Andrea Basteri

Distributionally Faithful Imputation via Positive Semi-Definite Kernel Density Estimation

Andrea Basteri, Carlo Ciliberto, Alessandro Rudi

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. We recast imputation under missing completely at random (MCAR) as density e…Read more