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Linear dimensionality reduction techniques are powerful tools for image analysis as they allow the identification of important features in a data set. In particular, nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become very popular as it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Gabriella Casalino , Nicolas Gillis

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is a variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) that allows to handle symmetric input matrices and has been shown to be particularly well suited for clustering tasks. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-11 François Moutier , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

For linearly constrained least-squares problems that depend on a vector of parameters, this paper proposes techniques for reducing the number of involved optimization variables. After first eliminating equality constraints in a numerically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Alberto Bemporad , Gionata Cimini

Advances in large language models have driven strong performance across many tasks, but their memory and compute costs still hinder deployment. SVD-based compression reduces storage and can speed up inference via low-rank factors, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ali Abbasi , Chayne Thrash , Haoran Qin , Shansita Sharma , Sepehr Seifi , Soheil Kolouri

Despite the empirical success of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) in fine-tuning pre-trained models, there is little theoretical understanding of how first-order methods with carefully crafted initialization adapt models to new tasks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ziqing Xu , Hancheng Min , Lachlan Ewen MacDonald , Jinqi Luo , Salma Tarmoun , Enrique Mallada , Rene Vidal

The singular value decomposition (SVD) allows to write a matrix as a product of a left singular vectors matrix, a nonnegative singular values diagonal matrix and a right singular vectors matrix. Among the applications of the SVD are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Doulaye Dembele

Recommendation systems often rely on point-wise loss metrics such as the mean squared error. However, in real recommendation settings only few items are presented to a user. This observation has recently encouraged the use of rank-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Phong Nguyen , Jun Wang , Alexandros Kalousis

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 propose a unified framework to speed up the existing stochastic matrix factorization (SMF) algorithms via variance reduction. Our framework is general and it subsumes several well-known SMF formulations in the literature. We perform a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Renbo Zhao , William B. Haskell , Jiashi Feng

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

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been actively investigated and used in a wide range of problems in the past decade. A significant amount of attention has been given to develop NMF algorithms that are suitable to model time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Nasser Mohammadiha , Paris Smaragdis , Ghazaleh Panahandeh , Simon Doclo

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a data analysis technique used in a great variety of applications such as text mining, image processing, hyperspectral data analysis, computational biology, and clustering. In this paper, we…

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

Rank-revealing matrix decompositions provide an essential tool in spectral analysis of matrices, including the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and related low-rank approximation techniques. QR with Column Pivoting (QRCP) is usually…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jed A. Duersch , Ming Gu

The deployment of Large Language Models is constrained by the memory and bandwidth demands of static weights and dynamic Key-Value cache. SVD-based compression provides a hardware-friendly solution to reduce these costs. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruoling Qi , Yirui Liu , Xuaner Wu , Xiangyu Wang , Ming Li , Chen Chen , Jian Chen , Yin Chen , Qizhen Weng

Robust matrix factorization (RMF), which uses the $\ell_1$-loss, often outperforms standard matrix factorization using the $\ell_2$-loss, particularly when outliers are present. The state-of-the-art RMF solver is the RMF-MM algorithm,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

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

In recent years, semi-supervised multi-view nonnegative matrix factorization (MVNMF) algorithms have achieved promising performances for multi-view clustering. While most of semi-supervised MVNMFs have failed to effectively consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Guosheng Cui , Ruxin Wang , Dan Wu , Ye Li

In this work, we consider nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with a regularization that promotes small volume of the convex hull spanned by the basis matrix. We present highly efficient algorithms for three different volume…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-01-14 M. S. Ang , Nicolas Gillis

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has become an important technique for reducing the computational burden of Vision Language Models (VLMs), which play a central role in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haiyu Wang , Yutong Wang , Jack Jiang , Sai Qian Zhang

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