Title
VIGAN: Missing view imputation with generative adversarial networks
Abstract
In an era when big data are becoming the norm, there is less concern with the quantity but more with the quality and completeness of the data. In many disciplines, data are collected from heterogeneous sources, resulting in multi-view or multi-modal datasets. The missing data problem has been challenging to address in multi-view data analysis. Especially, when certain samples miss an entire view of data, it creates the missing view problem. Classic multiple imputations or matrix completion methods are hardly effective here when no information can be based on in the specific view to impute data for such samples. The commonly-used simple method of removing samples with a missing view can dramatically reduce sample size, thus diminishing the statistical power of a subsequent analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for view imputation via generative adversarial networks (GANs), which we name by VIGAN. This approach first treats each view as a separate domain and identifies domain-to-domain mappings via a GAN using randomly-sampled data from each view, and then employs a multi-modal denoising autoencoder (DAE) to reconstruct the missing view from the GAN outputs based on paired data across the views. Then, by optimizing the GAN and DAE jointly, our model enables the knowledge integration for domain mappings and view correspondences to effectively recover the missing view. Empirical results on benchmark datasets validate the VIGAN approach by comparing against the state of the art. The evaluation of VIGAN in a genetic study of substance use disorders further proves the effectiveness and usability of this approach in life science.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/BigData.2017.8257992
2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
missing data,missing view,generative adversarial networks,autoencoder,domain mapping,cycle-consistent
Conference
abs/1708.06724
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2639-1589
978-1-5386-2716-7
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Shang1242.58
Aaron Palmer270.79
Jiangwen Sun3668.73
Ko-Shin Chen4101.17
Jin Lu5324.46
Jinbo Bi61432104.24