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Order-Agnostic autoregressive models have demonstrated strong performance in deep generative modeling, yet their use in settings with incomplete data remains largely unexplored. In this work, we reinterpret them through the lens of missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ignacio Peis , Pablo M. Olmos , Jes Frellsen

Gaussian Mixture models (GMMs) are a powerful tool for clustering, classification and density estimation when clustering structures are embedded in the data. The presence of missing values can largely impact the GMMs estimation process,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Alessio Serafini , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Luca Scrucca

Multivariate time series is a very active topic in the research community and many machine learning tasks are being used in order to extract information from this type of data. However, in real-world problems data has missing values, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Samuel Arcadinho , Paulo Mateus

Case-cohort studies are conducted within cohort studies, wherein collection of exposure data is limited to a subset of the cohort, leading to a large proportion of missing data by design. Standard analysis uses inverse probability weighting…

The recent surge of pervasive devices that generate dynamic data streams has underscored the necessity for learning systems to adapt continually to data distributional shifts. To tackle this challenge, the research community has put forth a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jacopo Bonato , Francesco Pelosin , Luigi Sabetta , Alessandro Nicolosi

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…

We propose a copula based method to handle missing values in multivariate data of mixed types in multilevel data sets. Building upon the extended rank likelihood of \cite{hoff2007extending} and the multinomial probit model, our model is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-28 Jiali Wang , Bronwyn Loong , Anton H. Westveld , Alan H. Welsh

Modern multi-modal and multi-site data frequently suffer from blockwise missingness, where subsets of features are missing for groups of individuals, creating complex patterns that challenge standard inference methods. Existing approaches…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Sarah Zhao , Emmanuel Candès

Boosting has emerged as a useful machine learning technique over the past three decades, attracting increased attention. Most advancements in this area, however, have primarily focused on numerical implementation procedures, often lacking…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Yuan Bian , Grace Y. Yi , Wenqing He

While the availability of large datasets is perceived to be a key requirement for training deep neural networks, it is possible to train such models with relatively little data. However, compensating for the absence of large datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mohammad Motamedi , Nikolay Sakharnykh , Tim Kaldewey

Handling incomplete and heterogeneous data remains a central challenge in real-world machine learning, where missing values may follow complex mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, MNAR) and features can be of mixed types (numerical and categorical).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Jonathan Wells , Sunil Aryal

Multi-head, key-value attention is the backbone of the widely successful Transformer model and its variants. This attention mechanism uses multiple parallel key-value attention blocks (called heads), each performing two fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sarthak Mittal , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Irina Rish , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

Genomics data such as RNA gene expression, methylation and micro RNA expression are valuable sources of information for various clinical predictive tasks. For example, predicting survival outcomes, cancer histology type and other patients'…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-26 Sophie Peacock , Etai Jacob , Nikolay Burlutskiy

Data imputation is a cornerstone technique for handling missing values in real-world datasets, which are often plagued by missingness. Despite recent progress, prior studies on Large Language Models-based imputation remain limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Arthur Dantas Mangussi , Ricardo Cardoso Pereira , Ana Carolina Lorena , Pedro Henriques Abreu

Existing multimodal tasks mostly target at the complete input modality setting, i.e., each modality is either complete or completely missing in both training and test sets. However, the randomly missing situations have still been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Min-Yen Kan , Soujanya Poria

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

Often in real-world datasets, especially in high dimensional data, some feature values are missing. Since most data analysis and statistical methods do not handle gracefully missing values, the first step in the analysis requires the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-08 Yehezkel S. Resheff , Daphna Weinshall

Industrial applications of machine learning face unique challenges due to the nature of raw industry data. Preprocessing and preparing raw industrial data for machine learning applications is a demanding task that often takes more time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Philipp Fleck , Manfred Kügel , Michael Kommenda

The design of Large Language Models (LLMs) has long been hampered by a fundamental conflict within their core attention mechanism: its remarkable expressivity is built upon a computational complexity of O(H N^2) that grows quadratically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mingkuan Zhao , Wentao Hu , Jiayin Wang , Xin Lai , Tianchen Huang , Yuheng Min , Rui Yan , Xiaoyan Zhu

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