Summary of Mining Of Switching Sparse Networks For Missing Value Imputation in Multivariate Time Series, by Kohei Obata et al.
Mining of Switching Sparse Networks for Missing Value Imputation in Multivariate Time Series
by Kohei Obata, Koki Kawabata, Yasuko Matsubara, Yasushi Sakurai
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Sep 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 proposed method, MissNet, is a novel approach to accurately impute missing values in multivariate time series data by exploiting both temporal dependency and inter-correlation between sequences. By employing a state-space model and switching sparse networks, MissNet can capture complex relationships between features and adapt to changing network structures over time. The algorithm scales linearly with the length of the data and provides interpretable results through conditional independence encoding. Experimental results demonstrate that MissNet outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms for multivariate time series imputation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MissNet is a new way to fill in missing values in complex datasets. It uses two important ideas: how things change over time (temporal dependency) and how they relate to each other (inter-correlation). The method creates a network that shows which features are connected, which helps us understand what’s important for filling in the gaps. MissNet is fast and can handle long data sets. It also provides results that are easy to understand because it encodes conditional independence between features. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Time series
