Summary of Segan: Semi-supervised Learning Approach For Missing Data Imputation, by Xiaohua Pan et al.
SEGAN: semi-supervised learning approach for missing data imputation
by Xiaohua Pan, Weifeng Wu, Peiran Liu, Zhen Li, Peng Lu, Peijian Cao, Jianfeng Zhang, Xianfei Qiu, YangYang Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 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 The paper proposes a novel missing data completion model called SEGAN, which leverages semi-supervised learning to integrate label information into the prediction process. The SEGAN model consists of three modules: generator, discriminator, and classifier. The classifier enables the generator to utilize known data and its labels when predicting missing values. Additionally, the model introduces a missing hint matrix to aid the discriminator in distinguishing between known data and generated data. Theoretical analysis proves that the SEGAN model can learn the true known data distribution at Nash equilibrium. Experimental results demonstrate that SEGAN outperforms state-of-the-art multivariate data completion methods by more than 3%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper discusses a big problem with artificial intelligence: missing data! It’s hard to develop AI when some information is missing. One way to fix this is by filling in the gaps with fake data. Most current methods don’t use all the available information, like labels that tell us what things mean. This paper proposes a new method called SEGAN that uses semi-supervised learning. It has three parts: one that generates new data, one that checks if it’s real or not, and one that makes sure the generated data is good. The authors showed that their method works better than others in experiments. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Semi supervised
