AAAI 2026

January 25, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

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Missing data presents a widespread challenge in real-world data collection. In this paper, our goal is to impute missing entries while accurately reflecting the uncertainty associated with them. We introduce U-VAE, a method that employs a non-parametric distributional learning strategy to parameterize the likelihood of missing values. To address the infeasibility of directly estimating the underlying conditional distributions due to data incompleteness, we incorporate stochastic re-masking and un-masking techniques during training. Specifically, we replace the conventional reconstruction loss with the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS), a strictly proper scoring rule, and theoretically demonstrate that the discrepancy between the underlying conditional distribution and our imputer is upper-bounded. We evaluate the performance of U-VAE on 11 real-world datasets, showing its effectiveness in both single and multiple imputations, while also enhancing post-imputation performance and supporting valid statistical inference.

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