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Handling Missing Data in Decision Trees: A Probabilistic Approach

2020-06-29 · Pasha Khosravi, Antonio Vergari, YooJung Choi, Yitao Liang, Guy Van Den Broeck

Decision trees are a popular family of models due to their attractive properties such as interpretability and ability to handle heterogeneous data. Concurrently, missing data is a prevalent occurrence that hinders performance of machine learning models. As such, handling missing data in decision trees is a well studied problem. In this paper, we tackle this problem by taking a probabilistic approach. At deployment time, we use tractable density estimators to compute the "expected prediction" of our models. At learning time, we fine-tune parameters of already learned trees by minimizing their "expected prediction loss" w.r.t.\ our density estimators. We provide brief experiments showcasing effectiveness of our methods compared to few baselines.

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