Imputation using training labels and classification via label imputation

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Thu, Vo, Tuan L., Halvorsen, Pål, Riegler, Michael A.
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Published: 2023
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author Nguyen, Thu
Vo, Tuan L.
Halvorsen, Pål
Riegler, Michael A.
author_facet Nguyen, Thu
Vo, Tuan L.
Halvorsen, Pål
Riegler, Michael A.
contents Missing data is a common problem in practical data science settings. Various imputation methods have been developed to deal with missing data. However, even though the labels are available in the training data in many situations, the common practice of imputation usually only relies on the input and ignores the label. We propose Classification Based on MissForest Imputation (CBMI), a classification strategy that initializes the predicted test label with missing values and stacks the label with the input for imputation, allowing the label and the input to be imputed simultaneously. In addition, we propose the imputation using labels (IUL) algorithm, an imputation strategy that stacks the label into the input and illustrates how it can significantly improve the imputation quality. Experiments show that CBMI has classification accuracy when the test set contains missing data, especially for imbalanced data and categorical data. Moreover, for both the regression and classification, IUL consistently shows significantly better results than imputation based on only the input data.
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spellingShingle Imputation using training labels and classification via label imputation
Nguyen, Thu
Vo, Tuan L.
Halvorsen, Pål
Riegler, Michael A.
Machine Learning
Missing data is a common problem in practical data science settings. Various imputation methods have been developed to deal with missing data. However, even though the labels are available in the training data in many situations, the common practice of imputation usually only relies on the input and ignores the label. We propose Classification Based on MissForest Imputation (CBMI), a classification strategy that initializes the predicted test label with missing values and stacks the label with the input for imputation, allowing the label and the input to be imputed simultaneously. In addition, we propose the imputation using labels (IUL) algorithm, an imputation strategy that stacks the label into the input and illustrates how it can significantly improve the imputation quality. Experiments show that CBMI has classification accuracy when the test set contains missing data, especially for imbalanced data and categorical data. Moreover, for both the regression and classification, IUL consistently shows significantly better results than imputation based on only the input data.
title Imputation using training labels and classification via label imputation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16877