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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been continuously evolving in several areas like pattern recognition and information retrieval methods. It factorizes a matrix into a product of 2 low-rank non-negative matrices that will define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Jing-Yan Wang , Mustafa AbdulJabbar

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has found many applications including topic modeling and document analysis. Hierarchical NMF (HNMF) variants are able to learn topics at various levels of granularity and illustrate their hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Deanna Needell

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is an important technique for obtaining low dimensional representations of datasets. However, classical NMF does not take into account data that is collected at different times or in different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 James Chapman , Yotam Yaniv , Deanna Needell

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

Dimensionality reduction and matrix factorization techniques are important and useful machine-learning techniques in many fields. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is particularly useful for spectral analysis and image processing in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 Guangtun Zhu

A recent theoretical analysis shows the equivalence between non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and spectral clustering based approach to subspace clustering. As NMF and many of its variants are essentially linear, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-08 Dijana Tolic , Nino Antulov-Fantulin , Ivica Kopriva

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has proven to be a powerful unsupervised learning method for uncovering hidden features in complex and noisy data sets with applications in data mining, text recognition, dimension reduction, face…

We introduce negative binomial matrix factorization (NBMF), a matrix factorization technique specially designed for analyzing over-dispersed count data. It can be viewed as an extension of Poisson matrix factorization (PF) perturbed by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Olivier Gouvert , Thomas Oberlin , Cédric Févotte

Given a matrix $M$ (not necessarily nonnegative) and a factorization rank $r$, semi-nonnegative matrix factorization (semi-NMF) looks for a matrix $U$ with $r$ columns and a nonnegative matrix $V$ with $r$ rows such that $UV$ is the best…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Nicolas Gillis , Abhishek Kumar

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) 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) methods have proved to be powerful across a wide range of real-world clustering applications. Integrating multiple types of measurements for the same objects/subjects allows us to gain a deeper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Daniel Hidru , Anna Goldenberg

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

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a technique for finding latent representations of data. The method has been applied to corpora to construct topic models. However, NMF has likelihood assumptions which are often violated by real…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Skyler Seto , Sarah Tan , Giles Hooker , Martin T. Wells

In this paper, we study the nonnegative matrix factorization problem under the separability assumption (that is, there exists a cone spanned by a small subset of the columns of the input nonnegative data matrix containing all columns),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-07 Nicolas Gillis , Stephen A. Vavasis

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for dimensionality reduction and clustering. Unfortunately, the interpretation of the clustering results from NMF is difficult, especially for the high-dimensional biological data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Wenwen Min , Taosheng Xu , Xiang Wan , Tsung-Hui Chang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data. NMF requires that each data point is approximated by a convex combination of basis elements. Archetypal analysis (AA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Pierre De Handschutter , Nicolas Gillis , Arnaud Vandaele , Xavier Siebert

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a ubiquitous tool for data analysis. An important variant is the sparse NMF problem which arises when we explicitly require the learnt features to be sparse. A natural measure of sparsity is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Vamsi K. Potluru , Sergey M. Plis , Jonathan Le Roux , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Vince D. Calhoun , Thomas P. Hayes

Fully unsupervised topic models have found fantastic success in document clustering and classification. However, these models often suffer from the tendency to learn less-than-meaningful or even redundant topics when the data is biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Elizaveta Rebrova , Deanna Needell

The aim of this study is to provide a foundation to understand the relationship between non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and non-negative autoencoders enabling proper interpretation and understanding of autoencoder-based alternatives…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-14 Ida Egendal , Rasmus Froberg Brøndum , Marta Pelizzola , Asger Hobolth , Martin Bøgsted