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Missing values pose a persistent challenge in modern data science. Consequently, there is an ever-growing number of publications introducing new imputation methods in various fields. The present paper attempts to take a step back and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Jeffrey Näf , Erwan Scornet , Julie Josse

Missing data are ubiquitous in real world applications and, if not adequately handled, may lead to the loss of information and biased findings in downstream analysis. Particularly, high-dimensional incomplete data with a moderate sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Zongyu Dai , Zhiqi Bu , Qi Long

Missing data is a fundamental challenge in data science, significantly hindering analysis and decision-making across a wide range of disciplines, including healthcare, bioinformatics, social science, e-commerce, and industrial monitoring.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Jicong Fan

In many machine learning applications, we are faced with incomplete datasets. In the literature, missing data imputation techniques have been mostly concerned with filling missing values. However, the existence of missing values is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Kachuee , Kimmo Karkkainen , Orpaz Goldstein , Sajad Darabi , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Real-world datasets often have missing values associated with complex generative processes, where the cause of the missingness may not be fully observed. This is known as missing not at random (MNAR) data. However, many imputation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Chao Ma , Cheng Zhang

Imputation of missing data is a task that plays a vital role in a number of engineering and science applications. Often such missing data arise in experimental observations from limitations of sensors or post-processing transformation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ehsan Adeli , Jize Zhang , Alexandros A. Taflanidis

Multivariate time-series data are used in many classification and regression predictive tasks, and recurrent models have been widely used for such tasks. Most common recurrent models assume that time-series data elements are of equal length…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Mehak Gupta , Rahmatollah Beheshti

Increasing use of sensor data in intelligent transportation systems calls for accurate imputation algorithms that can enable reliable traffic management in the occasional absence of data. As one of the effective imputation approaches,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Amir Kazemi , Hadi Meidani

Many real-world datasets contain missing entries and mixed data types including categorical and ordered (e.g. continuous and ordinal) variables. Imputing the missing entries is necessary, since many data analysis pipelines require complete…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Alex Townsend , Madeleine Udell

Missing data is a crucial issue when applying machine learning algorithms to real-world datasets. Starting from the simple assumption that two batches extracted randomly from the same dataset should share the same distribution, we leverage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-02 Boris Muzellec , Julie Josse , Claire Boyer , Marco Cuturi

Datasets with missing values are very common in real world applications. GAIN, a recently proposed deep generative model for missing data imputation, has been proved to outperform many state-of-the-art methods. But GAIN only uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yufeng Wang , Dan Li , Xiang Li , Min Yang

In the last couple of decades, there has been major advancements in the domain of missing data imputation. The techniques in the domain include amongst others: Expectation Maximization, Neural Networks with Evolutionary Algorithms or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Collins Leke , Tshilidzi Marwala , Satyakama Paul

This paper tackles the problem of missing data imputation for noisy and non-Gaussian data. A classical imputation method, the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm for Gaussian mixture models, has shown interesting properties when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-23 Florian Mouret , Alexandre Hippert-Ferrer , Frédéric Pascal , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Learning performance data, such as correct or incorrect responses to questions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) is crucial for tracking and assessing the learners' progress and mastery of knowledge. However, the issue of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Liang Zhang , Mohammed Yeasin , Jionghao Lin , Felix Havugimana , Xiangen Hu

Classification of large multivariate time series with strong class imbalance is an important task in real-world applications. Standard methods of class weights, oversampling, or parametric data augmentation do not always yield significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-15 Grace Deng , Cuize Han , Tommaso Dreossi , Clarence Lee , David S. Matteson

Missing data is a common problem in medical research, and is commonly addressed using multiple imputation. Although traditional imputation methods allow for valid statistical inference when data are missing at random (MAR), their…

This paper presents methods which are aimed at finding approximations to missing data in a dataset by using optimization algorithms to optimize the network parameters after which prediction and classification tasks can be performed. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Collins Leke , Bhekisipho Twala , T. Marwala

Missing data theory deals with the statistical methods in the occurrence of missing data. Missing data occurs when some values are not stored or observed for variables of interest. However, most of the statistical theory assumes that data…

Class imbalance is a common problem in supervised learning and impedes the predictive performance of classification models. Popular countermeasures include oversampling the minority class. Standard methods like SMOTE rely on finding nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Justin Engelmann , Stefan Lessmann

In order to introduce deep learning technologies into anomaly detection, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are considered as important roles in the algorithm design and realistic applications. In terms of GANs, event probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rui She , Pingyi Fan