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We propose a geometric assumption on nonnegative data matrices such that under this assumption, we are able to provide upper bounds (both deterministic and probabilistic) on the relative error of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-02 Zhaoqiang Liu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Motivated by the analysis of nonnegative data objects, a novel Nested Nonnegative Cone Analysis (NNCA) approach is proposed to overcome some drawbacks of existing methods. The application of traditional PCA/SVD method to nonnegative data…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-09 Lingsong Zhang , J. S. Marron , Shu Lu

Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (SNMF) models arise naturally as simple reformulations of many standard clustering algorithms including the popular spectral clustering method. Recent work has demonstrated that an elementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Reza Borhani , Jeremy Watt , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data, with applications such as hyperspectral unmixing and topic modeling. NMF is a difficult problem in general (NP-hard), and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Valentin Leplat , Michael Ng , Nicolas Gillis

In this letter, we propose a new identification criterion that guarantees the recovery of the low-rank latent factors in the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) model, under mild conditions. Specifically, using the proposed criterion, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Xiao Fu , Kejun Huang , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) is a widely used tool for unsupervised learning and feature extraction, with applications ranging from genomics to text analysis and signal processing. Standard formulations of NMF are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Elisabeth Sommer James , Asger Hobolth , Marta Pelizzola

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular data embedding technique. Given a nonnegative data matrix $X$, it aims at finding two lower dimensional matrices, $W$ and $H$, such that $X\approx WH$, where the factors $W$ and $H$ are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Olivier Vu Thanh , Nicolas Gillis

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been successfully applied to many areas for classification and clustering. Commonly-used NMF algorithms mainly target on minimizing the $l_2$ distance or Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, which may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Le Li , Jianjun Yang , Yang Xu , Zhen Qin , Honggang Zhang

Matrix decomposition is ubiquitous and has applications in various fields like speech processing, data mining and image processing to name a few. Under matrix decomposition, nonnegative matrix factorization is used to decompose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 R. Jyothi , P. Babu , R. Bahl

Matrix factorization techniques have been widely used as a method for collaborative filtering for recommender systems. In recent times, different variants of deep learning algorithms have been explored in this setting to improve the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Vaibhav Krishna , Tian Guo , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Identifying overlapping communities in networks is a challenging task. In this work we present a novel approach to community detection that utilises the Bayesian non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) model to produce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-28 Ioannis Psorakis , Stephen Roberts , Ben Sheldon

Nonsmooth Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (nsNMF) is capable of producing more localized, less overlapped feature representations than other variants of NMF while keeping satisfactory fit to data. However, nsNMF as well as other existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jinshi Yu , Guoxu Zhou , Andrzej Cichocki , Shengli Xie

Nowadays, the availability of large-scale data in disparate application domains urges the deployment of sophisticated tools for extracting valuable knowledge out of this huge bulk of information. In that vein, low-rank representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Paris V. Giampouras , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis , Konstantinos D. Koutroumbas

Given a matrix $M$ (not necessarily nonnegative) and a factorization rank $r$, semi-nonnegative matrix factorization (semi-NMF) looks for a matrix $U$ with $r$ columns and a nonnegative matrix $V$ with $r$ rows such that $UV$ is the best…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Nicolas Gillis , Abhishek Kumar

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown recently to be tractable under the separability assumption, under which all the columns of the input data matrix belong to the convex cone generated by only a few of these columns.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-27 Nicolas Gillis , Robert Luce

During the fabrication of casting parts sensor data is typically automatically recorded and accumulated for process monitoring and defect diagnosis. As casting is a thermal process with many interacting process parameters, root cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Peter Weiderer , Ana Maria Tomé , Elmar Wolfgang Lang

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a technique for finding latent representations of data. The method has been applied to corpora to construct topic models. However, NMF has likelihood assumptions which are often violated by real…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Skyler Seto , Sarah Tan , Giles Hooker , Martin T. Wells

Non-negative sparse coding is a method for decomposing multivariate data into non-negative sparse components. In this paper we briefly describe the motivation behind this type of data representation and its relation to standard sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Patrik O. Hoyer

The nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used in signal and image processing, including bio-informatics, blind source separation and hyperspectral image analysis in remote sensing. A great challenge arises when dealing with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Fei Zhu , Paul Honeine , Maya Kallas

For most problems in science and engineering we can obtain data sets that describe the observed system from various perspectives and record the behavior of its individual components. Heterogeneous data sets can be collectively mined by data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Marinka Žitnik , Blaž Zupan