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Missing values or data is one popular characteristic of real-world datasets, especially healthcare data. This could be frustrating when using machine learning algorithms on such datasets, simply because most machine learning models perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Luke Oluwaseye Joel , Wesley Doorsamy , Babu Sena Paul

Neural additive models (NAMs) enhance the transparency of deep neural networks by handling input features in separate additive sub-networks. However, they lack inherent mechanisms that provide calibrated uncertainties and enable selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-29 Kouroche Bouchiat , Alexander Immer , Hugo Yèche , Gunnar Rätsch , Vincent Fortuin

As with many other tasks, neural networks prove very effective for anomaly detection purposes. However, very few deep-learning models are suited for detecting anomalies on tabular datasets. This paper proposes a novel methodology to flag…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hugo Thimonier , Fabrice Popineau , Arpad Rimmel , Bich-Liên Doan , Fabrice Daniel

This paper introduces a novel iterative method for missing data imputation that sequentially reduces the mutual information between data and the corresponding missingness mask. Inspired by GAN-based approaches that train generators to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Jiahao Yu , Qizhen Ying , Leyang Wang , Ziyue Jiang , Song Liu

Data imputation addresses the challenge of imputing missing values in database instances, ensuring consistency with the overall semantics of the dataset. Although several heuristics which rely on statistical methods, and ad-hoc rules have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jiang Hua , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , MD Geaur Rahman , Junwei Hu , Xi Guo , Zaiwen Fen

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

Many data mining and data analysis techniques operate on dense matrices or complete tables of data. Real-world data sets, however, often contain unknown values. Even many classification algorithms that are designed to operate with missing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Michael S. Gashler , Michael R. Smith , Richard Morris , Tony Martinez

Medical datasets are particularly subject to attribute noise, that is, missing and erroneous values. Attribute noise is known to be largely detrimental to learning performances. To maximize future learning performances it is primordial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Thomas Ranvier , Haytham Elgazel , Emmanuel Coquery , Khalid Benabdeslem

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

Data augmentation is an effective solution to data scarcity in low-resource scenarios. However, when applied to token-level tasks such as NER, data augmentation methods often suffer from token-label misalignment, which leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ran Zhou , Xin Li , Ruidan He , Lidong Bing , Erik Cambria , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

With the advent of the big data era, the data quality problem is becoming more critical. Among many factors, data with missing values is one primary issue, and thus developing effective imputation models is a key topic in the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xinyao Liu , Shengdong Du , Tianrui Li , Fei Teng , Yan Yang

Despite much work on advanced deep learning and generative modeling techniques for tabular data generation and imputation, traditional methods have continued to win on imputation benchmarks. We herein present UnmaskingTrees, a simple method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Calvin McCarter

Missing values in high-dimensional, mixed-type datasets pose significant challenges for data imputation, particularly under Missing Not At Random (MNAR) mechanisms. Existing methods struggle to integrate local and global data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Md Atik Ahamed , Qiang Ye , Qiang Cheng

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

Learning representations that transfer well to diverse downstream tasks remains a central challenge in representation learning. Existing paradigms -- contrastive learning, self-supervised masking, and denoising auto-encoders -- balance this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Micha Livne

Background: Existing guidelines for handling missing data are generally not consistent with the goals of prediction modelling, where missing data can occur at any stage of the model pipeline. Multiple imputation (MI), often heralded as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-27 Rose Sisk , Matthew Sperrin , Niels Peek , Maarten van Smeden , Glen P. Martin

Supervised deep learning is most commonly applied to difficult problems defined on large and often extensively curated datasets. Here we demonstrate the ability of deep representation learning to address problems of classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Benjamin L. Badger

Generative models play an important role in missing data imputation in that they aim to learn the joint distribution of full data. However, applying advanced deep generative models (such as Diffusion models) to missing data imputation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hengrui Zhang , Liancheng Fang , Qitian Wu , Philip S. Yu

Neural additive model (NAM) is a recently proposed explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) method that utilizes neural network-based architectures. Given the advantages of neural networks, NAMs provide intuitive explanations for their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hoki Kim , Jinseong Park , Yujin Choi , Seungyun Lee , Jaewook Lee

We propose a method that meta-learns a knowledge on matrix factorization from various matrices, and uses the knowledge for factorizing unseen matrices. The proposed method uses a neural network that takes a matrix as input, and generates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-30 Tomoharu Iwata