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Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. Unlike binary matrix factorization based on standard arithmetic, BMF employs the Boolean OR and AND operations for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Christos Kolomvakis , Thomas Bobille , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. As opposed to binary matrix factorization which uses standard arithmetic, BMF uses the Boolean OR and Boolean AND…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Christos Kolomvakis , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

A novel approach to Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) is presented. Instead of solving the BMF problem directly, this approach solves a nonnegative optimization problem with the constraint over an auxiliary matrix whose Boolean structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Duc P. Truong , Erik Skau , Derek Desantis , Boian Alexandrov

The goal of Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) is to approximate a given binary matrix as the product of two low-rank binary factor matrices, where the product of the factor matrices is computed under the Boolean algebra. While the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pauli Miettinen , Stefan Neumann

Boolean matrix factorisation aims to decompose a binary data matrix into an approximate Boolean product of two low rank, binary matrices: one containing meaningful patterns, the other quantifying how the observations can be expressed as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Tammo Rukat , Chris C. Holmes , Michalis K. Titsias , Christopher Yau

Probabilistic approach to Boolean matrix factorization can provide solutions robustagainst noise and missing values with linear computational complexity. However,the assumption about latent factors can be problematic in real world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-31 Lifan Liang , Songjian Lu

We present new results on Boolean matrix factorization and a new algorithm based on these results. The results emphasize the significance of factorizations that provide from-below approximations of the input matrix. While the previously…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Radim Belohlavek , Martin Trnecka

In this paper, we investigate the butterfly factorization problem, i.e., the problem of approximating a matrix by a product of sparse and structured factors. We propose a new formal mathematical description of such factors, that encompasses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Quoc-Tung Le , Léon Zheng , Elisa Riccietti , Rémi Gribonval

Boolean matrix factorization and Boolean matrix completion from noisy observations are desirable unsupervised data-analysis methods due to their interpretability, but hard to perform due to their NP-hardness. We treat these problems as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Barnabas Poczos , Russell Greiner

Boolean matrix factorization is a natural and a popular technique for summarizing binary matrices. In this paper, we study a problem of Boolean matrix factorization where we additionally require that the factor matrices have consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Nikolaj Tatti , Pauli Miettinen

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems are expressed as mathematical formulas. This paper presents a matrix representation for these SAT problems. It shows how to use this matrix representation to get the full set of valid satisfying…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Paul W. Homer

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) has many applications in data mining, bioinformatics, and network analysis. The goal of BMF is to decompose a given binary matrix as the Boolean product of two smaller binary matrices, revealing underlying…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Juliann Geraci , Alexander B. Kunin , Alexandra Seceleanu

Addressing the interpretability problem of NMF on Boolean data, Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) uses Boolean algebra to decompose the input into low-rank Boolean factor matrices. These matrices are highly interpretable and very useful in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken

We derive analytical expression of matrix factorization/completion solution by variational Bayes method, under the assumption that observed matrix is originally the product of low-rank dense and sparse matrices with additive noise. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-24 Ryota Kawasumi , Koujin Takeda

Matrix factorization is a key tool in data analysis; its applications include recommender systems, correlation analysis, signal processing, among others. Binary matrices are a particular case which has received significant attention for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Ignacio Ramirez

Binary matrix factorisation is an essential tool for identifying discrete patterns in binary data. In this paper we consider the rank-k binary matrix factorisation problem (k-BMF) under Boolean arithmetic: we are given an n x m binary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Reka A. Kovacs , Oktay Gunluk , Raphael A. Hauser

Tensor factorizations are computationally hard problems, and in particular, are often significantly harder than their matrix counterparts. In case of Boolean tensor factorizations -- where the input tensor and all the factors are required…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Saskia Metzler , Pauli Miettinen

Square matrices appear in many machine learning problems and models. Optimization over a large square matrix is expensive in memory and in time. Therefore an economic approximation is needed. Conventional approximation approaches factorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ruslan Khalitov , Tong Yu , Lei Cheng , Zhirong Yang

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

Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) aims to find an approximation of a given binary matrix as the Boolean product of two low-rank binary matrices. Binary data is ubiquitous in many fields, and representing data by binary matrices is common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Fedor Fomin , Fahad Panolan , Anurag Patil , Adil Tanveer
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