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Boolean Matrix Factorization with SAT and MaxSAT

Machine Learning 2021-06-21 v1

Abstract

The Boolean matrix factorization problem consists in approximating a matrix by the Boolean product of two smaller Boolean matrices. To obtain optimal solutions when the matrices to be factorized are small, we propose SAT and MaxSAT encoding; however, when the matrices to be factorized are large, we propose a heuristic based on the search for maximal biclique edge cover. We experimentally demonstrate that our approaches allow a better factorization than existing approaches while keeping reasonable computation times. Our methods also allow the handling of incomplete matrices with missing entries.

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@article{arxiv.2106.10105,
  title  = {Boolean Matrix Factorization with SAT and MaxSAT},
  author = {Florent Avellaneda and Roger Villemaire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10105},
  year   = {2021}
}
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