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Numerous algorithms are used for nonnegative matrix factorization under the assumption that the matrix is nearly separable. In this paper, we show how to make these algorithms efficient for data matrices that have many more rows than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Jason D. Lee , Bartek Rajwa , David F. Gleich

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

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

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) was popularized as a tool for data mining by Lee and Seung in 1999. NMF attempts to approximate a matrix with nonnegative entries by a product of two low-rank matrices, also with nonnegative entries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-05-02 Michael Biggs , Ali Ghodsi , Stephen Vavasis

We present a motivating example for matrix multiplication based on factoring a data matrix. Traditionally, matrix multiplication is motivated by applications in physics: composing rigid transformations, scaling, sheering, etc. We present an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Barak A. Pearlmutter , Helena Šmigoc

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been successfully applied to many areas for classification and clustering. Commonly-used NMF algorithms mainly target on minimizing the $l_2$ distance or Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, which may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Le Li , Jianjun Yang , Yang Xu , Zhen Qin , Honggang Zhang

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

Semi-Non-negative Matrix Factorization is a technique that learns a low-dimensional representation of a dataset that lends itself to a clustering interpretation. It is possible that the mapping between this new representation and our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-11 George Trigeorgis , Konstantinos Bousmalis , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Bjoern W. Schuller

Nonnegative matrix factorization can be used to automatically detect topics within a corpus in an unsupervised fashion. The technique amounts to an approximation of a nonnegative matrix as the product of two nonnegative matrices of lower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Michael R. Lindstrom , Xiaofu Ding , Feng Liu , Anand Somayajula , Deanna Needell

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is the problem of determining two non-negative low rank factors $W$ and $H$, for the given input matrix $A$, such that $A \approx W H$. NMF is a useful tool for many applications in different domains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Grey Ballard , Haesun Park

This paper describes a new algorithm for computing Nonnegative Low Rank Matrix (NLRM) approximation for nonnegative matrices. Our approach is completely different from classical nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) which has been studied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Guang-Jing Song , Michael Kwok-Po Ng

Coupled Matrix Tensor Factorization (CMTF) facilitates the integration and analysis of multiple data sources and helps discover meaningful information. Nonnegative CMTF (N-CMTF) has been employed in many applications for identifying latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam , Richi Nayak , Chau Yuen

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

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

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a versatile and powerful tool for discovering latent structures in data matrices, with many variations proposed in the literature. Recently, Leplat et al.\@ (2019) introduced a minimum-volume NMF…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-26 Duc Toan Nguyen , Eric C. Chi

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), a dimensionality reduction and factor analysis method, is a special case in which factor matrices have low-rank nonnegative constraints. Considering the stochastic learning in NMF, we specifically…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Hiroyuki Kasai

There has been a recent critical need to study fairness and bias in machine learning (ML) algorithms. Since there is clearly no one-size-fits-all solution to fairness, ML methods should be developed alongside bias mitigation strategies that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Lara Kassab , Erin George , Deanna Needell , Haowen Geng , Nika Jafar Nia , Aoxi Li

Non-negative matrix factorization is a popular tool for decomposing data into feature and weight matrices under non-negativity constraints. It enjoys practical success but is poorly understood theoretically. This paper proposes an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuanzhi Li , Yingyu Liang , Andrej Risteski

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for dimensionality reduction and interpretable analysis, but standard formulations are unsupervised and cannot directly exploit class labels. Existing supervised or semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kenichi Satoh

In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate significantly the algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). This framework is inspired from the extrapolation scheme used to accelerate gradient methods in convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Andersen Man Shun Ang , Nicolas Gillis