Summary of Knockout: a Simple Way to Handle Missing Inputs, by Minh Nguyen et al.
Knockout: A simple way to handle missing inputs
by Minh Nguyen, Batuhan K. Karaman, Heejong Kim, Alan Q. Wang, Fengbei Liu, Mert R. Sabuncu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers propose a new approach called “Knockout” to address the issue of deploying deep learning models that rely on rich inputs but may encounter missing data during inference. The current solutions for handling missing inputs, such as marginalization, imputation, and training multiple models, have limitations like computational costs or inaccurate predictions. Knockout learns both the conditional distribution using full inputs and the marginal distributions by randomly replacing input features with placeholder values during training. This approach is theoretically justified as an implicit marginalization strategy and is evaluated on a range of simulations and real-world datasets, showing strong empirical performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about how to make deep learning models work better when they need lots of information to make predictions. Right now, there are some ways to handle it if some of that information is missing, but these methods have problems like taking too long or not being very accurate. The researchers came up with a new idea called “Knockout” that helps the model learn how to deal with missing data without needing all the information. They tested Knockout on lots of different examples and it worked really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Inference
