Summary of Not Another Imputation Method: a Transformer-based Model For Missing Values in Tabular Datasets, by Camillo Maria Caruso et al.
Not Another Imputation Method: A Transformer-based Model for Missing Values in Tabular Datasets
by Camillo Maria Caruso, Paolo Soda, Valerio Guarrasi
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Jul 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 The paper introduces “Not Another Imputation Method” (NAIM), a transformer-based model designed to handle missing values in tabular datasets without traditional imputation techniques. NAIM employs feature-specific embeddings and a masked self-attention mechanism that learns from available data, avoiding the need for imputation. The model is evaluated on 5 public datasets against 10 state-of-the-art models, demonstrating superior performance with various imputation techniques. The results highlight NAIM’s predictive capabilities and resilience in missing data scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to deal with missing information in big tables of data that computers use to learn from experience. Usually, we fill in the missing bits before training our models. But this new method, called NAIM, can skip this step altogether! It uses special words and attention techniques to figure out what’s going on even when some data is missing. The authors tested it with lots of real-world datasets and showed that it works better than other ways people are trying to solve this problem. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Self attention » Transformer
