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Selective Imputation for Multivariate Time Series Datasets With Missing Values

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2023.3240858

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Multivariate time series; missing data; imputation; irregular sampling

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This paper proposes a selective imputation method for handling missing values in multivariate time series data. By using multi-objective optimization techniques, the method selects the time points to impute in order to reduce imputation uncertainty and accurately represent the original time series. Experimental results show that this method can improve the performance of downstream tasks while maintaining the quality of the imputations.
Multivariate time series often contain missing values for reasons such as failures in data collection mechanisms. Since these missing values can complicate the analysis of time series data, imputation techniques are typically used to deal with this issue. However, the quality of the imputation directly affects the performance of downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose a selective imputation method that identifies a subset of timesteps with missing values to impute in a multivariate time series dataset. This selection, which will result in shorter and simpler time series, is based on both reducing the uncertainty of the imputations and representing the original time series as good as possible. In particular, the method uses multi-objective optimization techniques to select the optimal set of points, and in this selection process, we leverage the beneficial properties of the Multi-task Gaussian Process (MGP). The method is applied to different datasets to analyze the quality of the imputations and the performance obtained in downstream tasks, such as classification or anomaly detection. The results show that much shorter and simpler time series are able to maintain or even improve both the quality of the imputations and the performance of the downstream tasks.

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