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The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) of the rating matrix has shown to be an effective method to tackle the recommendation problem. In this paper we propose new methods based on the NMF of the rating matrix and we compare them with…

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Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is one of the most popular decomposition techniques for multivariate data. NMF is a core method for many machine-learning related computational problems, such as data compression, feature extraction,…

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely used technique in many applications such as face recognition, motion segmentation, etc. It approximates the nonnegative data in an original high dimensional space with a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Bin Shen , Luo Si , Rongrong Ji , Baodi Liu

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is the problem of approximating a nonnegative matrix with the product of two low-rank nonnegative matrices and has been shown to be particularly useful in many applications, e.g., in text mining, image…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

Bayesian Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a promising approach for understanding uncertainty and structure in matrix data. However, a large volume of applied work optimizes traditional non-Bayesian NMF objectives that fail to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-19 M. Arjumand Masood , Finale Doshi-Velez

We propose a portfolio allocation method based on risk factor budgeting using convex Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). Unlike classical factor analysis, PCA, or ICA, NMF ensures positive factor loadings to obtain interpretable…

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In this paper we explore avenues for improving the reliability of dimensionality reduction methods such as Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) as interpretive exploratory data analysis tools. We first explore the difficulties of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-22 Nikolaos Vasiloglou , Alexander G. Gray , David V. Anderson

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used as a feature extraction technique for matrices with non-negative entries, such as image data, purchase histories, and other types of count data. In NMF, a non-negative matrix is…

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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…

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Inference for latent feature models is inherently difficult as the inference space grows exponentially with the size of the input data and number of latent features. In this work, we use Kurihara & Welling (2008)'s maximization-expectation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-25 Colorado Reed , Zoubin Ghahramani

Latent feature models are a powerful tool for modeling data with globally-shared features. Nonparametric exchangeable models such as the Indian Buffet Process offer modeling flexibility by letting the number of latent features be unbounded.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-27 Finale Doshi-Velez , Sinead A. Williamson

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality technique for nonnegative data with applications such as image analysis, text mining, audio source separation and hyperspectral unmixing. Given a data matrix $M$ and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junjun Pan , Nicolas Gillis

This paper describes a new approach, based on linear programming, for computing nonnegative matrix factorizations (NMFs). The key idea is a data-driven model for the factorization where the most salient features in the data are used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Victor Bittorf , Benjamin Recht , Christopher Re , Joel A. Tropp

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been widely used to dimensionality reduction in machine learning. However, the traditional NMF does not properly handle outliers, so that it is sensitive to noise. In order to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tingting Shen , Junhang Li , Can Tong , Qiang He , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is the problem of determining two non-negative low rank factors $W$ and $H$, for the given input matrix $A$, such that $A \approx W H$. NMF is a useful tool for many applications in different domains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Grey Ballard , Haesun Park

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a very popular technique in machine learning because it automatically extracts meaningful features through a sparse and part-based representation. However, NMF has the drawback of being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-07 Nicolas Gillis

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) based topic modeling is widely used in natural language processing (NLP) to uncover hidden topics of short text documents. Usually, training a high-quality topic model requires large amount of textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Ruiyi Zhang , Qinliang Su , Jing Xiao

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a relatively new unsupervised learning algorithm that decomposes a nonnegative data matrix into a parts-based, lower dimensional, linear representation of the data. NMF has applications in image…

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

Fully unsupervised topic models have found fantastic success in document clustering and classification. However, these models often suffer from the tendency to learn less-than-meaningful or even redundant topics when the data is biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Elizaveta Rebrova , Deanna Needell

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…

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