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Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a useful method to extract features from multivariate data, but an important and sometimes neglected concern is that NMF can result in non-unique solutions. Often, there exist a Set of Feasible…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-20 Ragnhild Laursen , Asger Hobolth

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a prominent technique for data dimensionality reduction that has been widely used for text mining, computer vision, pattern discovery, and bioinformatics. In this paper, a framework called ARkNLS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Delin Chu , Wenya Shi , Srinivas Eswar , Haesun Park

State-of-the-art neural networks can be trained to become remarkable solutions to many problems. But while these architectures can express symbolic, perfect solutions, trained models often arrive at approximations instead. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Matan Abudy , Orr Well , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir , Nur Lan

The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle states that the optimal model for a given data set is that which compresses it best. Due to practial limitations the model can be restricted to a class such as linear regression models, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-13 Florin Popescu , Daniel Renz

Deep matrix factorizations (deep MFs) are recent unsupervised data mining techniques inspired by constrained low-rank approximations. They aim to extract complex hierarchies of features within high-dimensional datasets. Most of the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Pierre De Handschutter , Nicolas Gillis

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a prominent technique for the analysis of image databases, text databases and other information retrieval and clustering applications. In this report, we define an exact version of NMF. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2007-09-27 Stephen A. Vavasis

The recovery of the underlying low-rank structure of clean data corrupted with sparse noise/outliers is attracting increasing interest. However, in many low-level vision problems, the exact target rank of the underlying structure and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Anyong Qin , Lina Xian , Yongliang Yang , Taiping Zhang , Yuan Yan Tang

This paper considers nonlinear dynamic models where the main parameter of interest is a nonnegative matrix characterizing the network (contagion) effects. This network matrix is usually constrained either by assuming a limited number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-11-23 Christian Gourieroux , Joann Jasiak

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 (NMF) has been widely used to dimensionality reduction in machine learning. However, the traditional NMF does not properly handle outliers, so that it is sensitive to noise. In order to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tingting Shen , Junhang Li , Can Tong , Qiang He , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

We present a novel game-theoretic formulation of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NNMF), a popular data-analysis method with many scientific and engineering applications. The game-theoretic formulation is shown to have favorable scaling…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Satpreet H. Singh

This article introduces quaternion non-negative matrix factorization (QNMF), which generalizes the usual non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to the case of polarized signals. Polarization information is represented by Stokes parameters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Julien Flamant , Sebastian Miron , David Brie

Given a matrix $M$ (not necessarily nonnegative) and a factorization rank $r$, semi-nonnegative matrix factorization (semi-NMF) looks for a matrix $U$ with $r$ columns and a nonnegative matrix $V$ with $r$ rows such that $UV$ is the best…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Nicolas Gillis , Abhishek Kumar

A fundamental problem associated with the task of network reconstruction from dynamical or behavioral data consists in determining the most appropriate model complexity in a manner that prevents overfitting, and produces an inferred network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-24 Tiago P. Peixoto

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

Low dimensional nonlinear structure abounds in datasets across computer vision and machine learning. Kernelized matrix factorization techniques have recently been proposed to learn these nonlinear structures for denoising, classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jicong Fan , Chengrun Yang , Madeleine Udell

We introduce a new method based on nonnegative matrix factorization, Neural NMF, for detecting latent hierarchical structure in data. Datasets with hierarchical structure arise in a wide variety of fields, such as document classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tyler Will , Runyu Zhang , Eli Sadovnik , Mengdi Gao , Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

This is about the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle applied to pattern mining. The length of this description is kept to the minimum. Mining patterns is a core task in data analysis and, beyond issues of efficient enumeration, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Esther Galbrun

This is an up-to-date introduction to and overview of the Minimum Description Length (MDL) Principle, a theory of inductive inference that can be applied to general problems in statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. While MDL…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-19 Peter Grünwald , Teemu Roos

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) with Kullback-Leibler Divergence (NMF-KL) is one of the most significant NMF problems and equivalent to Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), which has been successfully applied in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Duy Khuong Nguyen , Tu Bao Ho