Imputation of Missing Data with Class Imbalance using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00220v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 02:26:54 GMT
• Title: Imputation of Missing Data with Class Imbalance using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
• Authors: Saqib Ejaz Awan, Mohammed Bennamoun, Ferdous Sohel, Frank M Sanfilippo, Girish Dwivedi
• Abstract summary: We propose a new method for imputing missing data based on its class-specific characteristics. Our Conditional Generative Adversarial Imputation Network (CGAIN) imputes the missing data using class-specific distributions. We tested our approach on benchmark datasets and achieved superior performance compared with the state-of-the-art and popular imputation approaches.
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• Abstract: Missing data is a common problem faced with real-world datasets. Imputation is a widely used technique to estimate the missing data. State-of-the-art imputation approaches, such as Generative Adversarial Imputation Nets (GAIN), model the distribution of observed data to approximate the missing values. Such an approach usually models a single distribution for the entire dataset, which overlooks the class-specific characteristics of the data. Class-specific characteristics are especially useful when there is a class imbalance. We propose a new method for imputing missing data based on its class-specific characteristics by adapting the popular Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGAN). Our Conditional Generative Adversarial Imputation Network (CGAIN) imputes the missing data using class-specific distributions, which can produce the best estimates for the missing values. We tested our approach on benchmark datasets and achieved superior performance compared with the state-of-the-art and popular imputation approaches.

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