mcar_mask_generator function

Missing Completely at Random (MCAR) Mask Generator

A mask generator which masks the entries in the input completely at random.

mcar_mask_generator(masking_ratio = 0.5, paired_sampling = FALSE)

Arguments

• masking_ratio: Numeric between 0 and 1. The probability for an entry in the generated mask to be 1 (masked).
• paired_sampling: Boolean. If we are doing paired sampling. So include both S and $\bar{S}$. If TRUE, then batch must be sampled using paired_sampler() which ensures that the batch contains two instances for each original observation. That is, batch $= [X_1, X_1, X_2, X_2, X_3, X_3, ...]$, where each entry $X_j$ is a row of dimension $p$ (i.e., the number of features).

Details

The mask generator mask each element in the batch (N x p) using a component-wise independent Bernoulli distribution with probability masking_ratio. Default values for masking_ratio is 0.5, so all masks are equally likely to be generated, including the empty and full masks. The function returns a mask of the same shape as the input batch, and the batch can contain missing values, indicated by the "NaN" token, which will always be masked.

Shape

• Input: $(N, p)$ where N is the number of observations in the batch and $p$ is the number of features.
• Output: $(N, p)$, same shape as the input

Author(s)

Lars Henry Berge Olsen