• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1333-1337
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• 2017

Recommender systems (RS) that predict a set of items a target user is likely to prefer have been extensively studied in academia and have been aggressively implemented by many companies such as Google, Netflix, eBay, and Amazon. Data imputation alleviates the data sparsity problem occurring in recommender systems by inferring missing ratings and adding them to the original data. In this paper, we point out the drawbacks of existing approaches and make suggestions for data imputation techniques. We also justify our suggestions through extensive experiments.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.145-153
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• 2021

Data imputation is a crucial issue in data analysis because quality data are highly correlated with the performance of AI models. Particularly, it is difficult to collect quality time-series data for uncertain situations (for example, electricity blackout, delays for network conditions). Thus, it is necessary to research effective methods of time-series data imputation. Many studies on time-series data imputation can be divided into 5 parts, including statistical based, matrix-based, regression-based, deep learning (RNN and GAN) based methodologies. This study reviews and organizes these methodologies. Recently, deep learning-based imputation methods are developed and show excellent performance. However, it is associated to some computational problems that make it difficult to use in real-time system. Thus, the direction of future work is to develop low computational but high-performance imputation methods for application in the real field.