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In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate significantly the algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). This framework is inspired from the extrapolation scheme used to accelerate gradient methods in convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Andersen Man Shun Ang , Nicolas Gillis

In the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem, the input is an $m\times n$ matrix $M$ with non-negative entries and the goal is to factorize it as $M\approx AW$. The $m\times k$ matrix $A$ and the $k\times n$ matrix $W$ are both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Moses Charikar , Lunjia Hu

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an emerging technique with a wide spectrum of potential applications in data analysis. Mathematically, NMF can be formulated as a minimization problem with nonnegative constraints. This problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Tran Dang Hien , Do Van Tuan , Pham Van At

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a natural model of admixture and is widely used in science and engineering. A plethora of algorithms have been developed to tackle NMF, but due to the non-convex nature of the problem, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Rong Ge , James Zou

Deep matrix factorizations (deep MFs) are recent unsupervised data mining techniques inspired by constrained low-rank approximations. They aim to extract complex hierarchies of features within high-dimensional datasets. Most of the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Pierre De Handschutter , Nicolas Gillis

We propose a flexible and theoretically supported framework for scalable nonnegative matrix factorization. The goal is to find nonnegative low-rank components directly from compressed measurements, accessing the original data only once or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Abraar Chaudhry , Elizaveta Rebrova

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) based topic modeling methods do not rely on model- or data-assumptions much. However, they are usually formulated as difficult optimization problems, which may suffer from bad local minima and high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-26 JianYu Wang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Non-negative matrix factorization with transform learning (TL-NMF) is a recent idea that aims at learning data representations suited to NMF. In this work, we relate TL-NMF to the classical matrix joint-diagonalization (JD) problem. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Sixin Zhang , Emmanuel Soubies , Cédric Févotte

We briefly review the basic ideas behind archetypal analysis for matrix factorization and discuss its behavior in approximating the convex hull of a data sample. We then ask how good such approximations can be and consider different cases.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Christian Bauckhage

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an unsupervised learning algorithm that produces a linear, parts-based approximation of a data matrix. NMF constructs a nonnegative low rank basis matrix and a nonnegative low rank matrix of weights…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-08 Matthew Corsetti , Ernest Fokoué

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular method for audio spectral unmixing. While NMF is traditionally applied to off-the-shelf time-frequency representations based on the short-time Fourier or Cosine transforms, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Pierre Ablin , Dylan Fagot , Herwig Wendt , Alexandre Gramfort , Cédric Févotte

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is a variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) that allows to handle symmetric input matrices and has been shown to be particularly well suited for clustering tasks. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-11 François Moutier , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

A method for extracting multiscale geometric features from a data cloud is proposed and analyzed. The basic idea is to map each pair of data points into a real-valued feature function defined on $[0,1]$. The construction of these feature…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Gabriel Chandler , Wolfgang Polonik

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) is the problem of approximating a given nonnegative matrix M through the product of two nonnegative low-rank matrices W and H. Traditionally NMF is tackled by optimizing a specific objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Flavia Esposito , Andersen Ang

Dimensionality reduction (DR) of image features plays an important role in image retrieval and classification tasks. Recently, two types of methods have been proposed to improve the both the accuracy and efficiency for the dimensionality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Yao Nan , Qian Feng , Sun Zuolei

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (MMF) was recently introduced as an alternative to the dominant low-rank paradigm in order to capture structure in matrices at multiple different scales. Using ideas from multiresolution analysis (MRA),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Shubhendu Trivedi , Risi Kondor

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

Collaborative filtering generates recommendations by exploiting user-item similarities based on rating data, which often contains numerous unrated items. To predict scores for unrated items, matrix factorization techniques such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Yukino Terui , Yuka Inoue , Yohei Hamakawa , Kosuke Tatsumura , Kazue Kudo

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SymNMF) is a powerful tool for clustering, which typically uses the $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) method to construct similarity matrix. However, $k$-NN may mislead clustering since the neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Wenlong Lyu , Yuheng Jia