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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

The brain uses positive signals as a means of signaling. Forward interactions in the early visual cortex are also positive, realized by excitatory synapses. Only local interactions also include inhibition. Non-negative matrix factorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mahbod Nouri , David Rotermund , Alberto Garcia-Ortiz , Klaus R. Pawelzik

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown recently to be tractable under the separability assumption, under which all the columns of the input data matrix belong to the convex cone generated by only a few of these columns.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-27 Nicolas Gillis , Robert Luce

This paper provides a theoretical explanation on the clustering aspect of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). We prove that even without imposing orthogonality nor sparsity constraint on the basis and/or coefficient matrix, NMF still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Andri Mirzal , Masashi Furukawa

The paper discusses a pooling mechanism to induce subsampling in graph structured data and introduces it as a component of a graph convolutional neural network. The pooling mechanism builds on the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Davide Bacciu , Luigi Di Sotto

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

The establishment of robust target appearance model over time is an overriding concern in visual tracking. In this paper, we propose an inverse nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) method for robust appearance modeling. Rather than using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Fanghui Liu , Tao Zhou , Keren Fu , Irene Y. H. Gu , Jie Yang

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, NMF, attempts to find a number of archetypal response profiles, or parts, such that any sample profile in the dataset can be approximated by a close profile among these archetypes or a linear combination…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-19 Paul Fogel

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SNMF) has demonstrated to be a powerful method for data clustering. However, SNMF is mathematically formulated as a non-convex optimization problem, making it sensitive to the initialization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Qingfu Zhang

Link prediction infers missing or future relations between graph nodes, based on connection patterns. Scientific literature networks and knowledge graphs are typically large, sparse, and noisy, and often contain missing links between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ryan C. Barron , Maksim E. Eren , Valentin Stanev , Cynthia Matuszek , Boian S. Alexandrov

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

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) is an emerging technique with a wide spectrum of potential applications in data analysis. Mathematically, NMF can be formulated as a minimization problem with nonnegative constraints. This problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Tran Dang Hien , Do Van Tuan , Pham Van At

Recently, many works have demonstrated that Symmetric Non-negative Matrix Factorization~(SymNMF) enjoys a great superiority for various clustering tasks. Although the state-of-the-art algorithms for SymNMF perform well on synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mingjie Li , Hao Kong , Zhouchen Lin

Archetypal analysis and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) are staples in a statisticians toolbox for dimension reduction and exploratory data analysis. We describe a geometric approach to both NMF and archetypal analysis by…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-05 Anil Damle , Yuekai Sun

Matrix factorization (MF) is a simple collaborative filtering technique that achieves superior recommendation accuracy by decomposing the user-item interaction matrix into user and item latent matrices. Because the model typically learns…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kai Sugahara , Kazushi Okamoto

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) methods offer an appealing unsupervised learning method for real-time analysis of streaming spectral data in time-sensitive data collection, such as $\textit{in situ}$ characterization of materials.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Phillip M. Maffettone , Aidan C. Daly , Daniel Olds

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

Factor analysis is broadly used as a powerful unsupervised machine learning tool for reconstruction of hidden features in recorded mixtures of signals. In the case of a linear approximation, the mixtures can be decomposed by a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Filip L. Iliev , Valentin G. Stanev , Velimir V. Vesselinov , Boian S. Alexandrov

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