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A Review of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Methods for Clustering

Machine Learning 2015-08-31 v2 Machine Learning Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) was first introduced as a low-rank matrix approximation technique, and has enjoyed a wide area of applications. Although NMF does not seem related to the clustering problem at first, it was shown that they are closely linked. In this report, we provide a gentle introduction to clustering and NMF before reviewing the theoretical relationship between them. We then explore several NMF variants, namely Sparse NMF, Projective NMF, Nonnegative Spectral Clustering and Cluster-NMF, along with their clustering interpretations.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03194,
  title  = {A Review of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Methods for Clustering},
  author = {Ali Caner Türkmen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03194},
  year   = {2015}
}
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