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During the past few years Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) has become an important direction in data analysis. The minimum description length principle (MDL) was successfully adapted in BMF for the model order selection. Nevertheless, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Tatiana Makhalova , Martin Trnecka

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. Unlike binary matrix factorization based on standard arithmetic, BMF employs the Boolean OR and AND operations for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Christos Kolomvakis , Thomas Bobille , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) aims to find an approximation of a given binary matrix as the Boolean product of two low-rank binary matrices. Binary data is ubiquitous in many fields, and representing data by binary matrices is common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Fedor Fomin , Fahad Panolan , Anurag Patil , Adil Tanveer

The goal of Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) is to approximate a given binary matrix as the product of two low-rank binary factor matrices, where the product of the factor matrices is computed under the Boolean algebra. While the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pauli Miettinen , Stefan Neumann

Addressing the interpretability problem of NMF on Boolean data, Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) uses Boolean algebra to decompose the input into low-rank Boolean factor matrices. These matrices are highly interpretable and very useful in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken

Boolean matrix factorisation aims to decompose a binary data matrix into an approximate Boolean product of two low rank, binary matrices: one containing meaningful patterns, the other quantifying how the observations can be expressed as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Tammo Rukat , Chris C. Holmes , Michalis K. Titsias , Christopher Yau

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

A novel approach to Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) is presented. Instead of solving the BMF problem directly, this approach solves a nonnegative optimization problem with the constraint over an auxiliary matrix whose Boolean structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Duc P. Truong , Erik Skau , Derek Desantis , Boian Alexandrov

Probabilistic approach to Boolean matrix factorization can provide solutions robustagainst noise and missing values with linear computational complexity. However,the assumption about latent factors can be problematic in real world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-31 Lifan Liang , Songjian Lu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Florent Avellaneda , Roger Villemaire

Boolean matrix factorization and Boolean matrix completion from noisy observations are desirable unsupervised data-analysis methods due to their interpretability, but hard to perform due to their NP-hardness. We treat these problems as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Barnabas Poczos , Russell Greiner

Tensor factorizations are computationally hard problems, and in particular, are often significantly harder than their matrix counterparts. In case of Boolean tensor factorizations -- where the input tensor and all the factors are required…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Saskia Metzler , Pauli Miettinen

Matrix factorization is an important mathematical problem encountered in the context of dictionary learning, recommendation systems and machine learning. We introduce a new `decimation' scheme that maps it to neural network models of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-12 Francesco Camilli , Marc Mézard

Mining and exploring databases should provide users with knowledge and new insights. Tiles of data strive to unveil true underlying structure and distinguish valuable information from various kinds of noise. We propose a novel Boolean…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sibylle Hess , Katharina Morik , Nico Piatkowski

Binary matrix factorisation is an essential tool for identifying discrete patterns in binary data. In this paper we consider the rank-k binary matrix factorisation problem (k-BMF) under Boolean arithmetic: we are given an n x m binary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Reka A. Kovacs , Oktay Gunluk , Raphael A. Hauser

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. As opposed to binary matrix factorization which uses standard arithmetic, BMF uses the Boolean OR and Boolean AND…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Christos Kolomvakis , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

The development of randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra, e.g. for computing approximate QR and SVD factorizations, has recently become an intense area of research. This paper studies one of the most frequently discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Rafi Witten , Emmanuel Candes

Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm where design accuracy can be traded off for benefits in design metrics such as design area, power consumption or circuit complexity. In this work, we present a novel paradigm to synthesize…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Soheil Hashemi , Hokchhay Tann , Sherief Reda

Gradient descent for matrix factorization exhibits an implicit bias toward approximately low-rank solutions. While existing theories often assume the boundedness of iterates, empirically the bias persists even with unbounded sequences. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yikun Hou , Suvrit Sra , Alp Yurtsever

Low-rank approximations of data matrices are an important dimensionality reduction tool in machine learning and regression analysis. We consider the case of categorical variables, where it can be formulated as the problem of finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Reka Kovacs , Oktay Gunluk , Raphael Hauser
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