I really appreciate @ jander081's approach and expanded it a bit to deal with setting categorical columns. I had a problem when categorical columns might not work and create errors during training, so I changed the code as follows:
from fancyimpute import SoftImpute import pandas as pd class SoftImputeDf(SoftImpute): """DataFrame Wrapper around SoftImpute""" def __init__(self, shrinkage_value=None, convergence_threshold=0.001, max_iters=100,max_rank=None,n_power_iterations=1,init_fill_method="zero", min_value=None,max_value=None,normalizer=None,verbose=True): super(SoftImputeDf, self).__init__(shrinkage_value=shrinkage_value, convergence_threshold=convergence_threshold, max_iters=max_iters,max_rank=max_rank, n_power_iterations=n_power_iterations, init_fill_method=init_fill_method, min_value=min_value,max_value=max_value, normalizer=normalizer,verbose=False) def fit_transform(self, X, y=None): assert isinstance(X, pd.DataFrame), "Must be pandas dframe" for col in X.columns: if X[col].isnull().sum() < 10: X[col].fillna(0.0, inplace=True) z = super(SoftImputeDf, self).fit_transform(X.values) df = pd.DataFrame(z, index=X.index, columns=X.columns) cats = list(X.select_dtypes(include='category')) df[cats] = df[cats].astype('category')
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