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Time series imputation is one of the most challenge problems and has broad applications in various fields like health care and the Internet of Things. Existing methods mainly aim to model the temporally latent dependencies and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ruichu Cai , Kaitao Zheng , Junxian Huang , Zijian Li , Zhengming Chen , Boyan Xu , Zhifeng Hao

A common approach for handling missing values in data analysis pipelines is multiple imputation via software packages such as MICE (Van Buuren and Groothuis-Oudshoorn, 2011) and Amelia (Honaker et al., 2011). These packages typically assume…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-23 Trung Phung , Kyle Reese , Ilya Shpitser , Rohit Bhattacharya

Missing data is a common problem in time series data. Most methods for imputation ignore label information pertaining to the time series even if that information exists. In this paper, we provide a framework for missing data imputation in…

Many studies have attempted to solve the problem of missing data using various approaches. Among them, Generative Adversarial Imputation Nets (GAIN) was first used to impute data with Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) and good results were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Simiao Zhao

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

Motivated by the analysis of nonnegative data objects, a novel Nested Nonnegative Cone Analysis (NNCA) approach is proposed to overcome some drawbacks of existing methods. The application of traditional PCA/SVD method to nonnegative data…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-09 Lingsong Zhang , J. S. Marron , Shu Lu

State-of-the-art causal discovery methods usually assume that the observational data is complete. However, the missing data problem is pervasive in many practical scenarios such as clinical trials, economics, and biology. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Erdun Gao , Ignavier Ng , Mingming Gong , Li Shen , Wei Huang , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang , Howard Bondell

Although approaches for handling missing data from longitudinal studies are well-developed when the patterns of missingness are monotone, fewer methods are available for non-monotone missingness. Moreover, the conventional missing at random…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-28 Boyu Ren , Stuart R. Lipsitz , Roger D. Weiss , Garrett M. Fitzmaurice

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) offer a robust and interpretable approach to image classification, making them a promising choice for microscopy image analysis. However, a performance gap remains between NCA and larger, more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are a promising new approach to model self-organizing processes, with potential applications in life science. However, their deterministic nature limits their ability to capture the stochasticity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Salvatore Milite , Giulio Caravagna , Andrea Sottoriva

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…

Processed data are insightful, and crude data are obtuse. A serious threat to data reliability is missing values. Such data leads to inaccurate analysis and wrong predictions. We propose an efficient technique to impute the missing value in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Prateek Mishra , Kumar Divya Mani , Prashant Johri , Dikhsa Arya

Item nonresponse is frequently encountered in practice. Ignoring missing data can lose efficiency and lead to misleading inference. Fractional imputation is a frequentist approach of imputation for handling missing data. However, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-18 Hejian Sang , Jae Kwang Kim

BACKGROUND: As databases grow larger, it becomes harder to fully control their collection, and they frequently come with missing values: incomplete observations. These large databases are well suited to train machine-learning models, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Alexandre Perez-Lebel , Gaël Varoquaux , Marine Le Morvan , Julie Josse , Jean-Baptiste Poline

How to learn a good predictor on data with missing values? Most efforts focus on first imputing as well as possible and second learning on the completed data to predict the outcome. Yet, this widespread practice has no theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-01 Marine Le Morvan , Julie Josse , Erwan Scornet , Gaël Varoquaux

Healthcare time series data is vital for monitoring patient activity but often contains noise and missing values due to various reasons such as sensor errors or data interruptions. Imputation, i.e., filling in the missing values, is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Lien P. Le , Xuan-Hien Nguyen Thi , Thu Nguyen , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Binh T. Nguyen

Data imputation is a critical step in data pre-processing, particularly for datasets with missing or unreliable values. This study introduces a novel quantum-inspired imputation framework evaluated on the UCI Diabetes dataset, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Nishikanta Mohanty , Bikash K. Behera , Badshah Mukherjee , Christopher Ferrie

Time series data are observations collected over time intervals. Successful analysis of time series data captures patterns such as trends, cyclicity and irregularity, which are crucial for decision making in research, business, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Daniel Zhang

Missing data can pose a challenge for machine learning (ML) modeling. To address this, current approaches are categorized into feature imputation and label prediction and are primarily focused on handling missing data to enhance ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Laixin Xie , Yang Ouyang , Longfei Chen , Ziming Wu , Quan Li