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Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data, with applications such as hyperspectral unmixing and topic modeling. NMF is a difficult problem in general (NP-hard), and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Valentin Leplat , Michael Ng , Nicolas Gillis

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

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a dimensionality reduction technique which tends to produce a sparse representation of data. Commonly, the error between the actual and recreated matrices is used as an objective function, but this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Steven Squires , Adam Prugel Bennett , Mahesan Niranjan

An algorithm is described and tested that carries out a non negative matrix factorization (NMF) ignoring any stretching of the signal along the axis of the independent variable. This extended NMF model is called StretchedNMF. Variability in…

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

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) was first introduced as a low-rank matrix approximation technique, and has enjoyed a wide area of applications. Although NMF does not seem related to the clustering problem at first, it was shown that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-31 Ali Caner Türkmen

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely used technique for data representation. Inspired by the expressive power of deep learning, several NMF variants equipped with deep architectures have been proposed. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yuning Qiu , Guoxu Zhou , Kan Xie

Collaborative filtering generates recommendations by exploiting user-item similarities based on rating data, which often contains numerous unrated items. To predict scores for unrated items, matrix factorization techniques such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Yukino Terui , Yuka Inoue , Yohei Hamakawa , Kosuke Tatsumura , Kazue Kudo

Modern spectroscopic databases provide a wealth of information about the physical processes and environments associated with astrophysical populations. Techniques such as blind source separation (BSS), in which sets of spectra are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James T. Allen , Paul C. Hewett , Vasily Belokurov , Vivienne Wild

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), first proposed in 1994 for data analysis, has received successively much attention in a great variety of contexts such as data mining, text clustering, computer vision, bioinformatics, etc. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SNMF) has demonstrated to be a powerful method for data clustering. However, SNMF is mathematically formulated as a non-convex optimization problem, making it sensitive to the initialization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Qingfu Zhang

Source apportionment analysis, which aims to quantify the attribution of observed concentrations of multiple air pollutants to specific sources, can be formulated as a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem. However, NMF is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Bora Jin , Abhirup Datta

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an intensively used technique for obtaining parts-based, lower dimensional and non-negative representation. Researchers in biology, medicine, pharmacy and other fields often prefer NMF over other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Matej Mihelčić , Pauli Miettinen

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

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

Factor analysis is broadly used as a powerful unsupervised machine learning tool for reconstruction of hidden features in recorded mixtures of signals. In the case of a linear approximation, the mixtures can be decomposed by a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Filip L. Iliev , Valentin G. Stanev , Velimir V. Vesselinov , Boian S. Alexandrov

The nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used in signal and image processing, including bio-informatics, blind source separation and hyperspectral image analysis in remote sensing. A great challenge arises when dealing with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Fei Zhu , Paul Honeine , Maya Kallas

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular method for audio spectral unmixing. While NMF is traditionally applied to off-the-shelf time-frequency representations based on the short-time Fourier or Cosine transforms, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Pierre Ablin , Dylan Fagot , Herwig Wendt , Alexandre Gramfort , Cédric Févotte

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used tool for learning parts-based, low-dimensional representations of nonnegative data, with applications in vision, text, and bioinformatics. In clustering applications, orthogonal NMF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a known unsupervised data-reduction method. The principle of the common cause (PCC) is a basic methodological approach in probabilistic causality, which seeks an independent mixture model for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 E. Khalafyan , A. E. Allahverdyan , A. Hovhannisyan