Mattias Ohlsson
Professor
Establishing strong imputation performance of a denoising autoencoder in a wide range of missing data problems
Author
Summary, in English
Dealing with missing data in data analysis is inevitable. Although powerful imputation methods that address this problem exist, there is still much room for improvement. In this study, we examined single imputation based on deep autoencoders, motivated by the apparent success of deep learning to efficiently extract useful dataset features. We have developed a consistent framework for both training and imputation. Moreover, we benchmarked the results against state-of-the-art imputation methods on different data sizes and characteristics. The work was not limited to the one-type variable dataset; we also imputed missing data with multi-type variables, e.g., a combination of binary, categorical, and continuous attributes. To evaluate the imputation methods, we randomly corrupted the complete data, with varying degrees of corruption, and then compared the imputed and original values. In all experiments, the developed autoencoder obtained the smallest error for all ranges of initial data corruption.
Department/s
- Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Has been reorganised
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2019-11-06
Language
English
Pages
137-146
Publication/Series
Neurocomputing
Volume
365
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Bioinformatics (Computational Biology)
Keywords
- Autoencoder
- Deep learning
- Imputation
- Missing data
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0925-2312