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We show how to incorporate information from labeled examples into nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), a popular unsupervised learning algorithm for dimensionality reduction. In addition to mapping the data into a space of lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Youngmin Cho , Lawrence K. Saul

Non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) is a widely used tool for unsupervised learning and feature extraction, with applications ranging from genomics to text analysis and signal processing. Standard formulations of NMF are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Elisabeth Sommer James , Asger Hobolth , Marta Pelizzola

Neural machine translation (NMT) models are typically trained with fixed-size input and output vocabularies, which creates an important bottleneck on their accuracy and generalization capability. As a solution, various studies proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Duygu Ataman , Marcello Federico

We present a method for introducing a text encoder into pre-trained end-to-end speech translation systems. It enhances the ability of adapting one modality (i.e., source-language speech) to another (i.e., source-language text). Thus, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Yuhao Zhang , Chen Xu , Bojie Hu , Chunliang Zhang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Neural machine translation (NMT) takes deterministic sequences for source representations. However, either word-level or subword-level segmentations have multiple choices to split a source sequence with different word segmentors or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Fengshun Xiao , Jiangtong Li , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen

This paper describes a versatile method that accelerates multichannel source separation methods based on full-rank spatial modeling. A popular approach to multichannel source separation is to integrate a spatial model with a source model…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Kouhei Sekiguchi , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Yoshiaki Bando , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

In this paper, we address the problem of multichannel speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. A long short-time memory (LSTM) network takes as input a sequence of STFT coefficients associated with a frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xiaofei LI , Radu Horaud

The aim of this study is to provide a foundation to understand the relationship between non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and non-negative autoencoders enabling proper interpretation and understanding of autoencoder-based alternatives…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-14 Ida Egendal , Rasmus Froberg Brøndum , Marta Pelizzola , Asger Hobolth , Martin Bøgsted

We propose a novel method for emotion conversion in speech based on a chained encoder-decoder-predictor neural network architecture. The encoder constructs a latent embedding of the fundamental frequency (F0) contour and the spectrum, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Ravi Shankar , Hsi-Wei Hsieh , Nicolas Charon , Archana Venkataraman

Dereverberation of recorded speech signals is one of the most pertinent problems in speech processing. In the present work, the objective is to understand and implement dereverberation techniques that aim at enhancing the magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Dhruv Nigam

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

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

We propose a new method to enforce priors on the solution of the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The proposed algorithm can be used for denoising or single-channel source separation (SCSS) applications. The NMF solution is guided to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Emad M. Grais , Hakan Erdogan

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely-used data analysis technique, and has yielded impressive results in many real-world tasks. Generally, existing NMF methods represent each sample with several centroids, and find the optimal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverage the generalization and robustness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Chong-Xin Gan , Peter Bell , Man-Wai Mak , Zhe Li , Zezhong Jin , Zilong Huang , Kong Aik Lee

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been widely used to learn low-dimensional representations of data. However, NMF pays the same attention to all attributes of a data point, which inevitably leads to inaccurate representation. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiao Wei , Can Tong , Bingxue Wu , Qiang He , Shouliang Qi , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

Previous speech enhancement methods focus on estimating the short-time spectrum of speech signals due to its short-term stability. However, these methods often only estimate the clean magnitude spectrum and reuse the noisy phase when…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Chuang Geng , Lei Wang

We present a neural network that can act as an equivalent to a Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), and further show how it can be used to perform supervised source separation. Due to the extensibility of this approach we show how we…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Paris Smaragdis , Shrikant Venkataramani

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, NMF, attempts to find a number of archetypal response profiles, or parts, such that any sample profile in the dataset can be approximated by a close profile among these archetypes or a linear combination…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-19 Paul Fogel

Fast Fourier convolution (FFC) is the recently proposed neural operator showing promising performance in several computer vision problems. The FFC operator allows employing large receptive field operations within early layers of the neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ivan Shchekotov , Pavel Andreev , Oleg Ivanov , Aibek Alanov , Dmitry Vetrov