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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(NMF) is a common used technique in machine learning to extract features out of data such as text documents and images thanks to its natural clustering properties. In particular, it is popular in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Giovanni Barbarino

In this paper, we introduce and provide a short overview of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Several aspects of NMF are discussed, namely, the application in hyperspectral imaging, geometry and uniqueness of NMF solutions,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Nicolas Gillis

We propose a new variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), combining separability and sparsity assumptions. Separability requires that the columns of the first NMF factor are equal to columns of the input matrix, while sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Nicolas Nadisic , Arnaud Vandaele , Jeremy E. Cohen , Nicolas Gillis

In this work we perform some mathematical analysis on non-negative matrix factorizations (NMF) and apply NMF to some imaging and inverse problems. We will propose a sparse low-rank approximation of big positive data and images in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Yat Tin Chow , Kazufumi Ito , Jun Zou

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular data embedding technique. Given a nonnegative data matrix $X$, it aims at finding two lower dimensional matrices, $W$ and $H$, such that $X\approx WH$, where the factors $W$ and $H$ are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Olivier Vu Thanh , Nicolas Gillis

Molecular emission from the galactic and extragalactic interstellar medium (ISM) is often used to determine the physical conditions of the dense gas. However, even from spatially resolved regions, the observed molecules are not necessarily…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-21 Damien de Mijolla , Jonathan Holdship , Serena Viti , Johannes Heyl

Semi-supervised symmetric non-negative matrix factorization (SNMF) utilizes the available supervisory information (usually in the form of pairwise constraints) to improve the clustering ability of SNMF. The previous methods introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuheng Jia , Jia-Nan Li , Wenhui Wu , Ran Wang

In this paper, we design a hierarchical clustering algorithm for high-resolution hyperspectral images. At the core of the algorithm, a new rank-two nonnegative matrix factorizations (NMF) algorithm is used to split the clusters, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Nicolas Gillis , Da Kuang , Haesun Park

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a non-negative matrix $X$ by a product of two non-negative low-rank factor matrices $W$ and $H$. NMF and its extensions minimize either the Kullback-Leibler divergence or the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-17 Naiyang Guan , Dacheng Tao , Zhigang Luo , John Shawe-Taylor

Nowadays, nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) based methods have been widely applied to blind spectral unmixing. Introducing proper regularizers to NMF is crucial for mathematically constraining the solutions and physically exploiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Min Zhao , Tiande Gao , Jie Chen , Wei Chen

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

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely used technique for data representation. Inspired by the expressive power of deep learning, several NMF variants equipped with deep architectures have been proposed. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yuning Qiu , Guoxu Zhou , Kan Xie

We introduce a new method based on nonnegative matrix factorization, Neural NMF, for detecting latent hierarchical structure in data. Datasets with hierarchical structure arise in a wide variety of fields, such as document classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tyler Will , Runyu Zhang , Eli Sadovnik , Mengdi Gao , Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) of the rating matrix has shown to be an effective method to tackle the recommendation problem. In this paper we propose new methods based on the NMF of the rating matrix and we compare them with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Gianna M. Del Corso , Francesco Romani

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is the problem of determining two non-negative low rank factors $W$ and $H$, for the given input matrix $A$, such that $A \approx W H$. NMF is a useful tool for many applications in different domains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Grey Ballard , Haesun Park

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular dimension reduction technique that produces interpretable decomposition of the data into parts. However, this decompostion is not generally identifiable (even up to permutation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 W. Pan , F. Doshi-Velez

This study presents a novel integration of unsupervised learning and decision-making strategies for the advanced analysis of 4D-STEM datasets, with a focus on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) as the primary clustering method. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junhao Cao , Nicolas Folastre , Gozde Oney , Edgar Rauch , Stavros Nicolopoulos , Partha Pratim Das , Arnaud Demortière

Semi-Non-negative Matrix Factorization is a technique that learns a low-dimensional representation of a dataset that lends itself to a clustering interpretation. It is possible that the mapping between this new representation and our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-11 George Trigeorgis , Konstantinos Bousmalis , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Bjoern W. Schuller

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a useful method to extract features from multivariate data, but an important and sometimes neglected concern is that NMF can result in non-unique solutions. Often, there exist a Set of Feasible…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-20 Ragnhild Laursen , Asger Hobolth

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