge Tracing} (KT) problem. However, there has been the lack of understanding on the issue in the literature.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jia Tracy Shen , Dongwon Lee

Multiple modalities often co-occur when describing natural phenomena. Learning a joint representation of these modalities should yield deeper and more useful representations. Previous generative approaches to multi-modal input either do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

Missing data represents a fundamental challenge in machine learning applications, often reducing model performance and reliability. This problem is particularly acute in fields like bioinformatics and clinical machine learning, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Fatemeh Azad , Zoran Bosnić , Matjaž Kukar

Real world datasets often contain entries with missing elements e.g. in a medical dataset, a patient is unlikely to have taken all possible diagnostic tests. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are popular generative models often used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mark Collier , Alfredo Nazabal , Christopher K. I. Williams

A wide range of systems exhibit high dimensional incomplete data. Accurate estimation of the missing data is often desired, and is crucial for many downstream analyses. Many state-of-the-art recovery methods involve supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Adrian V. Dalca , John Guttag , Mert R. Sabuncu

Missing value imputation is a fundamental challenge in machine intelligence, heavily dependent on data completeness. Current imputation methods often handle numerical and categorical attributes independently, overlooking critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiaopeng Luo , Zexi Tan , Zhuowei Wang

Data-driven fault diagnostics of safety-critical systems often faces the challenge of a complete lack of labeled data associated with faulty system conditions (i.e., fault types) at training time. Since an unknown number and nature of fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Manuel Arias Chao , Bryan T. Adey , Olga Fink

Multiple imputation (MI) is a popular approach for dealing with missing data arising from non-response in sample surveys. Multiple imputation by chained equations (MICE) is one of the most widely used MI algorithms for multivariate data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhenhua Wang , Olanrewaju Akande , Jason Poulos , Fan Li

Identifying genetic regulators of DNA methylation (mQTLs) with multivariate models enhances statistical power, but is challenged by missing data from bisulfite sequencing. Standard imputation-based methods can introduce bias, limiting…

Missing values in tabular data restrict the use and performance of machine learning, requiring the imputation of missing values. The most popular imputation algorithm is arguably multiple imputations using chains of equations (MICE), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Manar D Samad , Sakib Abrar , Norou Diawara

As attention to recorded data grows in the realm of automotive testing and manual evaluation reaches its limits, there is a growing need for automatic online anomaly detection. This real-world data is complex in many ways and requires the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lucas Correia , Jan-Christoph Goos , Philipp Klein , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

Objective: The proper handling of missing values is critical to delivering reliable estimates and decisions, especially in high-stakes fields such as clinical research. The increasing diversity and complexity of data have led many…

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jason Chou

Missing data imputation remains a fundamental challenge in modern data science, especially when uncertainty quantification is essential. In this work, we propose MissBGM, an AI-powered missing data imputation method via Bayesian generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Qiao Liu

In real world clinical environments, training and applying deep learning models on multi-modal medical imaging data often struggles with partially incomplete data. Standard approaches either discard missing samples, require imputation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Christoph Fürböck , Paul Weiser , Branko Mitic , Philipp Seeböck , Thomas Helbich , Georg Langs

Deep learning, even if it is very successful nowadays, traditionally needs very large amounts of labeled data to perform excellent on the classification task. In an attempt to solve this problem, the one-shot learning paradigm, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu

Building energy prediction and management has become increasingly important in recent decades, driven by the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the availability of more energy data. However, energy data is often collected from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chun Fu , Matias Quintana , Zoltan Nagy , Clayton Miller

Data imputation, the process of filling in missing feature elements for incomplete data sets, plays a crucial role in data-driven learning. A fundamental belief is that data imputation is helpful for learning performance, and it follows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ruikai Yang , Fan He , Mingzhen He , Kaijie Wang , Xiaolin Huang

Widely used methods for analyzing missing data can be biased in small samples. To understand these biases, we evaluate in detail the situation where a small univariate normal sample, with values missing at random, is analyzed using either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Paul T. von Hippel