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Matrix factorization (MF) is extensively used to mine the user preference from explicit ratings in recommender systems. However, the reliability of explicit ratings is not always consistent, because many factors may affect the user's final…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhipeng Wu , Hui Tian , Xuzhen Zhu , Shuo Wang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a widely used tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data as it automatically extracts sparse and meaningful features from a set of nonnegative data vectors. We first illustrate this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-10 Nicolas Gillis

Matrix factorization is a widely used approach for top-N recommendation and collaborative filtering. When implemented on implicit feedback data (such as clicks), a common heuristic is to upweight the observed interactions. This strategy has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alex Ayoub , Samuel Robertson , Dawen Liang , Harald Steck , Nathan Kallus

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has an established reputation as a useful data analysis technique in numerous applications. However, its usage in practical situations is undergoing challenges in recent years. The fundamental factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Mariano Tepper , Guillermo Sapiro

Despite the outstanding performance of deep neural networks in different applications, they are still computationally extensive and require a great number of memories. This motivates more research on reducing the resources required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alireza Bordbar , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

We give an algorithm for computing approximate PSD factorizations of nonnegative matrices. The running time of the algorithm is polynomial in the dimensions of the input matrix, but exponential in the PSD rank and the approximation error.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Amitabh Basu , Michael Dinitz , Xin Li

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

This paper is concerned with the factorization and equivalence problems of multivariate polynomial matrices. We present some new criteria for the existence of matrix factorizations for a class of multivariate polynomial matrices, and obtain…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Dong Lu , Dingkang Wang , Fanghui Xiao

In continuation to our recent work on noncommutative polynomial factorization, we consider the factorization problem for matrices of polynomials and show the following results. (1) Given as input a full rank $d\times d$ matrix $M$ whose…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-01 V. Arvind , Pushkar S. Joglekar

This text investigates relations between two well-known family of algorithms, matrix factorisations and recursive linear filters, by describing a probabilistic model in which approximate inference corresponds to a matrix factorisation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-08 Ömer Deniz Akyıldız

The nonnegative matrix factorization is a widely used, flexible matrix decomposition, finding applications in biology, image and signal processing and information retrieval, among other areas. Here we present a related matrix factorization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-12 David W Dreisigmeyer

Given an undirected graph representing similarities between a set of items and an additive measure evaluating the items, we treat the position of a special subset of items in an ordinal ranking through a collection of combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Boardman

Rearranging the rows or columns of a sparse matrix using an appropriate ordering can significantly reduce fill-ins, i.e., new nonzeros introduced during matrix factorization, decreasing memory usage and runtime. However, finding an ordering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziwei Li , Tao Yuan , Fangfang Liu , Shuzi Niu , Huiyuan Li , Wenjia Wu

We consider the problem of finding the best nonnegative rank-2 approximation of an arbitrary nonnegative matrix. We first revisit the theory, including an explicit parametrization of all possible nonnegative factorizations of a nonnegative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Etna Lindy , Vanni Noferini , Paul Van Dooren

We consider the problem of matrix completion with side information (\textit{inductive matrix completion}). In real-world applications many side-channel features are typically non-informative making feature selection an important part of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Ivan Nazarov , Boris Shirokikh , Maria Burkina , Gennady Fedonin , Maxim Panov

Matrix factorization techniques have been widely used as a method for collaborative filtering for recommender systems. In recent times, different variants of deep learning algorithms have been explored in this setting to improve the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Vaibhav Krishna , Tian Guo , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Low rank matrix factorization is a fundamental building block in machine learning, used for instance to summarize gene expression profile data or word-document counts. To be robust to outliers and differences in scale across features, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Jean-Philippe Vert

We propose an algorithm for solving nonlinear convex programs defined in terms of a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix variable $X$. This algorithm rests on the factorization $X=Y Y^T$, where the number of columns of Y fixes the rank of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-25 M. Journée , F. Bach , P. -A. Absil , R. Sepulchre

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for clustering with strong interpretability. Among general NMF problems, symmetric NMF is a special one that plays an important role in graph clustering where each element measures the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao