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Data often comes in the form of an array or matrix. Matrix factorization techniques attempt to recover missing or corrupted entries by assuming that the matrix can be written as the product of two low-rank matrices. In other words, matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been widely used in machine learning and signal processing because of its non-subtractive, part-based property which enhances interpretability. It is often assumed that the latent dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-25 Zhaoqiang Liu

We propose a novel model for a topic-aware chatbot by combining the traditional Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) encoder-decoder model with a topic attention layer based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). After learning topic vectors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Yuchen Guo , Nicholas Hanoian , Zhexiao Lin , Nicholas Liskij , Hanbaek Lyu , Deanna Needell , Jiahao Qu , Henry Sojico , Yuliang Wang , Zhe Xiong , Zhenhong Zou

The problem of finding overlapping communities in networks has gained much attention recently. Optimization-based approaches use non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) or variants, but the global optimum cannot be provably attained in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-26 Xueyu Mao , Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Online nonnegative matrix factorization (ONMF) is a matrix factorization technique in the online setting where data are acquired in a streaming fashion and the matrix factors are updated each time. This enables factor analysis to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Hanbaek Lyu , Georg Menz , Deanna Needell , Christopher Strohmeier

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

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) asks to decompose a (entry-wise) non-negative matrix into the product of two smaller-sized nonnegative matrices, which has been shown intractable in general. In order to overcome this issue, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Zhihuai Chen , Yinan Li , Xiaoming Sun , Pei Yuan , Jialin Zhang

Non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) is a widely used tool for unsupervised learning and feature extraction, with applications ranging from genomics to text analysis and signal processing. Standard formulations of NMF are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Elisabeth Sommer James , Asger Hobolth , Marta Pelizzola

Audio segmentation is a key task for many speech technologies, most of which are based on neural networks, usually considered as black boxes, with high-level performances. However, in many domains, among which health or forensics, there is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Martin Lebourdais , Théo Mariotte , Antonio Almudévar , Marie Tahon , Alfonso Ortega

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

Hyperspectral unmixing has been an important technique that estimates a set of endmembers and their corresponding abundances from a hyperspectral image (HSI). Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) plays an increasingly significant role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xin-Ru Feng , Heng-Chao Li , Rui Wang , Qian Du , Xiuping Jia , Antonio Plaza

We present a hybrid method for latent information discovery on the data sets containing both text content and connection structure based on constrained low rank approximation. The new method jointly optimizes the Nonnegative Matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Rundong Du , Barry Drake , Haesun Park

Given a symmetric nonnegative matrix $A$, symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is the problem of finding a nonnegative matrix $H$, usually with much fewer columns than $A$, such that $A \approx HH^T$. SymNMF can be used for…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis , Qi Lei , Kai Zhong , Inderjit Dhillon

Solving text classification in a weakly supervised manner is important for real-world applications where human annotations are scarce. In this paper, we propose to query a masked language model with cloze style prompts to obtain supervision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ziqian Zeng , Weimin Ni , Tianqing Fang , Xiang Li , Xinran Zhao , Yangqiu Song

Although many techniques have been applied to matrix factorization (MF), they may not fully exploit the feature structure. In this paper, we incorporate the grouping effect into MF and propose a novel method called Robust Matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Haiyan Jiang , Shuyu Li , Luwei Zhang , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou

Matrix factorization has been recently utilized for the task of multi-modal hashing for cross-modality visual search, where basis functions are learned to map data from different modalities to the same Hamming embedding. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Hong Liu , Rongrong Ji , Yongjian Wu , Gang Hua

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

In this paper, a whitening-based algorithm has been applied to sparse non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) as a preprocessing practice enhancing the identification of buried object, significantly. In fact, without utilizing a suitable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Ali Gharamohammadi , Fereidoon Behnia , Arash Shokouhmand

Recommender systems research has experienced different stages such as from user preference understanding to content analysis. Typical recommendation algorithms were built on the following bases: (1) assuming users and items are IID, namely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) aims to factorize a matrix into two optimized nonnegative matrices appropriate for the intended applications. The method has been widely used for unsupervised learning tasks, including recommender…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-14 Junyu Xuan , Jie Lu , Guangquan Zhang , Richard Yi Da Xu , Xiangfeng Luo