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A theoretical framework for non-negative matrix factorization based on generalized dual Kullback-Leibler divergence, which includes members of the exponential family of models, is proposed. A family of algorithms is developed using this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-20 Karthik Devarajan

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

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is the problem of decomposing a given nonnegative $n \times m$ matrix $M$ into a product of a nonnegative $n \times d$ matrix $W$ and a nonnegative $d \times m$ matrix $H$. A longstanding open…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Dmitry Chistikov , Stefan Kiefer , Ines Marušić , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an unsupervised learning method offering low-rank representations across various domains such as audio processing, biomedical signal analysis, and image recognition. The incorporation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

The California Innocence Project (CIP), a clinical law school program aiming to free wrongfully convicted prisoners, evaluates thousands of mails containing new requests for assistance and corresponding case files. Processing and…

Deep Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (deep NMF) has recently emerged as a valuable technique for extracting multiple layers of features across different scales. However, all existing deep NMF models and algorithms have primarily centered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Valentin Leplat , Le Thi Khanh Hien , Akwum Onwunta , Nicolas Gillis

The model described in this paper belongs to the family of non-negative matrix factorization methods designed for data representation and dimension reduction. In addition to preserving the data positivity property, it aims also to preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Rachid Hedjam , Abdelhamid Abdesselam , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

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

Learning approaches rely on hyperparameters that impact the algorithm's performance and affect the knowledge extraction process from data. Recently, Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has attracted a growing interest as a learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Nicoletta Del Buono , Flavia Esposito , Laura Selicato , Rafal Zdunek

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is one of the most frequently-used matrix factorization models in data analysis. A significant reason to the popularity of NMF is its interpretability and the `parts of whole' interpretation of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Sanjar Karaev , James Hook , Pauli Miettinen

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a given matrix as a product of two non-negative matrices. Multiplicative algorithms deliver reliable results, but they show slow convergence for high-dimensional data and may be stuck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Felipe Yanez , Francis Bach

Dimensionality reduction is considered as an important step for ensuring competitive performance in unsupervised learning such as anomaly detection. Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular and widely used method to accomplish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Imtiaz Ahmed , Xia Ben Hu , Mithun P. Acharya , Yu Ding

How can we process a piece of recorded music to detect and visualize the onset of each instrument? A simple, interpretable approach is based on partially fixed nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Yet despite the method's simplicity,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Alisha L. Foster , Robert J. Webber

In this article, we study algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) in various applications involving streaming data. Utilizing the continual nature of the data, we develop a fast two-stage algorithm for highly efficient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Ran Gu , Qiang Du , Simon J. L. Billinge

Given a collection of data points, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) suggests to express them as convex combinations of a small set of `archetypes' with non-negative entries. This decomposition is unique only if the true archetypes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-09 Hamid Javadi , Andrea Montanari

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

A recent theoretical analysis shows the equivalence between non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and spectral clustering based approach to subspace clustering. As NMF and many of its variants are essentially linear, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-08 Dijana Tolic , Nino Antulov-Fantulin , Ivica Kopriva

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

Legacy procedures for topic modelling have generally suffered problems of overfitting and a weakness towards reconstructing sparse topic structures. With motivation from a consumer-generated corpora, this paper proposes semiparametric topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Dominic B. Dayta , Erniel B. Barrios

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a popular tool for data exploration. Bayesian NMF promises to also characterize uncertainty in the factorization. Unfortunately, current inference approaches such as MCMC mix slowly and tend to get…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-28 M. Arjumand Masood , Finale Doshi-Velez