arXiv:2606. 05073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Missing value imputation is a fundamental task in machine learning, with most existing methods assuming that all missing entries correspond to unobserved regular values.
Missing value imputation is a fundamental task in machine learning, with most existing methods assuming that all missing entries correspond to unobserved regular values. In many real-world datasets, however, missingness may arise from two distinct sources: some entries are meaningfully missing (intrinsically absent and semantically valid), while others are missing due to the observation process and should be imputed.
The paper introduces the Masked Diffusion Time-series Imputation Model (MDTIM), which uses a masked diffusion training paradigm to directly predict original values for time series imputation. It separates missing and observed data via a MASK token and employs Stochastic Discretization to convert continuous values into ordinal-aware tokens, preserving temporal dynamics. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that MDTIM outperforms existing deterministic and generative baselines in robustness and scalability across various missing data scenarios.
arXiv:2609.37632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series imputation has progressed from statistical and deep learning approaches to diffusion-based models, which have shown strong recent perform...
RDDMPI introduces a residual denoising diffusion model for multivariate time series imputation. By decomposing the missing signal into a baseline reconstruction and a residual uncertainty component, the method conditions the diffusion process on both the completed signal and its latent representation, using a reliability-aware mechanism to balance baseline influence. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that this approach improves reconstruction accuracy and uncertainty quantification compared to prior diffusion-based methods.
arXiv:2606. 05361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Missing data imputation in large-scale surveys faces two challenges that are not well handled by current tabular diffusion methods.
arXiv:2607. 29177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Utility data (e.
arXiv:2607. 03641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The manifold hypothesis posits that high-dimensional data are concentrated near a low-dimensional embedded manifold.
arXiv:2606. 03347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Score-based diffusion models have emerged as prominent deep generative models; however, their application to tabular data remains challenging because their backbones assume fully specified inputs, whereas real-world tabular data often contain missing values.
arXiv:2607. 07767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Missing values undermine statistical inference and machine learning pipelines, yet most imputation methods rely on heuristics or restrictive parametric assumptions that ignore the joint data distribution.
arXiv:2609.39124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models for tabular data are typically trained separately for each dataset, limiting knowledge transfer and requiring the storage of many spe...
arXiv:2606. 17106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Laboratory tests in electronic health records are collected irregularly, and the absence of a test order can be as informative as the measurement itself.