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This paper describes several improvements to a new method for signal decomposition that we recently formulated under the name of Differentiable Dictionary Search (DDS). The fundamental idea of DDS is to exploit a class of powerful deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Lukáš Samuel Marták , Rainer Kelz , Gerhard Widmer

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) models are widely used to recover linearly mixed nonnegative data. When the data is made of samplings of continuous signals, the factors in NMF can be constrained to be samples of nonnegative rational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Cécile Hautecoeur , Lieven De Lathauwer , Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a fundamental non-convex optimization problem with numerous applications in Machine Learning (music analysis, document clustering, speech-source separation etc). Despite having received extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Ioannis Panageas , Stratis Skoulakis , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Xiao Wang

Considering a mixed signal composed of various audio sources and recorded with a single microphone, we consider on this paper the blind audio source separation problem which consists in isolating and extracting each of the sources. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Valentin Leplat , Nicolas Gillis , Man Shun Ang

An algorithm is described and tested that carries out a non negative matrix factorization (NMF) ignoring any stretching of the signal along the axis of the independent variable. This extended NMF model is called StretchedNMF. Variability in…

Blind source separation is a common processing tool to analyse the constitution of pixels of hyperspectral images. Such methods usually suppose that pure pixel spectra (endmembers) are the same in all the image for each class of materials.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-03 Charlotte Revel , Yannick Deville , Véronique Achard , Xavier Briottet

Levy processes, which have stationary independent increments, are ideal for modelling the various types of noise that can arise in communication channels. If a Levy process admits exponential moments, then there exists a parametric family…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston , Xun Yang

The study of distributed order calculus usually concerns about fractional derivatives of the form $\int_0^1 \partial^\alpha u \, m(d\alpha)$ for some measure $m$, eventually a probability measure. In this paper an approach based on L\'evy…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bruno Toaldo

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for analyzing regularly-sampled data, i.e., data that can be stored in a matrix. For audio, this has led to numerous applications using time-frequency (TF) representations like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis , Takuya Higuchi , Mehrez Souden

Exploring noise distributions beyond Gaussian in diffusion models remains an open challenge. While Gaussian-based models succeed within a unified SDE framework, recent studies suggest that heavy-tailed noise distributions, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Dario Shariatian , Umut Simsekli , Alain Durmus

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for dimension reduction, extracting latent factors and learning part-based representation. For large datasets, NMF performance depends on some major issues: fast algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Duy-Khuong Nguyen , Tu-Bao Ho

We propose a new blind source separation algorithm based on mixtures of alpha-stable distributions. Complex symmetric alpha-stable distributions have been recently showed to better model audio signals in the time-frequency domain than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Nicolas Keriven , Antoine Deleforge , Antoine Liutkus

We present a numerical algorithm for nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) problems under noisy separability. An NMF problem under separability can be stated as one of finding all vertices of the convex hull of data points. The research…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-06 Tomohiko Mizutani

This paper presents a novel approach to sound source separation that leverages spatial information obtained during the recording setup. Our method trains a spatial mixing filter using solo passages to capture information about the room…

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a key technique for feature extraction and widely used in source separation. However, existing algorithms may converge to poor local minima, or to one of several minima with similar objective value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Youdong Guo , Timothy E. Holy

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) decompose non-negative high-dimensional data into non-negative low-rank components. NMF and NTF methods are popular for their intrinsic interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alexander Sietsema , Zerrin Vural , James Chapman , Yotam Yaniv , Deanna Needell

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a common method for generating topic models from text data. NMF is widely accepted for producing good results despite its relative simplicity of implementation and ease of computation. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Brendan Gavin , Vijay Gadepally , Jeremy Kepner

In this work we perform some mathematical analysis on non-negative matrix factorizations (NMF) and apply NMF to some imaging and inverse problems. We will propose a sparse low-rank approximation of big positive data and images in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Yat Tin Chow , Kazufumi Ito , Jun Zou

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a non-negative endogenous data matrix as $Y_1 \approx XB$, with non-negative latent components $X$ and coefficients $B$. Standard covariate-aware NMF is feedforward: $B$ depends only on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-18 Kenichi Satoh

Hyperspectral unmixing has been an important technique that estimates a set of endmembers and their corresponding abundances from a hyperspectral image (HSI). Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) plays an increasingly significant role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xin-Ru Feng , Heng-Chao Li , Rui Wang , Qian Du , Xiuping Jia , Antonio Plaza