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.
arXiv:2609.15284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Missing values are ubiquitous in heterogeneous data mining, where numerical, categorical, and binary variables often coexist. Many imputation methods,...
By Sergei Kholkin, Kirill Sokolov, Dmitry Baranchuk, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
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...
By Fariza Rashid, Duc Van Le, Rahat Masood, Gustavo Batista, Aruna Seneviratne, Suranga Seneviratne
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.
By Dongbin Kim, Seungyun Lee, Geonwoo Shin, Jaewook Lee
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.
By Jungkyu Kim, Taeyoung Park, Kibok Lee
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.
By Ramiro Valdes Jara, David Chapman, Adam Meyers