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arxiv: 1907.05251 · v1 · pith:6O5KPZ6Vnew · submitted 2019-07-10 · 💻 cs.LG · stat.ML

Time series cluster kernels to exploit informative missingness and incomplete label information

Karl {\O}yvind Mikalsen , Cristina Soguero-Ruiz , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Arthur Revhaug , Robert Jenssen This is my paper

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keywords time series clusteringkernel methodsinformative missingnessmixture modelssemi-supervised learningelectronic health recordsmultivariate time seriesensemble methods
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The pith

A kernel for time series clustering exploits informative missingness by representing missing patterns inside mixed-mode mixture models and adds a semi-supervised version that uses incomplete labels.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Standard time series cluster kernels treat missing values as ignorable under a missing-at-random assumption. The paper replaces that with a kernel that first builds an explicit representation of each missing pattern and then feeds both the observed values and the pattern representation into mixed-mode mixture models. The resulting ensemble kernel therefore extracts similarity information from the locations and patterns of the missing entries themselves. A second kernel extends the same framework to the semi-supervised case so that any available labels, even if incomplete, refine the learned similarities. Experiments on benchmark series and on longitudinal electronic health records show the new kernels produce more accurate cluster assignments when missingness carries signal.

Core claim

The authors create an informative-missingness kernel by constructing a representation of the missing pattern and incorporating it into mixed-mode mixture models so that the information provided by the missing patterns is effectively exploited, together with a semi-supervised kernel that takes advantage of incomplete label information to learn more accurate similarities. Both kernels are formed as ensembles of Bayesian mixture models and therefore inherit the original TCK properties of handling missing values without imputation and remaining robust to hyperparameter choice.

What carries the argument

Mixed-mode mixture models that receive both the observed time-series values and an explicit representation of the missing pattern as joint inputs to the base learners of an ensemble kernel.

If this is right

  • Clustering can proceed on incomplete multivariate time series without any imputation step.
  • Missingness patterns themselves become part of the similarity measure and can separate subgroups that standard kernels would merge.
  • Partial label information can be used during kernel learning to sharpen the similarity matrix even when most labels are absent.
  • The ensemble construction keeps performance stable across choices of the number of mixture components and other hyperparameters.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same missing-pattern representation could be inserted into other kernel families or distance measures that currently assume ignorable missingness.
  • In domains where missingness arises from clinical decisions rather than random failure, the kernel may surface previously hidden patient strata.
  • Controlled synthetic experiments that vary the strength of the missingness–label association would quantify how much signal is recovered.

Load-bearing premise

The missingness mechanism is informative and a representation of the missing pattern can be incorporated into mixed-mode mixture models without introducing bias or requiring further assumptions on the data-generating process.

What would settle it

On the same electronic-health-record cohort, a direct comparison in which missing patterns are randomly shuffled before kernel construction would show no gain in clustering accuracy for the new kernel over the original TCK.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1907.05251 by Arthur Revhaug, Cristina Soguero-Ruiz, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Karl {\O}yvind Mikalsen, Robert Jenssen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Plot of the two-dimensional KPCA representation of the synthetic data obtained using 6 di [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the approach taken to detect postoperative SSI from MTS blood samples. day 1 until day 10 were removed from the cohort, which lead to a final cohort consisting of 858 patients. The average pro￾portion of missing data in the cohort was 80.7%. Tab. 6 shows a list of the blood tests we considered in this study and their corresponding missing rate. Guided by input from clinicians, the International… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Plot of the two-dimensional KPCA representation of the colon rectal cancer surgery patients obtained using 5 kernels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The time series cluster kernel (TCK) provides a powerful tool for analysing multivariate time series subject to missing data. TCK is designed using an ensemble learning approach in which Bayesian mixture models form the base models. Because of the Bayesian approach, TCK can naturally deal with missing values without resorting to imputation and the ensemble strategy ensures robustness to hyperparameters, making it particularly well suited for unsupervised learning. However, TCK assumes missing at random and that the underlying missingness mechanism is ignorable, i.e. uninformative, an assumption that does not hold in many real-world applications, such as e.g. medicine. To overcome this limitation, we present a kernel capable of exploiting the potentially rich information in the missing values and patterns, as well as the information from the observed data. In our approach, we create a representation of the missing pattern, which is incorporated into mixed mode mixture models in such a way that the information provided by the missing patterns is effectively exploited. Moreover, we also propose a semi-supervised kernel, capable of taking advantage of incomplete label information to learn more accurate similarities. Experiments on benchmark data, as well as a real-world case study of patients described by longitudinal electronic health record data who potentially suffer from hospital-acquired infections, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper extends the time series cluster kernel (TCK), which uses an ensemble of Bayesian mixture models to handle missing values without imputation, by incorporating a representation of missing patterns into mixed-mode mixture models to exploit informative (non-ignorable) missingness. It also introduces a semi-supervised variant that leverages incomplete label information for improved similarity learning. Effectiveness is claimed via experiments on benchmark datasets and a real-world case study using longitudinal electronic health record data for hospital-acquired infection detection.

Significance. If the central construction holds, the work provides a practical kernel-based approach for time series clustering that directly uses missingness patterns rather than assuming they are ignorable (MAR), which is relevant for domains like medicine where missingness often carries signal. The ensemble Bayesian strategy for hyperparameter robustness is a noted strength, and the semi-supervised extension addresses a common practical constraint.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] The description of the mixed-mode mixture models (abstract and methods) states that the missingness indicator is treated as an additional observed mode, but does not provide an explicit derivation or set of equations showing that this construction remains consistent under MNAR mechanisms without implicitly reintroducing an ignorability assumption; this is load-bearing for the claim of exploiting informative missingness.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: the benchmark and case-study results are asserted to demonstrate effectiveness, but the manuscript does not report quantitative metrics (e.g., clustering accuracy, ARI, or comparison deltas versus standard TCK) or ablation controls that isolate the contribution of the missing-pattern representation; without these, the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Notation for the missing-pattern representation should be introduced with a clear definition (e.g., an indicator matrix or embedding) before its use in the mixture model.
  2. [Case study] The real-world EHR case study would benefit from a brief description of the missingness rate and pattern statistics to contextualize the informative-missingness assumption.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] The description of the mixed-mode mixture models (abstract and methods) states that the missingness indicator is treated as an additional observed mode, but does not provide an explicit derivation or set of equations showing that this construction remains consistent under MNAR mechanisms without implicitly reintroducing an ignorability assumption; this is load-bearing for the claim of exploiting informative missingness.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit derivation would strengthen the presentation. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection deriving the mixed-mode mixture model likelihood under MNAR, showing that the missingness indicator enters the joint density directly and that no ignorability assumption is reintroduced. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the benchmark and case-study results are asserted to demonstrate effectiveness, but the manuscript does not report quantitative metrics (e.g., clustering accuracy, ARI, or comparison deltas versus standard TCK) or ablation controls that isolate the contribution of the missing-pattern representation; without these, the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We accept that the current version relies on qualitative assertions. The revision will include tables with ARI, NMI and accuracy on the benchmark datasets, direct numerical comparisons against TCK, and ablation results that isolate the missing-pattern component. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected

full rationale

The paper's central construction extends the existing TCK by explicitly representing missingness patterns as an additional observed mode and incorporating them into mixed-mode Bayesian mixture models within an ensemble. This modeling choice is presented as a direct, non-tautological extension that avoids imputation while exploiting informative missingness; the semi-supervised variant follows the same explicit construction. No load-bearing step reduces a claimed prediction or uniqueness result to a fitted parameter, self-citation chain, or definitional renaming. The derivation remains self-contained against the stated assumptions and does not invoke prior author work as an external uniqueness theorem.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are detailed beyond the high-level modeling choice of representing missing patterns.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Missing at random and ignorable missingness assumptions do not hold in many real-world applications such as medicine.
    Stated explicitly as the limitation of prior TCK that the new work addresses.

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