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Matrix factorization techniques, especially Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), have been widely used for dimensionality reduction and interpretable data representation. However, existing NMF-based methods are inherently single-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jichao Zhang , Ran Miao , Limin Li

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) factorizes a non-negative matrix into product of two non-negative matrices, namely a signal matrix and a mixing matrix. NMF suffers from the scale and ordering ambiguities. Often, the source signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Nirav Bhatt , Arun Ayyar

Nonnegative matrix factorization is the following problem: given a nonnegative input matrix $V$ and a factorization rank $K$, compute two nonnegative matrices, $W$ with $K$ columns and $H$ with $K$ rows, such that $WH$ approximates $V$ as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Valentin Leplat , Yurii Nesterov , Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

In this letter, we generalize the convolutional NMF by taking the $\beta$-divergence as the contrast function and present the correct multiplicative updates for its factors in closed form. The new updates unify the $\beta$-NMF and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Pedro J. Villasana T. , Stanislaw Gorlow , Arvind T. Hariraman

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

In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

A robust algorithm for non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is presented in this paper with the purpose of dealing with large-scale data, where the separability assumption is satisfied. In particular, we modify the Linear Programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-10 Jason Gejie Liu , Shuchin Aeron

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

The symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, has found numerous applications in data analysis such as various clustering tasks. Unfortunately, designing fast algorithms for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Kai Liu

This paper provides a theoretical explanation on the clustering aspect of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). We prove that even without imposing orthogonality nor sparsity constraint on the basis and/or coefficient matrix, NMF still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Andri Mirzal , Masashi Furukawa

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

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

Many datasets are obtained as a resolution trade-off between two adversarial dimensions; for example between the frequency and the temporal resolutions for the spectrogram of an audio signal, and between the number of wavelengths and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Valentin Leplat , Nicolas Gillis , Cédric Févotte

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Gabriele Torre , Michael Graber

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SymNMF) has important applications in data analytics problems such as document clustering, community detection and image segmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel nonconvex variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong , Zhengdao Wang

Identifying recurring patterns in high-dimensional time series data is an important problem in many scientific domains. A popular model to achieve this is convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF), which extends classic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Anthony Degleris , Ben Antin , Surya Ganguli , Alex H Williams

Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (semi-NMF) extends classical Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) by allowing the basis matrix to contain both positive and negative entries, making it suitable for decomposing data with mixed signs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lu Chenggang

We generalize the non-negative matrix factorization algorithm of Lee and Seung to accept a weighted norm, and to support ridge and Lasso regularization. We recast the Lee and Seung multiplicative update as an additive update which does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Steven E. Pav

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for analyzing nonnegative data. A key aspect of NMF is the choice of the objective function that depends on the noise model (or statistics of the noise)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Nicolas Gillis , Le Thi Khanh Hien , Valentin Leplat , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Given a matrix $X\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}_+$ with non-negative entries, the cone factorization problem over a cone $\mathcal{K}\subseteq \mathbb{R}^k$ concerns computing $\{ a_1,\ldots, a_{m} \} \subseteq \mathcal{K}$ and $\{ b_1,\ldots,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Yong Sheng Soh , Antonios Varvitsiotis