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In real-world applications, we can encounter situations when a well-trained model has to be used to predict from a damaged dataset. The damage caused by missing or corrupted values can be either on the level of individual instances or on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Magda Friedjungová , Daniel Vašata , Marcel Jiřina

The K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm is widely used for classification and regression; however, it suffers from limitations, including the equal treatment of all samples. We propose Information-Modified KNN (IM-KNN), a novel approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mohammad Ali Vahedifar , Azim Akhtarshenas , Mohammad Mohammadi Rafatpanah , Maryam Sabbaghian

Missing data has a ubiquitous presence in real-life applications of machine learning techniques. Imputation methods are algorithms conceived for restoring missing values in the data, based on other entries in the database. The choice of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Unai Garciarena , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu

Imputation of missing attribute values in medical datasets for extracting hidden knowledge from medical datasets is an interesting research topic of interest which is very challenging. One cannot eliminate missing values in medical records.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Yelipe UshaRani , P. Sammulal

Identification of charged particles in a multilayer detector by the energy loss technique may also be achieved by the use of a neural network. The performance of the network becomes worse when a large fraction of information is missing, for…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-14 S. Riggi , D. Riggi , F. Riggi

Missing data imputation (MDI) is a fundamental problem in many scientific disciplines. Popular methods for MDI use global statistics computed from the entire data set (e.g., the feature-wise medians), or build predictive models operating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

The challenge of handling missing data in time series is critical for maintaining the accuracy and reliability of machine learning (ML) models in applications like fifth generation mobile communication (5G) network management. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rania Farjallah , Bassant Selim , Brigitte Jaumard , Samr Ali , Georges Kaddoum

Missing value imputation is a challenging and well-researched topic in data mining. In this paper, we propose IFGAN, a missing value imputation algorithm based on Feature-specific Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). Our idea is intuitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Wei Qiu , Yangsibo Huang , Quanzheng Li

The problem of missing data has been persistent for a long time and poses a major obstacle in machine learning and statistical data analysis. Past works in this field have tried using various data imputation techniques to fill in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rishab Khincha , Utkarsh Sarawgi , Wazeer Zulfikar , Pattie Maes

Most datasets suffer from partial or complete missing values, which has downstream limitations on the available models on which to test the data and on any statistical inferences that can be made from the data. Several imputation techniques…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Adrienne Kline , Yuan Luo

In order to predict and fill in the gaps in categorical datasets, this research looked into the use of machine learning algorithms. The emphasis was on ensemble models constructed using the Error Correction Output Codes framework, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Muhammad Ishaq , Sana Zahir , Laila Iftikhar , Mohammad Farhad Bulbul , Seungmin Rho , Mi Young Lee

The problem of missing data, usually absent incurated and competition-standard datasets, is an unfortunate reality for most machine learning models used in industry applications. Recent work has focused on understanding the nature and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Spyridon Mouselinos , Kyriakos Polymenakos , Antonis Nikitakis , Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos

Learner performance data collected by Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), such as responses to questions, is essential for modeling and predicting learners' knowledge states. However, missing responses due to skips or incomplete attempts…

This paper introduces a novel paradigm to impute missing data that combines a decision tree with an auto-associative neural network (AANN) based model and a principal component analysis-neural network (PCA-NN) based model. For each model,…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-12 George Ssali , Tshilidzi Marwala

Many real-world clustering problems are plagued by incomplete data characterized by missing or absent features for some or all of the data instances. Traditional clustering methods cannot be directly applied to such data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shounak Datta , Supritam Bhattacharjee , Swagatam Das

Classifying samples in incomplete datasets is a common aim for machine learning practitioners, but is non-trivial. Missing data is found in most real-world datasets and these missing values are typically imputed using established methods,…

We propose Conditional Imputation GAN, an extended missing data imputation method based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The motivating use case is learning-to-rank, the cornerstone of modern search, recommendation system, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-11 Grace Deng , Cuize Han , David S. Matteson

Advancements in data collection techniques and the heterogeneity of data resources can yield high percentages of missing observations on variables, such as block-wise missing data. Under missing-data scenarios, traditional methods such as…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-17 Wei Lan , Xuerong Chen , Tao Zou , Chih-Ling Tsai

Missing data arises when certain values are not recorded or observed for variables of interest. However, most of the statistical theory assume complete data availability. To address incomplete databases, one approach is to fill the gaps…

The tremendous applications of human activity recognition are surging its span from health monitoring systems to virtual reality applications. Thus, the automatic recognition of daily life activities has become significant for numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Ivan Miguel Pires , Faisal Hussain , Nuno M. Garcia , Eftim Zdravevski