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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Youdong Guo , Timothy E. Holy

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, is demonstrated to be useful for data analysis and in particular for various clustering tasks. Unfortunately, designing fast algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Zhihui Zhu , Xiao Li , Kai Liu , Qiuwei Li

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…

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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

Dictionary Learning (DL) is one of the leading sparsity promoting techniques in the context of image classification, where the "dictionary" matrix D of images and the sparse matrix X are determined so as to represent a redundant image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Domitilla Brandoni , Margherita Porcelli , Valeria Simoncini

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) approximates a nonnegative matrix, $X$, by the product of two nonnegative factors, $WH$, where $W$ has $r$ columns and $H$ has $r$ rows. In this paper, we consider NMF using the component-wise L1 norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Giovanni Seraghiti , Kévin Dubrulle , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

A collaborative convex framework for factoring a data matrix $X$ into a non-negative product $AS$, with a sparse coefficient matrix $S$, is proposed. We restrict the columns of the dictionary matrix $A$ to coincide with certain columns of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-27 Ernie Esser , Michael Möller , Stanley Osher , Guillermo Sapiro , Jack Xin

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

In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) decompose non-negative high-dimensional data into non-negative low-rank components. NMF and NTF methods are popular for their intrinsic interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alexander Sietsema , Zerrin Vural , James Chapman , Yotam Yaniv , Deanna Needell

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

In the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem, the input is an $m\times n$ matrix $M$ with non-negative entries and the goal is to factorize it as $M\approx AW$. The $m\times k$ matrix $A$ and the $k\times n$ matrix $W$ are both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Moses Charikar , Lunjia Hu

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular unsupervised learning approach widely used in image clustering. However, in real-world clustering scenarios, most existing NMF methods are highly sensitive to noise corruption and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jingjing Liu , Nian Wu , Xianchao Xiu , Jianhua Zhang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been widely studied in recent years due to its effectiveness in representing nonnegative data with parts-based representations. For NMF, a sparser solution implies better parts-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Chong Peng , Yiqun Zhang , Yongyong Chen , Zhao Kang , Chenglizhao Chen , Qiang Cheng

We derive approximation algorithms for the nonnegative matrix factorization problem, i.e. the problem of factorizing a matrix as the product of two matrices with nonnegative coefficients. We form convex approximations of this problem which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Vijay Krishnamurthy , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for analyzing regularly-sampled data, i.e., data that can be stored in a matrix. For audio, this has led to numerous applications using time-frequency (TF) representations like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis , Takuya Higuchi , Mehrez Souden

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

By combining related objects, unsupervised machine learning techniques aim to reveal the underlying patterns in a data set. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a data mining technique that splits data matrices by imposing…

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