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Title: Comparison of Data Imputation Performance in Deep Generative Models for Educational Tabular Missing Data
Language: English
Authors: Wan-Chong Choi, Chan-Tong Lam, António José Mendes
Source: International Educational Data Mining Society. 2025.
Availability: International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferences/
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Page Count: 10
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Descriptors: Research Problems, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Models, Classification, Artificial Intelligence
Abstract: Missing data presents a significant challenge in Educational Data Mining (EDM). Imputation techniques aim to reconstruct missing data while preserving critical information in datasets for more accurate analysis. Although imputation techniques have gained attention in various fields in recent years, their use for addressing missing data in education remains limited. This study contributes to filling the research gap by evaluating state-of-the-art deep generative models: Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE), Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Networks (CTGAN), and Tabular Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (TabDDPM) for imputing missing values using the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD) with varying levels of missing data. These deep generative models identify relationships among demographic, behavioral, and partial assessment data to impute absent numerical assessment scores. TabDDPM showed the best imputation performance and maintained closer alignment with the original data, as demonstrated by the KL divergence and KDE plots. To further enhance predictive modeling performance with imputed data, this study proposes TabDDPM-SMOTE, which combines TabDDPM with the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) to tackle the class imbalance often encountered in educational datasets. Our TabDDPM-SMOTE model consistently achieves the highest F1-score when using the imputed data in XGBoost classification tasks, showcasing its strong efficiency and potential to enhance predictive effectiveness modeling. [For the complete proceedings, see ED675583.]
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