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Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SymNMF) is a powerful tool for clustering, which typically uses the $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) method to construct similarity matrix. However, $k$-NN may mislead clustering since the neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Wenlong Lyu , Yuheng Jia

Poisson non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used method to find interpretable "parts-based" decompositions of count data. While many variants of Poisson NMF exist, existing methods assume that the "parts" in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Eric Weine , Peter Carbonetto , Rafael A. Irizarry , Matthew Stephens

Inthischapterwediscusshowtolearnanoptimalmanifoldpresentationto regularize nonegative matrix factorization (NMF) for data representation problems. NMF,whichtriestorepresentanonnegativedatamatrixasaproductoftwolowrank nonnegative matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Xin Gao

When applying nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), the rank parameter is generally unknown. This rank, called the nonnegative rank, is usually estimated heuristically since computing its exact value is NP-hard. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Andersen Ang , Waqas Bin Hamed , Hans De Sterck

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) seeks a low-rank approximation $X \approx UV^T$ with nonnegative factors and is commonly solved using interior methods that enforce feasibility throughout optimization. We show that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiujing Lu , Tonmoy Monsoor , Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh , Kartik Sharma , Vwani Roychowdhury

Sequence model based NLP applications can be large. Yet, many applications that benefit from them run on small devices with very limited compute and storage capabilities, while still having run-time constraints. As a result, there is a need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Urmish Thakker , Jesse Beu , Dibakar Gope , Ganesh Dasika , Matthew Mattina

When solving long-horizon tasks, it is intriguing to decompose the high-level task into subtasks. Decomposing experiences into reusable subtasks can improve data efficiency, accelerate policy generalization, and in general provide promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yiwen Qiu , Yujia Zheng , Kun Zhang

We present a novel graphical framework for modeling non-negative sequential data with hierarchical structure. Our model corresponds to a network of coupled non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) modules, which we refer to as a positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Brian K. Vogel

In an effort to develop topic modeling methods that can be quickly applied to large data sets, we revisit the problem of maximum-likelihood estimation in topic models. It is known, at least informally, that maximum-likelihood estimation in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Peter Carbonetto , Abhishek Sarkar , Zihao Wang , Matthew Stephens

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a prominent technique for the analysis of image databases, text databases and other information retrieval and clustering applications. In this report, we define an exact version of NMF. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2007-09-27 Stephen A. Vavasis

Many modern tools in machine learning and signal processing, such as sparse dictionary learning, principal component analysis (PCA), non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), $K$-means clustering, etc., rely on the factorization of a matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-10 Rémi Gribonval , Rodolphe Jenatton , Francis Bach , Martin Kleinsteuber , Matthias Seibert

We introduce a probabilistic model with implicit norm regularization for learning nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) that is commonly used for predicting missing values and finding hidden patterns in the data, in which the matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jun Lu , Christine P. Chai

Identifying recurring patterns in high-dimensional time series data is an important problem in many scientific domains. A popular model to achieve this is convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF), which extends classic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Anthony Degleris , Ben Antin , Surya Ganguli , Alex H Williams

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

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) models are widely used to recover linearly mixed nonnegative data. When the data is made of samplings of continuous signals, the factors in NMF can be constrained to be samples of nonnegative rational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Cécile Hautecoeur , Lieven De Lathauwer , Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

Understanding the association between dietary patterns and health outcomes, such as the cancer risk, is crucial to inform public health guidelines and shaping future dietary interventions. However, dietary intake data present several…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-10 Blake Hansen , Dafne Zorzetto , Valeria Edefonti , Roberta De Vito

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

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an important unsupervised learning method to extract meaningful features from data. To address the NMF problem within a polynomial time framework, researchers have introduced a separability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Juefei Chen , Longxiu Huang , Yimin Wei

Positive semidefinite matrix factorization (PSDMF) expresses each entry of a nonnegative matrix as the inner product of two positive semidefinite (psd) matrices. When all these psd matrices are constrained to be diagonal, this model is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Dana Lahat , Yanbin Lang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Cédric Févotte

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